Varya Shaw

I recently wrote an article about research by the Centre for Innovation in Health Management into how NHS leaders feel about the white paper, Liberating the NHS. Not sure if I can post it up here because of copyright. But it was utterly fascinating - the usual CIHM style of using language and metaphors well to give a really vivid, gripping description of what they found. Basically these leaders were split within themselves over what was going to happen because it just wasn't clear. Not in a vague sense - in a quite profound sense of 'what on earth are they up to?' But would add some of the leaders CIHM spoke to were pretty optimistic, at least with one half of their two minds! Find more about the report on the CIHM website here.

How will the Big Society affect the cultural diversity of museum volunters? Probably favourably - as long as the money is there, which we know it probably won't be. Read the article here.

Read to the end and this shows how museums can change young people's lives, and their children's lives, featured on Untold London . Young Londoners track Victorian Explorer

This is an article about capturing social value I wrote for for the Centre for Innovation in Health Management , published in the summer. Apparently policy makers have been pretty interested in social value measures since the credit crunch - with less money around, it helps to know which projects are most likely to succeed. More relevant than ever since the spending review.

Just wrote this for Untold London - lovely, Big Society-ish youth participation project in museums. More to come. Journeys into Diversity at London Transport Museum