RSA Revealing Social Capital Policy Roundtable

Rhiannon Jones was invited to participate in the policy roundtable for the RSA.

This closed table discussion involved Revealing Social Capital is a major study into social connection in the UK. It reveals that
friendships across socioeconomic lines have a strong relationship with future earnings and
social mobility.The research was funded by Nuffield Foundation and carried out
by an international consortium including BIT (Behavioural Insights Team), together with
Meta, Stripe Partners, the RSA, Neighbourly Lab, and researchers from Stanford and
Opportunity Insights.

The roundtable brought together experts, policy makers and practitioners from the field of social capital to explore how this evidence can inform policy
decisions and identify interventions and levers that can be designed to improve economic connectedness across the UK.