This inception report represents the Bennett Institute's independent thinking in the initial stages of the project on the measurement of social and cultural infrastructure, prior to the conducting of project-specific research.
The Bennett Institute for Public Policy has been commissioned by the British Academy to deliver a project on the measurement of cultural and social infrastructure. Through supporting this project, the British Academy is looking to “understand what a measurement framework and approach to social and cultural infrastructure would look like.”
The project forms part of The British Academy’s Social and Cultural Infrastructure programme. This explores the importance of social and cultural infrastructure for society and probes the implications of understanding and measuring its value for policymaking. Of particular interest is how social and cultural infrastructure policy interventions can address deepening spatial inequalities and the range of economic and social shocks, including the ongoing impact of COVID-19 as set out in the British Academy’s COVID Decade report (British Academy, 2021), the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and the cost-of-living crisis.
