What is community engagement Maggie Laidlaw Veitch Cooper

What is community engagement? Maggie Laidlaw Veitch. Cooper Ltd The University of Edinburgh

Community engagement is often thought of as meaning… • Consulting ØInforming ØSurveys ØQuestionnaires ØInterviews = Informing people, and asking feedback on pre-designed/pre-decided issues & questions …. But often results in someone outside wider community making the decisions on behalf of community. 30/10/2020 Maggie Laidlaw. Veitch. Cooper Ltd 2

SPECTRUM OF PARTICIPATION INFORM Public Participation goal Promise to the public Example techniques 30/10/2020 Increasing level of public impact CONSULT INVOLVE COLLABORATE EMPOWER To obtain public feedback on analysis/decisions etc To work directly with public throughout process to ensure public concerns are understood & considered To partner with the public in each aspect of decision To place final decision-making in hands of public We will keep you informed, listen to you & acknowledge your concerns & aspirations – and provide feedback on how your input has influenced decisions We will work with you to ensure concerns/aspirations are directly reflected…& provide feedback on how your input has influenced our decisions We will look to you for advice/innovation in formulating solutions & incorporate your advice/recommendatio ns to the maximum possible effect extent We will implement what you decide Fact sheets Websites Social media newsletters Public comment Focus groups Surveys Public meetings Workshops Deliberate polling Citizen's advisory committee Participatory decision making events Citizens’ juries Charrettes Forums Mini publics Ballots Inform public with balanced in objective information = assist understanding http: //rethinkurban. com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Spectrum. png Maggie Laidlaw. Veitch. Cooper Ltd 3

Types of engagement Newsletters Social Media Websites Presentations Purpose Share information Consultation and feedback - however decisions are often made by others. Surveys Questionnaires Interviews Consultation and feedback: people share their experiences and seek to understand where others are coming from - however decisions are often made outside of focus group. Focus Group Forums Creative Methods Charrettes Citizens’ Juries 30/10/2020 Allow people to identify and provide solutions to problems and often keeps communities engaged in longer term. Provides more democratic solutions. Maggie Laidlaw. Veitch. Cooper Ltd = Lengthy – sometimes taking place over days 4

The Imagine Project – written evidence 2017 Imagining better policy: Evidence published by House of Lords Select Committee Collaborative methods of engagement allow communities to be empowered and to collectively construct new futures, and through the process, make visible new kinds of knowledge that can be articulated and heard in new ways. http: //data. parliament. uk/writtenevidence/committeeevidence. svc/evidencedocument/citizenship-and-civic-engagementcommittee/citizenship-and-civic-engagement/written/69778. html 30/10/2020 Maggie Laidlaw. Veitch. Cooper Ltd 5

Co-producing research through use of poetry SMART Fintry Christmas event 2017 ‘Imagining different futures’ with young people Walking interviews & conversations Co-producing research with young women across Forth Valley using poetry Co-producing research with Scot. Gov and Scottish pharmacists 30/10/2020 ‘Imagining different futures’ with young people Maggie Laidlaw. Veitch. Cooper Ltd 6 in Involving communities in deliberation: A study of 3 citizens’ juries on onshore wind farms Scotland (see links on slide 11)

Denny 3 -Day Charrette A charrette is an intensive planning session where citizens, designers and others collaborate on a vision. - Coming together to explore ideas and talk about how they might realise them. 30/10/2020 https: //vimeo. com/146144720#t=139 s Maggie Laidlaw. Veitch. Cooper Ltd 7

Inform [Research] [Converse] Consult Involve Crafty Hookers Knitting group – participating in Denny Charrette poetry workshop 2015 Collaborate Participatory and collaborative types of engagement can be transformative for individuals, groups, and whole communities. Anne Rathbone – Co-ordinator, Boing, Brighton Empower 30/10/2020 Maggie Laidlaw. Veitch. Cooper Ltd Public engagement beyond public lectures! A training programme for researchers’ | Designed and delivered by Wendy Faulkner & Oliver Escobar | Beltane Network Oct 2015 8

Flows of meaning: people share their stories and seek to understand ‘where others are coming from’ Collaborative: everyone has something to contribute, experiential knowledge as well as specialist Carries a strong ethic of inclusiveness and mutual respect Makes a difference: … Image & Text from: ‘Public engagement beyond public lectures! A training programme for researchers’ | Designed and delivered by Wendy Faulkner & Oliver Escobar | Beltane Network Oct 2015 30/10/2020 Maggie Laidlaw. Veitch. Cooper Ltd 9

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Further Information: Slide 1: visual summary created by Tony Mc. Kay over the three days of the Denny Design Charrette Citizens Juries • http: //www. climatexchange. org. uk/files/5614/3213/1663/Citizens_Juries_-_Full_Report. pdf • http: //www. climatexchange. org. uk/files/5814/3220/2145/Oliver_Escobar_presentation_Citizens_Jurie s_event_20_May_20151. pdf Beltane Network: Public Engagement Network • http: //www. beltanenetwork. org/ • http: //senseaboutscience. org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Public-engagement-a-practicalguide. pdf • http: //www. beltanenetwork. org/resources/online-toolbox/ Charrette Scotland http: //www. gov. scot/Topics/Built-Environment/Aand. P/Projects/SSCICharrette. Series Connected Communities: • https: //connected-communities. org/ Imagine: • http: //www. imaginecommunity. org. uk/ SCDC: Community development and co-production • http: //www. scdc. org. uk/media/resources/what-we-do/policy-andpractice/Community%20 development%20 and%20 co-production. pdf What Works Scotland • http: //whatworksscotland. ac. uk/ 30/10/2020 Maggie Laidlaw. Veitch. Cooper Ltd 11

Thank- you Contact: Maggie Laidlaw maggie@veitchcooper. com maggie. laidlaw@ed. ac. uk http: //www. sociology. ed. ac. uk/people/research_students 2/maggie_laidlaw 30/10/2020 Maggie Laidlaw. Veitch. Cooper Ltd 12