On 14th November 2014, members of ARMA (Association of Research Managers and Administrators) were invited to a study tour at the AHRC offices in Swindon. The day provided ARMA members with the opportunity to learn more about the AHRC, and upcoming developments of interest. The day included presentations on:
- The AHRC’s 10th Anniversary activities
- The AHRC's new area of Business Processes and Analysis
- European Funding – Horizon 2020 and HERA
- The Knowledge Exchange Hubs: lessons and legacy
- Research Outcomes and Researchfish
The AHRC launched a major new funding initiative in modern languages: the Open World Research Initiative (OWRI) on12th May 2014 in London. It provided an opportunity for academics and partners to learn more about the initiative and to network with other organisations, prior to releasing a call for Expressions of Interest. These are the slides from the launch event.
On Wednesday 29th January, the Doctoral Training Partnerships and Centres for Doctoral Training were launched at a conference at the University of Nottingham.
A town meeting was held at the British Library to launch the call for The Academic Book of the Future. This call, in association with the British Library, relates to the AHRC's Digital Transformations in the Arts and Humanities Theme. The call’s aim is to explore the future of the academic book in the context of open access publishing and the digital revolution. A single consortium will be funded through this scheme, with total project costs up to a value of £450k FEC, with AHRC providing 80% of the costs, and lasting up to 24 months from October 2014.
A town meeting was held at the British Library to launch the call for The Academic Book of the Future. This call, in association with the British Library, relates to the AHRC's Digital Transformations in the Arts and Humanities Theme. The call’s aim is to explore the future of the academic book in the context of open access publishing and the digital revolution. A single consortium will be funded through this scheme, with total project costs up to a value of £450k FEC, with AHRC providing 80% of the costs, and lasting up to 24 months from October 2014.
A town meeting was held at the British Library to launch the call for The Academic Book of the Future. This call, in association with the British Library, relates to the AHRC's Digital Transformations in the Arts and Humanities Theme. The call’s aim is to explore the future of the academic book in the context of open access publishing and the digital revolution. A single consortium will be funded through this scheme, with total project costs up to a value of £450k FEC, with AHRC providing 80% of the costs, and lasting up to 24 months from October 2014.
On Wednesday 29th January, the Doctoral Training Partnerships and Centres for Doctoral Training were launched at a conference at the University of Nottingham.
On Wednesday 29th January, the Doctoral Training Partnerships and Centres for Doctoral Training were launched at a conference at the University of Nottingham.
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On 14th November 2014, members of ARMA (Association of Research Managers and Administrators) were invited to a study tour at the AHRC offices in Swindon. The day provided ARMA members with the opportunity to learn more about the AHRC, and upcoming developments of interest. The day included presentations on:
- The AHRC’s 10th Anniversary activities
- The AHRC's new area of Business Processes and Analysis
- European Funding – Horizon 2020 and HERA
- The Knowledge Exchange Hubs: lessons and legacy
- Research Outcomes and Researchfish
The AHRC launched a major new funding initiative in modern languages: the Open World Research Initiative (OWRI) on12th May 2014 in London. It provided an opportunity for academics and partners to learn more about the initiative and to network with other organisations, prior to releasing a call for Expressions of Interest. These are the slides from the launch event.
On Wednesday 29th January, the Doctoral Training Partnerships and Centres for Doctoral Training were launched at a conference at the University of Nottingham.
A town meeting was held at the British Library to launch the call for The Academic Book of the Future. This call, in association with the British Library, relates to the AHRC's Digital Transformations in the Arts and Humanities Theme. The call’s aim is to explore the future of the academic book in the context of open access publishing and the digital revolution. A single consortium will be funded through this scheme, with total project costs up to a value of £450k FEC, with AHRC providing 80% of the costs, and lasting up to 24 months from October 2014.
A town meeting was held at the British Library to launch the call for The Academic Book of the Future. This call, in association with the British Library, relates to the AHRC's Digital Transformations in the Arts and Humanities Theme. The call’s aim is to explore the future of the academic book in the context of open access publishing and the digital revolution. A single consortium will be funded through this scheme, with total project costs up to a value of £450k FEC, with AHRC providing 80% of the costs, and lasting up to 24 months from October 2014.
A town meeting was held at the British Library to launch the call for The Academic Book of the Future. This call, in association with the British Library, relates to the AHRC's Digital Transformations in the Arts and Humanities Theme. The call’s aim is to explore the future of the academic book in the context of open access publishing and the digital revolution. A single consortium will be funded through this scheme, with total project costs up to a value of £450k FEC, with AHRC providing 80% of the costs, and lasting up to 24 months from October 2014.
On Wednesday 29th January, the Doctoral Training Partnerships and Centres for Doctoral Training were launched at a conference at the University of Nottingham.
On Wednesday 29th January, the Doctoral Training Partnerships and Centres for Doctoral Training were launched at a conference at the University of Nottingham.
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1. Evidencing Value in Economics
(and the role of behavioural sciences and statistics)
Daniel Fujiwara
London School of Economics
d.f.fujiwara@lse.ac.uk
2. Economics
• ‘Value’ has a clear definition in economics
• Welfare is central – it is the ultimate intrinsic
good = Welfarism.
• Basis of cost-benefit analysis, cost-
effectiveness analysis etc
Welfare
3. Value theory
• Value of a good = the amount of money that
induces the equivalent change in welfare for the
individual. (Indifference point)
• Compensating Surplus and
Equivalent Surplus
• Related to WTP and WTA
4. So what is ‘welfare’? (part 1)
• Economists traditionally measure this as the
satisfaction of one’s (rational) preferences.
• Neuroscience – increasing evidence that some
notion of welfare underlies (and predicts) our
decisions.
• Use Revealed Preference or Stated
Preference valuation methods.
5. Stated preferences and cultural value
• Queensland Government (2009). WTP of A$20 pa
to support Queensland Museum.
• Thompson et al. (2002). WTP of US$100+ for an
increase in government-funded arts
performances in Kentucky.
• But, Behavioural science shows that preferences
can often be misinformed and inconsistent (don’t
align with welfare)
6. So what is ‘welfare’? (part 2)
• Driven by behavioral economics, economists
turning to self-report measures.
• Subjective wellbeing can consist in life
satisfaction (evaluative), happiness (hedonic),
worthwhile (eudemonic).
7. Wellbeing valuation and cultural value
• Fujiwara (2013); Fujiwara et al. (2013):
- Value of cinema visit = £12
- Value of participating in arts = £1,500 pa (dance, arts, music,
photography)
- Value of being audience to cultural events= £2,000 pa
Policy intervention
(cultural
engagement)
Money
Wellbeing
8. Causality is key
• We’ve measured value, but how do we know
we have created it?
Econometrics Statistics
9. Maryland Evidence Scale (example)
• Public policy institutions moving towards ranking
systems (implicitly or explicitly) for internal validity.
• Must also remember external validity.
Editor's Notes
Discuss qualitative approaches: problems due to:- Social desirability in answers.- Cognitive dissonance.- Impossible to forecast counterfactual- Non-random small samples – with no known statistical properties.Need to comply with Government thinking and methods.