Part 2: Types of community engagement
One key consideration when you鈥檙e designing your engagement activities is how you want to involve communities and to what extent. The provides a framework that may help you to consider the most appropriate level of engagement for your project. The National Coordinating Centre for Public Engagement (NCCPE) has also for public engagement which can help you consider what purpose public engagement has for you. The table below integrates the IAP2 Spectrum of Public Participation with the NCCPE purposes of public engagement:
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IAP2 Spectrum |
Inform |
Consult |
Involve |
Collaborate |
Empower |
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NCCPE purposes |
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When designing your public engagement activities you should:
- Consider which activities will work best: NCCPE has a useful .
- Consult with and involve community partners in designing your activities.
- Consult with and involve the public (where possible) on how they would like to engage.
- Consider what skills and resources you will need to successfully deliver your chosen approach – this may include specialist facilitators, creatives and/or other professionals.
A note on setting up partners and specialists as suppliers in public engagement projects:
- University finance systems can be slow moving and complex. It can take a long time to get partners or specialist facilitators set up as suppliers and/or to get permission to pay them as self-employed individuals.
- Build in plenty of time for this (2-3 months) to avoid any problems.
- If you need support, talk to either a finance contact in your department or get in touch with the WIE Team who can advise on the best process to follow.
- You may also have to get Financial Regulations approval depending on what you鈥檙e hoping to do – you can find your Fin Regs champion on the Finance pages.
Find out more
- NCCPE has a large to give you ideas.
- The Practical Engagement Skills toolkit provides information about how to design approaches to public engagement.