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ENGAGING PRACTICE AND TOOLKITS

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Monday 15 August
S08 ENGAGED PRACTICE I
Chair: Les Dunn Queensland Dept of Main Roads, Brisbane, Australia
Room: M5&6
10.40am Community Engagement – New Insights and Learnings from Practice Jim Cavaye Cavaye Community Development, Toowoomba, Australia
11.00am Social Accounting – Australian Stories from a Social Accounting Practitioner Marcelle Holdaway Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
11.20am Evaluating Community and Government Engagement Processes in the Central Queensland Region, Australia John Rolfe Central Queensland University, Rockhampton, Australia & Shion Yee Central Queensland University, Brisbane, Australia
11.40am Community Based Contracting: Gauging Capacity and Mapping Value David Week Assai, Sydney, Australia
S11 TOOLKIT FOR ENGAGING PRACTICE I
Chair: Douglas Watson Queensland Dept of the Premier & Cabinet, Brisbane, Australia
Room: P3
10.40am Using Community Deliberation Forums for Public Participation Process: Examples from Missouri USA and New South Wales, Australia Sandra Hodge University of Missouri, Columbia, USA & Zelma Bone Charles Sturt University, Orange, Australia
11.00am Deliberative Designs in Australia Lyn Carson University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia & Phillip Hart Hollier & Hart, Sydney, Australia
11.20am Creative Practices of Hope Debbie Horsfall University of Western Sydney, Penrith, Australia
11.40am Designing and Using Tools to Make a Real Difference Janice Timms Queensland Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries, Brisbane, Australia
TW1 ENGAGING PRACTICE: TOOLS WORKSHOP I
Room: F1
10.40am - 11.40am Community Visioning Wendy Sarkissian Sarkissian Associates Planners, Brisbane, Australia
S29 STORYTELLING SESSION I
Chair: Lorraine Robinson Office of Youth, Queensland Dept of Communities, Brisbane, Australia
Room: PF
2.10pm Dee Murphy Cairns, Australia
2.25pm Albert Park Flexi School Brisbane, Australia
2.40pm Cape York Institute Cairns, Australia
2.55pm CREATE Brisbane, Australia
3.10pm Discussion
TW2 ENGAGING PRACTICE: TOOLS WORKSHOP II
Room: F1
2.10pm – 3.10pm Cardstorming Technique Max Hardy Twyford Consulting, Wollongong, Australia
S34 ENGAGING SYSTEMS: MEASURING AND EVALUATING PARTICIPATION
Chair: Nancy Spencer Queensland Dept of Child Safety, Brisbane, Australia
Room: M2
4.30pm Evaluating Community Engagement: Experiences from Queensland, Australia Rick Williams Queensland Department of Communities, Brisbane, Australia
4.50pm Measuring Community Capacity: An Electronic Audit Template Brian Cheers Centre for Rural and Regional Development, University of South Australia, Whyalla-Norrie, Australia
5.10pm Engaging Communities with Social Impact Assessment: SIA as a Social Quality Assurance Process Frank Vanclay Tasmanian Institute of Agricultural Research, Hobart, Australia
 S40 ENGAGING PRACTICES
Chair: Gavin Paine Queensland Dept of Main Roads, Brisbane, Australia
Room: P3
4.30pm Community Engagement – Who for? Lucia Boxelaar University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia
4.50pm Sustained vs Eroding Community Engagement Winnifred Louis University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Australia
5.10pm Deliberation as a Key to Community Engagement Janette Hartz-Karp Office of the Minister for Planning and Infrastructure, Maylands, Australia
S44 STORYTELLING SESSION II
Chair: Narelle Heckendorf Queensland Dept of Communities, Brisbane, Australia
Room: PF
4.30pm Community Participation in the Self-Help Housing Project : An Analysis of a Housing Project for Tribal Communities in India Chandrakant Puri SNDT Women’s University, Centre for Distance Education, Mumbai, India
4.50pm Commission for Children and Young People and Child Guardian – Community Visitor Program Merril Holbeck Commission for Children and Young People and Child Guardian, Brisbane, Australia
5.10pm Community Pest Management Planning – A Case Study Helen Haapakoski Queensland Department of Natural Resources and Mines, Nambour, Australia
TW3 ENGAGING PRACTICE: TOOLS WORKSHOP III
Room: F1
4.30pm– 5.30pm Strategic Questioning Lyn Carson University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

Tuesday 16 August
S55 ENGAGING PRACTICE: BARRIERS AND OPPORTUNITIES
Chair: Chris Clarke Queensland Dept of Main Roads, Brisbane, Australia
Room: P3
11.30am Addressing the ‘Wicked’ Problems Beyond the Silos: Examining the Relationship Between Joined up Integration and Community Localism Zara Lasater University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
11.50am Building Partnerships to Promote Economic and Social Well-Being and Learning Bruce Wilson RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia & Michael
Osbourne & Kate Sankey
University of Stirling, Scotland, UK
12.10pm The Engaged Government Project Malcolm Hellmuth Queensland Dept of Main Roads, Rockhampton, Australia & Tanya Liebrecht Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia
TW4 ENGAGING PRACTICE: TOOLS WORKSHOP IV
Room: F1
11.30am–
12.30pm
Monitoring and Evaluating Community Projects – using Soft Systems Methodology to Define Requirements David Swete Kelly RDSM Consulting, Philippines & Paul Crawford Aid-It Solutions, Morriset, Australia
S82 TOOLKIT FOR ENGAGING PRACTICE II
Chair: Chris Smith Disability Services Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Room: P1
4.00pm The Grameen Bank Approach to Community Engagement Sandy Paton Institute for Sustainable Development, Central Queensland University,
Rockhampton, Australia
4.20pm Building Trust, Leadership, and Power for Action in Rural Communities Janet Ayres Dept. of Ag. Economics, Purdue University, W. Lafayette, USA
4.40pm The I Forum, A New Approach to Community Engagement Carla Rogers Evolve Facilitation and Coaching, Australia
5.00pm 80s, 90s and Now...Sustainable Core Values in Community Engagement from Blantyre to Brisbane Pamela Greet Queensland Ambulance Service,
Brisbane, Australia
S89 STORYTELLING SESSION III
Chair: Narelle Heckendorf Queensland Dept of Communities, Brisbane, Australia
Room: PF
4.00pm Who Changed Tara? A Case Study of Community Participation and Engagement Andrew Darbyshire Queensland Department of Communities, Toowoomba, Australia & Margaret Cruickshank Queensland Department of Communities, Brisbane, Australia
4.20pm Lifelong Learning: stories from Leichhardt and Caboolture, Queensland Andree Stark Community Renewal, Queensland Department of Housing,
Brisbane, Australia & Ros Resich Immaculate Heart Primary School, Brisbane, Australia & Marylou Goodall Deception Bay Lifelong Learning Project, Deception Bay, Australia
4.40pm Sharing Learnings from the Engaged and Learnings from the Engaged – A Case Study Paul Harris Department of Natural Resources and Mines,
Nambour, Australia & Owen Thompson Landholder, Gundiah, Australia

Wednesday 17 August
S103 TOOLKIT FOR ENGAGING PRACTICE III
Chair: Lisa Pollard Queensland Dept of Communities, Brisbane, Australia
Room: P5
11.00am Infeartainment and Participation: Challenges to Community Engagement Narayan Gopalkrishnan University of the Sunshine Coast, Maroochydore, Australia
11.20am The Learning Community: Strategies for Bridging Organizational Learning Concepts with Communities Jeffrey Miller Innovative Leadership Solutions, Zionsville, USA & Teresa Hogue Oregon State University, Bend, Oregon USA
11.40am Mapping Achievable Tomorrows CJ Jones & Shay Zulpo Community Action, Eumundi, Australia
12.00pm Fighting Homelessness: Multi-Sector Partnering to Promote Community Engagement for Social Change Ruth White Seattle University, Seattle, USA
S106 COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT THROUGH ART
Chair: Nusch Herman Queensland Dept of Communities, Brisbane, Australia
Room: RH – B2
11.00am Building a Chorus, Engaging Citizens: The Creation of ‘Websong’ through Participative Decision Making and Production Patricia Gillard University of Newcastle, Callaghan, Australia
11.20am Community Engagement and Creative Community Culture: a Study of Queensland Arts Council and the Role of the Arts and Cultural Industries in Building Stronger Communities Michael Richards Queensland Arts Council, Queensland, Australia
11.40am Embracing Principles of Social Justice and Community Development through Music Brian Procopis Sweet Freedom, Brisbane, Australia
12.00pm From Libraries to Community Hubs – Engaging Communities through Cultural, Creative and Learning Processes Sandra Lynn & Tina Rawkins Brisbane City Council, Brisbane, Australia
S113 ENGAGING PRACTICE I
Chair: Wil Brown Queensland Dept of Communities, Brisbane, Australia
Room: M4
1.30pm Making International Best Practice Work in Australian Communities: Visioning, Community Panels, and Measuring Progress Emma Williams Northern Territory Government, Community Engagement Division, Darwin, Australia
1.50pm Sounds Good but Does it Work? Assets based community development in practice Margot Castles The Benevolent Society, Wyong, Australia
2.10pm Addressing Interests and Values in a Consensus Building Framework for Water Allocation Claudia Baldwin The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
2.30pm Community Building in Regional Australia Lyn Leader-Elliott Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia
S116 ENGAGED SYSTEMS: EVALUATING ENGAGEMENT
Chair: Marion Norton Queensland Dept of Child Safety, Brisbane, Australia
Room: P2
1.30pm Measuring Engaging Communities Michael Hess School of Management, University of Tasmania, Kingston Beach, Australia
1.50pm Improving Accountability for Participatory Processes Through Effective Evaluation Vivien Twyford International Association for Public Participation, Wollongong, Australia
2.10pm Understanding and Measuring Stakeholder Engagement: A Managerial Perspective Leeora Black Australian Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility, Victoria, Australia
2.30pm The EvaluateIT Kit: A Method for Engaging Communities in Evaluating IT Projects June Lennie June Lennie Research and Evaluation, Brisbane, Australia & Greg Hearn CIRAC, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
S117 ENGAGING PRACTICE II
Chair: Tanya Lucas Australian Bureau of Statistics, Brisbane, Australia
Room: P3
1.30pm Community Engagement – Explanations, Limits and Impacts Brian Head Key Centre for Ethics & Governance, Nathan, Australia
1.50pm From ‘Deficit’ to Democracy: Dialogue, Deliberation and Public Participation in the Biosciences John Pennington Ministry for the Environment New Zealand, Wellington, New Zealand
2.10pm Community Development Toolkit Leila Edmonds Rutgers University, Montclair, USA
2.30pm Characteristics of Effective Natural Resource Management Partnerships Peter Oliver Queensland Department of Natural Resources and Mines,
Brisbane, Australia
S119 TOOLKIT FOR ENGAGING PRACTICE IV
Chair: Chris Clarke Queensland Dept of Main Roads, Brisbane, Australia
Room: P5
1.30pm The Art of Renewal: a Practical Guide for Residents, Councils and Planners to Thinking Culturally about Strengthening Communities Deb Miles Arts Queensland, Brisbane, Australia & Glenda Masson Department of Housing, Community Renewal Program, Brisbane, Australia
1.50pm Sense of Place – a Tool to Assist the Meaningful Engagement of Communities Joanna Axford The University of Queensland, Gatton, Australia
2.10pm Speaking Out in Community Engagement: A Review of Fifteen Years of Refinement of the SpeakOut Model Wendy Sarkissian Sarkissian Associates Planners, Brisbane, Australia & Andrea Cook Red Road Consulting, Melbourne, Australia
2.30pm A Framework and Toolkit to Work Towards Whole of Community Engagement Heather Aslin Bureau of Rural Sciences, Canberra City, Australia
TW5 ENGAGING PRACTICE: TOOLS WORKSHOP VII
Room: CO-1.21
1.30pm QPAC’s Out of the Box Festival of Early Childhood: A Case Study Examining Engagement and Participation by Children Collette Brennan Queensland Performing Arts Centre, South Bank, Australia
2.15pm Citizen Senates for Engaging the Unengaged Andrew Davidson Natural Resource Management South East Queensland, Brisbane, Australia