Social Value in Practice

Ani Raiden is a Senior Lecturer in HRM at Nottingham Business School, Nottingham Trent University, with a well-established research track record. Ani is a certified Carbon Literacy Trainer, and the principles of sustainability are integral to her research on managing people, quality of working life, social value, and construction and project management. In 2009 Ani co-authored a book on people resourcing with Professors Andy Dainty and Richard Neale, and in 2019 she published a first of its kind text on social value with Martin Loosemore, Andrew King, and Chris Gorse: Social Value in Construction, Routledge. Andrew King runs Soul Value (https://www.soulvalue.co.uk/), a built environment consultancy that helps clients simply and effectively get to grips with social value. He has been involved in construction from a young age, having gained experience working in the family construction business before working as a Quantity Surveyor, running his own surveying business and helping develop a relationship-based supply chain strategy for one of the UK’s largest contractors. His research, lecturing, and writing increasingly focuses on social value and apprenticeships and he is a Workplace Tutor for Quantity Surveying Degree Apprenticeship students at Nottingham Trent University.

"It has long been said that the built environment underpins the fabric of society globally. Delivering social value in practice is thus a critical step. This book offers a promising guide for professionals on how to deal with the conundrums of delivering social value in practice."- Paul W Chan, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands

• Section I – Social Value: The Opportunity 1. Introduction 2. Social value: the drivers, challenges, and opportunities Section II – Co-creating social value 3. Stakeholder analysis and managing relationships with stakeholders 4. Managing people and considering, creating, and delivering social value 5. Degree apprenticeships 6. Social value in procurement 7. Circular economy: delivering social value throughout the supply chain 8. A strategic Social Value Framework - A Consultancy Perspective 9. A client perspective on creating and delivering social value 10. A contractor's perspective on social value Section III – Placemaking: participative and collaborative design, architecture, and planning 11. Co-designing collaborative economies in design and placemaking 12. Architecture and social value: praxis, strategy, and tactics 13. Delivering social value through planning – local authority as a leader and enabler Section IV – Assessing and measuring social value 14. Principles and good practice in assessing and measuring social value 15. Selected tools for assessing and measuring social value 16. Conclusion