Health and Wellbeing

How do we improve the quality of people’s lives and tackle the great global challenges of our times? Join leading economist Mariana Mazzucato and the co-author of the best-selling The Spirit Level, Kate Pickett.

Learn about the history of health inequality in Britain over the past 2,000 years and discover if we can do better in the future.

Our expert panel discusses how music interventions aim to improve mental health and social relations for youth considered ‘at risk’.

What lessons can we take forward from our time in lockdown to ensure business, culture, and learning become more inclusive for people with chronic and long-term conditions? Join writer and blogger Pippa Stacey.

Using humorous insights from her past and present, multi-award-winning comedy and drama writer Georgia Pritchett reflects on a life lived anxiously.

Should music intervention be used more widely to improve public health? Hear the views of our expert panel.

Beauty expert Katie Service breaks down the big issues facing the skincare industry today, from recyclables and vegan or cruelty-free products to ‘dupes’ and toxic ingredients.

The health benefits of music for our own health and wellbeing are now widely-recognised. But how can those providing music for others care for themselves? Hear the views of our expert panel.

Neuroscientist Dean Burnett explores why mental health problems are so widespread, and why there is still so much confusion and stigma surrounding them.

Olivier Urbain of the Min-On Music Research Institute, Tokyo, explores the intersection between musicking and peacebuilding.

Poet Molly McCully Brown explores living within and beyond the limits of a body - in her case, one shaped since birth by cerebral palsy, a permanent and often painful movement disorder.

Join author Madeleine Bunting as she explores the value and humanity of care, and offers a clarion call for change.

An expert panel discusses what remains to be done for girls and women to gain full possession of their sexual and reproductive rights, and the expected impacts on their health and wellbeing.