This conference will discuss priorities and next steps for measuring the value of culture and heritage capital in the UK.

It is taking place following the launch of the Government’s Valuing Culture and Heritage Capital: A Framework Towards Informing Decision Making report, as it looks to develop a framework to enable a formal approach to the valuation of culture and heritage assets, and to support an evidence-based approach to future decision making.

We are pleased to include keynote sessions with Lord Mendoza, Commissioner for Cultural Recovery and Renewal and Provost of Oriel College, Oxford University – as well as from Hasan Bakhshi, Centre Director, Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre and Executive Director, Creative Economy and Data Analytics, Nesta; Kate Mavor, Chief Executive, English Heritage; and Professor David Throsby, Professor of Economics, Macquarie University, Sydney.

There will also be a keynote contribution from Alan Law, Deputy Chief Executive, Natural England, on what can learned from approach to measuring the economic value of natural capital when determining policy on ecosystem protection.

The agenda will bring out latest thinking on:

• practicalities, processes and outcomes – challenges of measuring culture and heritage value across a diverse sector, the role in decisions on spending and wider policy, and how to evaluate outcomes
• priorities and impact – strategies for building stakeholder and public engagement, promoting inclusion and accessibility, and driving local economic growth
• best practice – learning from the use of studies in other sectors, such as the recent Dasgupta Economics of Biodiversity Review, and from the processes of informing policy and budget decisions
• the tools for decision-making – developing the research base behind the UK’s creative economy, strategies for collaboration, priorities for support, and what is needed from technology innovation