17 August 2016

This major grant will allow for the dissemination of Prof Quattrone’s project, which will both map onto and expand his present research on reporting and governance regarding programmes enacted by the UK government.

Congratulations to Prof Paolo Quattrone, Co-Director of the Centre for Accounting and Society (CAS), on being awarded an ESRC Impact Grant. The project Maieutic Governance and Reporting – Accelerating the impact in UK Governmental Major Programmes will be undertaken in collaboration with the Infrastructure and Project Authority at the UK Cabinet Office.

It aims to map and extend the impact of Prof Paolo Quattrone’s current research on novel forms of reporting and governance onto a range of Major Programmes run by the UK government. Through Quattrone’s teaching with the UK Cabinet’s Major Projects Leadership Academy at Oxford, over 320 UK senior civil servants have already been exposed to this research and with this grant, it is expected that this number will grow. Mapping impact will help to systematize lessons learnt and share them across the whole government’s portfolio of programmes, thus enhancing impact, and to develop an index to assess the quality of decision-making in government’s programmes.

Congratulations on such a fantastic achievement Paolo.