Public Value: How can it be measured, managed and grown?
June 2019
This paper brings together views from Nesta on better ways of mapping and measuring public value.
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Jonathan Breckon
Jonathan Breckon has been Director of the Alliance for Useful Evidence since it was created at Nesta in 2012. Formerly Director of Policy and Public Affairs at the Arts and Humanities Research Council, he has had policy roles at the Royal Geographical Society, the British Academy, and Universities UK. He is a member of the Cabinet Office What Works Council and a Director of the Department for Education’s What Works for Children’s Social Care.
His research and professional interests cover politics and psychology, particularly the ever-awkward relationship between evidence and policy-making. He is a Visiting Professor at Strathclyde University and a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at King’s College London’s Policy Institute. When not at work, or being ordered around by two young children, he wastes time protecting his family’s veg garden from slugs, or finding excuses to go sailing in the Solent.
jonathan.breckon@nesta.org.uk
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