Dan Vale

Dan leads the Young Foundation's major project mapping unmet and emerging needs and joined the Young Foundation in October 2007.

This study will deploy a number of techniques to uncover hidden and emerging detriment in society, focusing on the most hard to reach groups and individuals. He is particularly interested in utilising new ways to understand the processes of marginalisation and the psychological and behavioural aspects of need. The work will look to pioneer innovative ways of using large scale quantitative data with imaginative local qualitative research to profile social need in a new way.

He has nearly twenty years experience of policy, campaigning, research, user participation, community development and social work. He was most recently Head of Social Policy at Citizens Advice and has previously worked for RNIB, a mental health NGO, a special needs housing association and for the Sandinistas.

Dan has conducted research in the fields of advice need, stigma and discrimination, blindness, education, poverty, health and social care and has worked in Poland building civic capacity and developing evidence-based policy. He has a degree in PPE from Wadham College, Oxford University.

Selected bibliography:

• Equally Advised? Discrimination and advice in EU states. Citizens Advice International, 2007.
• The Value of Advice. Citizens Advice, 2006
• Citizens Advice: Solving problems, proposing solutions. Citizens Advice, 2005.
• Manifesto for Advice. Citizens Advice, 2004
• Hanging on the Telephone: CAB evidence into the effectiveness of call centres. Citizens Advice, 2004
• Unseen: neglect, isolation and household poverty amongst older people with sight loss. RNIB, 2004
• Changing the way we think about blindness: myth and reality. RNIB, 2002
• Get the Picture: making television accessible to blind and partially sighted people. RNIB, 2002
• Improving Lives: priorities in health and social care for blind and partially sighted people. RNIB, 2001
• Shaping the Future: the experiences of blind and partially sighted children and young people in the UK. RNIB, 2000

Contact

dan.vale(AT)youngfoundation.org or call 020 8980 6263