Training
Taylor Baines and Associates provides training programmes ranging from short courses to university programmes.
Training is provided in the areas of:
- Social assessment
- Integrated (sustainability) assessment
- Risk assessment
TBA offers Social Impact Assessment (SIA) training courses focussing on the practical application of concepts, processes and techniques to deliver high quality assessments. SIA training is aimed at public and private-sector applications as well as community agencies.
Social Assessment Training Workshop, Tauranga 17-18 May 2010.
Types of courses:
Training courses can be customised and typically are basic introduction (0.5 - 1 days), familiarisation (2 days), professional practice (3 days) and advanced with field work (4-5 days). Training techniques are fitted to the training context and can include lectures and seminars, role plays, group work, case studies and practical exercises. Further professional development exercises are provided as required and defined by an internal needs assessment. University lecture courses are provided on contract at both graduate and undergraduate levels, as well as supervision of graduate research projects.
Content coverage:
- definitions of SIA
- origins of SIA, approaches and orientations
- potential applications of SIA
- the institutional setting for SIA
- integrating SIA with other aspects of impact assessment - towards sustainability assessment
- the SIA process - basic steps and the SIA cycle
- using scoping to drive the SIA process
- types, collection, organisation and validation of social data using the issues oriented approach
- the social profile based on secondary data
- public involvement through SIA - stakeholder identification
- methods for engaging with affected people (personal interviews, focus groups, workshops and community meetings, social surveys)
- monitoring, mitigation and management of impacts, including enhancement.
Recent training courses:
- Social Assessment Training Workshop, Christchurch, 30-31 March 2009. For further details click here.
- International Association for Impact Assessment pre-conference courses, 2009, Accra, Ghana (2 days)
- Federal Dept of Town & Country Planning, Malaysia, 2004 (3 days)
- Environmental Risk Management Agency, New Zealand, 2004 (0.5 day)
- Petronas Malaysia, 2004 (2 days)
- Neighbourhood Nurses Project community profiling, New Zealand, 2003 (1 day).
TBA principals have considerable experience in professional in-service training in Asia and the Pacific. Training techniques are fitted to the training context and can include lectures and seminars, role plays, group work, case studies and practical exercises.
For further information on training contact:
- Dr Nick Taylor, Taylor Baines & Associates,
Christchurch
Ph: (03) 313-8458; email: n.taylor@tba.co.nz
- James Baines, Taylor Baines & Associates, Riccarton,
Christchurch.
Ph: (03) 343-3884; email: j.baines@tba.co.nz