Strengths based approaches in public services, public sector commissioning and procurement, social innovation, social investment, co-production, social enterprise, sustainable development, change in complex systems, participatory action research. 

VIE offers research and evaluation services relating to social value, including SROI analyses. VIE has completed SROI analyses for Housing Associations, Charities, Social Enterprises, NHS Trusts, Local Authorities and a University. VIE has experience of working with services addressing homelessness (including rough sleeping), alcohol misuse, learning disability, mental illness, and isolated older people.  VIE specialises in applying SROI principles to improving the identification of opportunities for value creation and appraising projects and has a track record of collaborating with other practitioners and across disciplines.  VIE extracts and applies learning from SROI analyses and the SROI principles and approaches to relevant contexts- e.g. advice on the feasibility study for a Social Impact Bond, development of new commissioning approaches in the public sector, development of corporate social investment, and building in monitoring and learning to projects and approaches.