Nick Taylor
Nick Taylor
Nick Taylor has broad experience applying social research to projects, programmes, policy and plans in New Zealand and internationally. He was a founding director of Taylor Baines & Associates and is now an independent researcher and consultant, working on strategic and project social impact assessments, recently including land and water plans, regional economic development strategies, irrigation development and aggregate mining. He is a senior adjunct of Lincoln University and a Past President of the IAIA. |
Hirini Matunga
Hirini Matunga
Hirini is Professor of Maori and Indigenous Planning at Lincoln University. Prior to that he was Deputy Vice Chancellor Communities, Assistant Vice Chancellor - Maori, Director of the Centre for Maori and Indigenous Planning and Development at Lincoln University and Senior Lecturer in Planning at the University of Auckland. He graduated in Town Planning in 1983 and practised as a planner – specialising in Maori issues with Napier City Council, Auckland Regional Council and the Ministry of Works and Development. He has been actively engaged in practice, then teaching and research in Maori planning, resource management, policy and design and indigenous heritage management with indigenous Maori and public sector institutions for over 30 years. In 2015, the Minister for Maori Development presented him with the New Zealand Planning Institutes - Papa Pounamu Award for Outstanding Service to Maori Environmental Planning and Resource Management. He is of Ngai Tahu (hapu Ngai Te Ruahikihiki, Ngai Tuahuriri, Ngati Huirapa), Ngati Porou, Rongowhakaata, Ngati Kahungunu, Ngati Paerangi (Atiu, Cook Islands) descent. |
Michaela Aspell
Michaela Aspell
Michaela is an Advisor at the Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) and a part-time masters student studying Climate Change Science and Policy at Te Herenga Waka/Victoria University of Wellington. A Natural Resources Engineer by training, she previously worked at Tonkin + Taylor where she was seconded to Lyttelton Port Company as an Assistant Project Manager for large regulatory approvals under the RMA. She is passionate about environmental sustainability and particularly interested in the interaction between mātauranga Māori and climate change adaptation and mitigation. |
Hamish Rennie
Hamish RennieHamish Rennie is an Associate Professor in Planning and Environmental Management at Lincoln University, NZ. A geographer initiated into social impact assessment as a graduate field worker for the Clutha HEP development he has maintained a keen interest in social impact assessment in developing countries and New Zealand in his subsequent 12 years as a public servant and since moving to academia in 1995 he has taught and supervised research in various aspects of SIA ever since. As an RMA Hearings Commissioner, submitter and expert planning witness he has seen its (non-)use in various planning settings and maintains a keen interest in its role in decision-making. |
Professor Sara Bice
Professor Sara Bice
Professor Sara Bice is Foundation Director, Institute for Infrastructure in Society at the Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University and a recent Past President of the IAIA. In 2020 Sara received the IAIA Outstanding Service Award. She has wide experience in SIA and will discuss some of the challenges and solutions facing SIA, especially the opportunities found in placing more emphasis on cumulative impacts and community based assessments. |
Dy Jolly and Jade Wikaira
Dy Jolly and Jade Wikaira
Dyanna Jolly is from Whitebear First Nations in Saskatchewan, Canada. She has worked for iwi and hapū for the last 15 years preparing Iwi Management Plans and cultural impact assessments. She is currently completing her PhD at the University of Otago and has a particular interest in what Treaty-based impact assessment might look like. Jade Wikaira (Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Te Whānau ā Apanui, Ngāpuhi) is a planning practitioner with a passion for working with whānau and hapū to develop outcomes that reflect their aspirations, and for working towards more inclusive planning practice. Jade is the current Chairperson of Papa Pounamu, the national network of Māori environmental planning and resource management practitioners. |
Carl Davidson
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Poster Session
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Michael Benson and Marcus Eyre
Michael Benson and Marcus Eyre
Michael Benson has been working in the field of social impact assessment for the past 20 years. He is currently working at the Canada Energy Regulator where he shapes the CER’s technical work and strategic direction on environmental and socio-economic assessments, and engagement with the public and Indigenous peoples. Michael's professional career concentrates on applying critical and system thinking approaches to solve sustainability challenges. Marcus has worked in environmental and social impact assessment for over 25 years, on both project reviews and public hearings, as well as in the development of impact assessment methods and practices. Most recently he was a technical leader (environment) with the Canadian Energy Regulator where he worked for the past 20 years. Although initially trained as a biologist and having mostly worked on biophysical issues he has also worked on social impact assessments and is interested in the interactions, relationships and interdependence between the social and biophysical realms. |
Rob Greenaway
Rob Greenaway
Over the past 30 years Rob Greenaway has completed more than 500 consultancy projects in New Zealand, Asia and the Pacific, and has presented evidence at more than 100 hearings. Rob’s area of expertise is recreation and tourism planning, and includes management planning and resource assessments for local and regional authorities, and assessments of effect for consent applications, mostly in coastal, marine and freshwater settings, but including subdivisions and major industrial developments. He is a Fellow and an Accredited Recreation Professional of Recreation Aotearoa. |
Gerard Fitzgerald
Gerard Fitzgerald
I am a social scientist and social impact assessment practitioner of 40 years’ experience and a founder member of the NZAIA. My disciplinary origins are in social anthropology. My life’s work has broadly covered research and consulting in the field of society, environment, resources, and technology. In the past 10 years I have been mainly working on projects in developing countries, including in the Pacific, SE Asia, South and East Asia. I am the third of 6 children from Timaru. My wife of 44 years works in teacher education at Canterbury University; my son in Perth is a former SIA practitioner and now a stakeholder engagement specialist; and my daughter in Brisbane is a primary school teacher. Both of my children have 2 children each. |
Angela Curl
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Anna Berka and Janet Stephenson
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Sue Vallance
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Erina Hurihanganui and Malcom Mersham
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Rajan Ghosh and Caroline Orchiston
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Chantal Lauzon
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Richard Parsons
Richard Parsons
Richard Parsons is with the NSW Department of Planning, Industry and Environment and has led development and implementation of the SIA guidelines for major projects. He will outline the recent evolution of SIA in NSW, and identify some characteristics and conditions for rigorous, reflexive, and inclusive SIA, and some potential future trends. |
Steph Brown and Wendy Turvey
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Jenny Rock
Dr. Jenny Rock
Dr Jenny Rock has an interdisciplinary background in science and the arts/humanities, and is an applied and academic researcher in both spaces. She holds a BA in human ecology and a PhD in biological science, and is a practicing artist with formal coursework in visual arts, and has exhibited internationally. She was previously a Sr Lecturer in science communication at the University of Otago, focusing on aesthetics and philosophy of science, traditional ecological knowledge, participatory practice, sensory cognition and art-science interaction. Currently she is an Associate Lecturer for the University of the Westfjords (Iceland), lecturing and supervising masters student research on coastal community development, and Adjunct Professor at College of the Atlantic (Maine, USA) lecturing undergraduates and supervising postgraduates in transdisciplinary approaches, where scientific and artistic practices meld. She lives in the Dunedin area and does freelance work with the city council, Otago Polytechnic, University of Otago and other institutions on creative community engagement. |