How Iain Works
Iain provides an interface between policymakers, researchers and citizens
Trained in community psychology, Iain has extensive experience in bringing together community and organisational development, government policy and planning, workforce training and development, and applied research.
Unlike conventional consultants who specialise in one discipline or sector, Iain has extensive experience of:
- 1. Working in state government, local government, universities and non-government organisations (NGOs).
- 2. Building dynamic partnerships between these sectors.
- 3. Creating new knowledge that informs policy and practice.
Iain generates collective impact
Iain works to connect research, policy and action in new ways, by brokering and leading community-engaged partnerships that put liveability, community capacity-building, quality of life and sustainability at the centre of policy, legislation and urban development. Iain supports planners, policy makers and communities to build detailed local knowledge about how well a place ‘works’, and for whom; where the gaps are; and how to make places more liveable for everyone.
Iain can support you to:
- Build partnerships that bring together evidence, learning, and action.
- Create local intelligence to inform local decision-making.
- Generate policy-relevant research and evidence-informed policy.
- Strengthen collaborative action across all sectors and departments to address the social and environmental determinants of community well-being.
- Evaluate plans and strategies for their wider community impact.
For more information about Iain, please visit his LinkedIn page here
IAIN works with the following partners
Researchers
Universities
Urban developers
NGOs
NFPs
Other consultants
Community groups
Social entrepreneurs
Federal government
State Government - Directors and Managers
Local Government - Directors, Councillors, managers, strategic and statutory planners, social planners
Iain can provide direct consulting services and help you to build your capacity in the following areas:
- Action research
- Adult education and training programs – development, delivery, and evaluation
- Advocacy development and training
- Collective impact
- Community capacity-building
- Group development
- Group facilitation
- Healthy Cities and Communities (World Health Organisation)
- Indicator development
- Knowledge translation
- Liveability – what it means, and how to use the research
- Measuring success
- Municipal public health planning
- Organisational review, development, and change
- Partnership development
- Policy analysis
- Practice review
- Program evaluation
- Research
- Strategic planning
- Team building
- Troubleshooting
- University-government- community partnerships
- Workforce development
