Biography
A Senior Policy Fellow at the London School of Economics specialising in research into social cost benefit analysis, homelessness, inequality, and regeneration. Wide senior policy management experience in central government as Senior Civil Servant, senior operational management experience in local government, senior academic research and policy advice roles, and a background in front line experience in housing and homelessness housing associations and the third sector. Recent research includes social cost benefit analysis of the benefits of wheelchair adapted housing for a national housing association and pressure group; an Independent Review of Krakow Metropolitan Area 2030 Social and Green Strategy, for the European Investment Bank; and a social cost benefit analysis of extending support to domestic abuse victims with no recourse to pubic funds, for the Domestic Abuse Commissioner.
Bert Provan's current research interests are:
- Housing and homelessness
- Social cost benefit analysis
- French and European regeneration policies
Bert's latest projects include:
- The Social and Economic Value of Wheelchair User Homes (2023) Bert Provan, Laura Lane
- Independent Review of Krakow Metropolitan Area 2030 Social and Green Strategy – Report to the European Investment Bank (2023). Bert Provan, Aleksandra Jadach-Sepiolo, Neil Lee, Max Herbertson and Kath Scanlon
- Cost-benefit analysis of extending support to domestic abuse victims with NRPF: A technical report for the Domestic Abuse Commissioner (2022). Kath Scanlon, Bert Provan, et al.
- Oasis Community Housing: Review of change through COVID and beyond (2021). Report on options for new models of community focused wholistic provision