Handbook

Through the consultation components of this course, you will recognise the importance of engaging communities to tap into their grounded experience and tacit knowledge of local social, natural and built environments. You will draw on real-world experiences of participatory processes to design stakeholder engagement strategies and apply appropriate and emerging engagement, consultation, monitoring and evaluation techniques. The communication components build on this, with you enhancing your skills in presenting and explaining complex planning issues to diverse audiences, in communicating through evidence from primary and secondary sources, and effectively engaging in adversarial contexts through mediation and negotiation.

Central to the practice year experience, this course will guide you through your first role in the planning sector, provoke you to draw upon your own experiences to think more critically about the planning sector’s complexity and competing objectives, and inform your development as a planning professional. You will bring real world examples of the opportunities and challenges of your professional placement into the classroom, and learn from the diversity of other students’ experiences, to integrate insights across theory and practice.