Planning and Delivering a Project for Better Participation

How often is success measured by the participation your engagement or consultation project achieves?

For some it is about the numbers that participate, for others it is who you have involved, for good practice it is a combination of the two.

Planning and Delivering a Project for Better Participation is designed to enable those planning and delivering projects to achieve the representation that is needed to ensure a project is both credible and good practice.

Participants will start with considering why better participation is important and what ‘better’ looks like in different scenarios. Through a combination of exercises, deliberation and instruction they will explore:

How we should be thinking about participation
How to reach different groups and profiles of people
What forms of engagement work for different people
What persuades people to participate
What ensures that people will agree to your holding their data and being reinvolved
How we treat participants after the event
How people look at data
Data types (quantitative/qualitative)
Basic statistical techniques for use in the analysis of quantitative data (including weighting, and measurement of error)
Techniques for analysing qualitative data
How to consider, contextualise and combine quantitative and qualitative data
Synthesis and reporting of data (including models of best-practice reporting)

Course information

Benefits for you. Benefits for your organisation.

Students will benefit from exercises and deliberation that challenges the way we think and enables better project design. They will emerge with a clearer idea of the priorities for participation on a project by project basis and how to achieve their organisations engagement objectives.