2025 Event Reports

• Mental Wellbeing and the Arts

  Can the arts and humanities reduce our mental health crisis?

• UK Energy Policy.

  Will the ongoing failures in energy policy condemn the UK to a dark future in the slow lane?

• Trump and the New World (Dis)order: What next?

  Harkness Fellows discussed the challenges facing us as President Trump completes the early months of his second term.

• “The economic and social determinants of health – can the NHS ever succeed in the current environment?”

  Harkness Fellows considered what creates the challenging social and economic environment in which the NHS has to work.

• ‘Water: what’s gone wrong and what do we do about it?’ 

  Fellows considered the current concerns about water supply and waste disposal.

• ‘Is the current system of higher education sustainable? Can universities or students afford it?’ 

  Challenges in Higher Education. The first in the series of Harkness Centenary Discussion.