What are Unintended Consequences?

ESG Financial Markets

Social Impact Investment & Social Lending Introduction

In this video, Stuart provides an introduction to social investment and explains what social investment is, the difference between loans and grants and how charities sustain loans and credit.

ESG Financial Markets

Measuring Social Impact & a Social Impact Fund Case Study

In the second part of Stuart's introduction to social investment, he covers the different types of social investor and the approaches to measuring social impact.

Social Responsibility

Social Inequalities caused by the COVID-19 Pandemic

This video will discuss the social impacts caused by the COVID-19 Pandemic. Adrian outlines the impacts we've all felt, but digs deeper and explains that it has been far from an equal impact across the country.

Social Responsibility

UK Regional Inequality

The purpose of this video is to show how unequal the UK is as a whole, being one of the most economically unbalanced countries out of the OECD’s 38 advanced economies. We will also see what this actually means in practice when it comes to the likes of income, education, health and life expectancy.

Social Responsibility

Mitigating UK Regional Inequality

In the second video on regional inequalities in the United Kingdom, we discussed how the UK has become so unequal and what is being done to tackle the inequality.

Social Responsibility

Good Intentions and Bad Outcomes

Trying to make improvements isn’t as easy. In fact, fixing a problem can occasionally make things worse. But why? The root of the failure is often in missing how parts of a system are connected. In this video, Paul covers how impacts can vary, depending on the size of the system and why some projects made their problems worse - not better.

Social Responsibility

The Three Categories of Unintended Consequences

In this video, Paul talks us through the three main categories of unintended consequences, i.e., "Unexpected benefits", "Unexpected drawbacks" and "Perverse results"

Social Responsibility

Introduction to Sustainable Supply Chains

How do the items you use, eat and wear get made? Unfortunately, bad ESG practice in industry supply chains is more likely to be the rule than the exception. In the introductory video of this pathway, Kate Larsen guides us through what a supply chain is and how you can judge the E, the S and the G parts of a supply chain.