A report on a three-year project to assess the economic value of public libraries in Victoria. It finds that $36 per capita is spent on public libraries in Victoria each year and that Victorian public libraries return $3.56 for every $1 spent. It uses these findings to argue for further investment in Victorian public libraries.

This framework is a way for organisations to talk about artistic impact internally and with others. It offers a way to capture the value arts and culture create for the society, economy and community.

Meaningful Measurement is a summary of the key research in the area of measuring artistic vibrancy. It looks at: performance measurement in the arts proposed models of performance measurement in the arts the notion of “public value” and the arts the intrinsic impacts of the arts assessing artistic vibrancy, including models and examples “Public value”...

This paper is a critique of the privatisation of the ‘Public Purpose Rule’ in the compulsory acquisition of land in Australia and United States.

In early 2008 the AHRC created an Impact Task Force to provide evidence to Government and other interested parties such as Parliament, the Higher Education sector, industry, the press, and the taxpayer of the value of the research it funds and how it generates value for the UK taxpayer.