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  • A Definitional framework for Social Value Creation: Perspectives of Private, Public and Third sectors in the UK

    Since the implementation of the Social Value Act, public authorities need to consider social and environmental value, in addition to economic value, in public contracting processes. However, despite the significant attention by academics and policy-makers to social value creation, there remains a paucity of research that seeks to identify and quantify what constitutes social value (Emerson, 2013). There is an urgent need to develop a framework of social value that could be used by the private, public and third sectors to understand the impact of their actions and to shape future policy in relation to social value.


  • Richard Hazenberg

    Institute Director – ISII

  • Conferences/seminars presented:

    • Q Methodology Conference (14-17th September 2015)
    • ‘Eco food supply chains: Exploring industrial ecosystems to minimize food waste and maximize social benefits’, Sao Paulo, Brazil (24th to 26th August 2015)
    • The Inaugural Northampton Business School Research Conference (18th June 2015)
    • Transfer seminar (23rd April 2015)
    • Images of Research, University of Northampton (Poster on 4th Feb 2015)
    • 6th International Social Innovation Research Conference (ISIRC14) (3rd September 2014)
    • Annual Postgraduate Research Conference (26th June 2014) 
    • Northampton Business School seminars (Feb 2014)
    • International Public Health Seminar, National School of Public Health, Rennes, France (Poster in June 2008)

  • Payal Jain possesses a double master’s joint degree: Masters in European Public Health sponsored by the European Commission from the University of Sheffield, UK (2007) and Jageillonian University, Krakow, Poland (2008). Her undergraduate degree was in Sociology and Public Administration. She has worked in the public and third sectors in the UK, France, Poland and New Zealand for four years prior to embarking on her doctoral study. Presently, she is pursuing her doctoral studies in social value creation at the University of Northampton. Her areas of interest include: sociology of health and illness, social and business entrepreneurship, social and public policy, and applied sociology in various industrial sectors.