Overview

Social Value plays a crucial role in successful infrastructure planning, design and delivery.

Building on the Foundations for Project Acceptance course, this three hour masterclass equips participants with expert level knowledge and the capacity to integrate evidence-based insights and tools into their own real-world projects.

Our world leading practitioners and researchers show you how your major infrastructure projects can benefit from understanding and mastering the creation and measurement of community-led social value.

This masterclass will deep dive into latest social value research and its application to infrastructure planning and delivery.

Real world application

The presentations, case studies and interactive live sessions will include the latest ground-breaking research from the Australian National University's Institute for Infrastructure in Society. This applied research has been developed over 8 years across more than $230B in infrastructure delivery.

This evidence will be discussed in the context of the facilitators extensive first-hand expertise delivering complex and controversial infrastructure and energy projects.

Session Schedule

This three hour masterclass will be delivered entirely online. Participants can opt in to an additional 30-min course orientation/meet and greet prior to the masterclass to help get the most from the course and build professional networks.

Course dates and times are as follows:

Wednesday 10th June 2026 10.00-13.00 (AEDT)

or

Wednesday 14th October 2026 10.00-13.00 (AEDT)

Learning outcomes:

Understand how major projects can deliver social value, including supporting improved levels of resilience, in host communities.
Better identify the aspects of social value that will matter most to host communities, including the value being delivered through their projects.
Apply social value/social outcomes approaches that can help better integrate social value creation into projects.

Who is this course for?

This course is designed for individuals working across the infrastructure sector who need to understand and proactively manage social aspects of project planning and delivery.

Participants from all disciplines including community engagement, project management, engineering, procurement and risk management are encouraged to register.

This course builds on the The Foundations of Project Acceptance course. While attendance of the foundations course is encouraged, the foundations course is not a pre-requisite of our Masterclass. Participants must be aware of the key concepts of social value to fully benefit from the teachings in this Masterclass.

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