
PUBRL301-20A (HAM)
Stakeholder and Community Engagement
15 Points
Staff
Convenor(s)
Cheryl Cockburn-Wootten
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MSB.4.35F
cheryl.cockburn-wootten@waikato.ac.nz
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Paper Description
This paper is designed to develop your practical skills around ethical collaborative communication and relationship engagement activities with a diverse range of stakeholders within our communities. You will critically reflect on your values, some key theories relating to community, communication and stakeholder engagement and practices. You will also develop competencies in planning, facilitation, and analysis of designing and delivering stakeholder communications. This paper aims to get you involved in a real organisational and community issues. Assignments will focus your thinking, reflection and practices on identifying and facilitating communication around an issue for stakeholders in our local communities.
The paper will encompass three main areas relating to some key theories and skills relevant to community and stakeholder engagement work. The first two weeks will cover introductions, basic definitions and exploring your values and interpretations. This will be followed by a focus on the key theoretical and methodological issues relevant for stakeholder communication work with communities. This section for instance, will review issues of legitimacy and critical discussion around what constitutes a community. The final section of the paper will cover dialogue, ethics, risk, power and emotional issues and the processes of dissemination. In particular critically reflecting on factors that shape engagement and dissemination.
In addition to the course content, you will be encouraged to get involved with and within communities. Guest lecturers from various organisations will also kindly share their insight, experiences and advice around communicating to community stakeholders. You will work on a real issue for an organisation around communicating to a particular community. You will then present and pitch your solution to that organisation. In previous iterations of this assignment in other courses - many organisations have either hired students and/or adopted the solution for their organisation. So your work will make a difference and an impact!!
Paper Structure
Learning Outcomes
Students who successfully complete the paper should be able to:
Assessment
Assessment Components
The internal assessment/exam ratio (as stated in the University Calendar) is 100:0. There is no final exam.
Required and Recommended Readings
Required Readings
Recommended Readings
Recommended readings will be placed in Waikato Reading lists for this course.
Please note: Other relevant assignment readings, links and video clips will be placed on Moodle
Other Resources
Online Support
Workload
15 point paper = 150 hours over the course of the semester
This workload is spread over activities, thinking, reading that you do - outside as well as inside the classroom.