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
We live in interesting times for community consultation and engagement. Participation rates for many of our traditional approaches are declining, and there is ever increasing pressure to reduce budgets and increase cycle times. Some believe this means leaning heavily on digital solutions but impact assessors might have an even better solution gathering dust at the bottom of their toolkits – the charette. This presentation argues that there is no better time for a renaissance of charettes, and demonstrates how the speaker used the approach in a recent large scale community consultation. |
Michael Benson
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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. |
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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