Dr Bert Provan CASE, Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE, London School of Economics

Biography

Dr Bert Provan's current research interests are:

Urban regeneration and poverty reduction in the UK, France and the wider EU
Energy efficiency, the green economy and their role within city renewal
Housing and homelessness, particularly in the context of current welfare benefit changes
Knowledge management and research impact

Bert's latest projects include:

Impact of welfare reform on social housing tenants and local communities
Social return on investment impact of regeneration and anti-poverty programmes
Effectiveness of programmes to tackle rough sleeping in inner London
Knowledge management for the Social Policy and Distributional Outcomes programme

Latest

CASEreports

Extending the "move-on" period for newly granted refugees: Analysis of impacts and costs

18 February 2020

Bert Provan

This report considers the impact of extending the "move-on" period (currently 28 days) which is allowed to refugees, once they are awarded Leave to Remain in the UK. This question arises for those refugees who were in re... Read more...

CASEreports

Estate Regeneration and Social Value

22 August 2019

Anne Power and Bert Provan

Home Group is committed to assessing the social value to low income communities of regeneration and upgrading. This research was commissioned by Home Group and closely links to their recently developed “Customer Promise”... Read more...

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Never Just a Number: Evaluating the impact of a holistic approach to UK poverty

23 October 2018

Ellie Benton, Laura Lane, Anne Power and Bert Provan

The core aim of the research is to show the social value of CAP’s work in tackling poverty and related problems of debt, joblessness, dependency, and low capacity. The evaluation covers the four main strands of CAP’s app... Read more...

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Overcoming the Stigma of Social Housing: Can social housing rebuild its reputation?

14 March 2018

Anne Power and Bert Provan

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No Place Like An Accessible Home: Quality of life and opportunity for disabled people with accessible housing needs

28 July 2016

Tania Burchardt, Bert Provan and Ellie Suh

Habinteg Housing and Papworth Trust commissioned CASE at LSE to report, primarily in relation to working age disabled people, on: 1. The extent of need for housing which has accessible features (for example a stair lift... Read more...

Social Policy in a Cold Climate Research Working Papers

Pulling in the Same Direction? Economic and Social Outcomes in London and the North of England Since the Recession

13 July 2016

Polina Obolenskaya, Ruth Lupton and Bert Provan

The Social Policy in a Cold Climate research programme had two major components: first an analysis of the social policies and spending of Labour and Coalition governments from 1997 to 2015, and theirimpacts on poverty, i... Read more...

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Saint-Étienne City Story

08 June 2016

Bert Provan

La Fabrique de la Cité, a French foundation sponsored by Vinci, funded LSE Housing and Communities to produce seven updated city reports on Leipzig and six other European cities, following our initial reports in 2007. Th... Read more...

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Lille City Story

08 June 2016

Bert Provan

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Moving on without moving out: the impacts of regeneration on the Rayners Lane Estate

06 May 2016

Bert Provan, Alice Belotti and Anne Power

Rayners Lane is an estate in the London Borough of Harrow, comprising 591 homes at the point of transfer from council ownership to Home Group, following a ballot of tenants. Tenants were involved in planning the redevel... Read more...