Applying Social Return on Investment (SROI) to the built environment

Watson, Kelly; Whitley, Tim

doi:10.1080/09613218.2016.1223486

Cited by 49 publications

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“…Of these, it is worth noting that Hall et al (2015) is perhaps incorrectly categorised, since it is explicitly focused on accounting aspects and even includes the word "accounting" in the title of the paper. The final three articles are published in journals with more distinct professional subject domains of public health (Leck et al, 2014;Raeburn et al, 2015) and the built environment (Watson & Whitley, 2016).…”

Section: Methods and Findingsmentioning

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Moving on from Scaling Up: Further Progress in Developing Social Impact Measurement in the Third Sector

Dey

Gibbon

2017

Social and Environmental Accountability Journal

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In 2011, we published an article inSEAJ[Gibbon, J., and C. Dey. 2011. “Developments in Social Impact Measurement in the Third Sector: Scaling Up or Dumbing Down?”Social and Environmental Accountability Journal31 (1): 63–72] that explored various issues surrounding the measurement of social impact in Third Sector Organisations. In the little over five years since it was published, we have been surprised to discover that our article has emerged as one ofSEAJ’s most cited (and downloaded) publications. This prompted us to take a closer look at where our paper was being cited and obtain further insight as to why and how the paper has been used across a variety of fields, within both theoretical and empirical studies, by both academics and practitioners. Relevant to both researchers and practitioners, our review provides a useful snapshot that brings together a broad literature to explore how and where social impact measurement for social enterprise and values-based organisations is developing

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Section: Methods and Findingsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Moving on from Scaling Up: Further Progress in Developing Social Impact Measurement in the Third Sector

Dey

Gibbon

2017

Social and Environmental Accountability Journal

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“…Indeed, weighting systems have been adopted, often with the support of steering groups of experts and/or thorough Analytic Hierarchic Process (AHP) [43,44]. Although some critiques emerged regarding the multicriteria methodology with respect to the Social Impact Assessment methods [45], the former is still a valuable and diffuse way to deal with a methodologically systematic and replicable assessment of qualitative and quantitative factors.…”

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Healthy and Sustainable Hospital Evaluation—A Review of POE Tools for Hospital Assessment in an Evidence-Based Design Framework

Brambilla

Capolongo

2019

Buildings

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Hospitals are complex, high-performance systems that demand continuous quality improvement. Several instruments evaluate the organizational or clinical qualities but very few focus on the built environment. The purpose of this paper is to compare and review the recent tools able to assess the hospital built environment and test how they measure health, sustainability, or both through Post Occupancy Evaluation (POE). A literature review has been conducted in the field of hospital quality assessment and 13 POE instruments have been included and analyzed through Ulrich’s Evidence-Based Design (EBD) framework. The percentage and the content of health or sustainability-related criteria have been compared and further discussed. Health related criteria the most recent tools are used three times more than in the tools developed in the nineties. The most used EBD criteria are safety enhancement (n = 131; 14%) and visual environment (n = 119; 13%). Although sustainability remains a relevant issue, today, growing attention is dedicated to the impact of built environment on occupant’s health. Further investigation is needed to understand the effectiveness of those instruments in practice.

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“…Assigning a monetary value to wellbeing outcomes is anticipated to enhance transferability compared to typical post- occupancy evaluation summaries, facilitating the dissemination and implementation of findings within the design and construction industry 30 .…”

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“…An SROI analysis can be retrospective or prospective, encompass the value generated by an entire organisation or focus on specific programmes or projects. It is one of the most developed social impact methodologies, being designed to measure the outcomes of an intervention, rather than solely tracking outputs 30 .…”

Section: Valuation Using Sroimentioning

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Establishing psychological wellbeing metrics for the built environment

Watson

2018

Building Services Engineering Research and Technology

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Abstract:The business case for wellbeing is now an influential agenda in the built environment. Increasing demand for user-centred environments means evidence-based design proven to deliver wellbeing outcomes for end users is essential. The challenge is to effectively capture and disseminate this evidence to a range of expert and non-expert audiences. Further, being able to make the link between increased wellbeing and an increase in the productivity, or performance, of building users requires new definitions and methods. An innovative wellbeing valuation approach is presented, consisting of a multi-item scale to measure and quantify the wellbeing outcomes experienced by building users, and impact reporting techniques using Social Return on Investment (SROI) to produce transferable, monetised evaluation metrics. This combination has the capability to communicate the value of design in a powerful and accessible manner. Wellbeing valuation metrics represent an opportunity to develop new userdriven knowledge and shape the built environment in positive ways.http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/bsert Establishing psychological wellbeing metrics for the built environment Abstract The business case for wellbeing is now an influential agenda in the built environment. Increasing demand for user-centred environments means evidence-based design proven to deliver wellbeing outcomes for end users is essential. The challenge is to effectively capture and disseminate this evidence to a range of expert and non-expert audiences. Further, being able to make the link between increased wellbeing and an increase in the productivity, or performance, of building users requires new definitions and methods. An innovative wellbeing valuation approach is presented, consisting of a multi-item scale to measure and quantify the wellbeing outcomes experienced by building users, and impact reporting techniques using Social Return on Investment (SROI) to produce transferable, monetised evaluation metrics. This combination has the capability to communicate the value of design in a powerful and accessible manner. Wellbeing valuation metrics represent an opportunity to develop new user-driven knowledge and shape the built environment in positive ways.

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Applying Social Return on Investment (SROI) to the built environment

Cited by 49 publications

References 23 publications

Moving on from Scaling Up: Further Progress in Developing Social Impact Measurement in the Third Sector

Moving on from Scaling Up: Further Progress in Developing Social Impact Measurement in the Third Sector

Healthy and Sustainable Hospital Evaluation—A Review of POE Tools for Hospital Assessment in an Evidence-Based Design Framework

Establishing psychological wellbeing metrics for the built environment

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