Lunch & Learn - Effective Community Engagement

Join us for The BCC's first Lunch & Learn seminar for 2023, featuring special guest speaker Roger Farley, former Director Communication and Engagement with Road Safety in WA.

The words ‘engage with the community’ are stated so often as a requirement of a job, a role responsibility, or as a means to appearing to understand the community – but what does this really mean, and what does it involve?

To maximise the effectiveness of good engagement, you need to understand and be aware of:

• Why should we engage?
• Who should we engage with?
• When should we engage with the community?
• How should this engagement be done?

So come along and be involved in a chat about the opportunities, challenges, benefits and necessity of ‘engagement’.

The event is priced on a cost-recovery basis. Tickets are $20 +BF and includes a light lunch.  Places are limited and sales close at 3pm on Monday 27 February.  Tickets are non-refundable, but can be transferred to another attendee by contacting us at events@thebcc.org.au.

About The BCC’s Lunch & Learn seminars

The BCC employs a multi-disciplinary approach to address health, social and environmental challenges. Over the years, we’ve worked proactively to establish a global network of academics, institutions and professionals who share our passion for affecting positive change. The purpose of our Lunch & Learns is to harness and share the knowledge that resides in our network and facilitate the cross pollination of ideas. We want to build the capacity of others to develop policies, programs and services that result in positive impact for people and planet.

Presentations run for 25-30 minutes, with opportunities for Q&A and networking.  

Presenter

Roger Farley was the Director for Communication and Engagement for Road Safety in Western Australia for over 22 years. While leading these functions, he developed many models of engagement for various sized projects and budgets. He has been recognised in the behaviour change communications space at state, national and international levels.

Roger has regularly presented at UWA, Curtin and ECU on using insights and understanding the community to develop behaviour change campaigns and strategies.

Committed to positive outcomes and to the benefits of appropriate engagement practices, Roger is an expert in factoring community feedback and understanding in successful strategy and campaign development.