St Andrew’s Cathedral, Sydney Square open space stakeholder and community engagement Stage 1. St Andrews Cathedral Garden, community engagement workshops and co-design process. This project has run over a couple of years and has seen Comcorp Director Dr Jen George work alongside the leadership of St Andrews Cathedral and a broad range of internal stakeholders to […]
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Community interviews, surveys, desktop surveys, and workshops with staff, board members, parents and alumni have been undertaken to understand and develop community engagement plan for several independent schools in NSW.
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Comcorp undertook several days of community engagement workshops with parents, staff and students to produce a report summarising the key issues for consideration and priority planning into the next strategy. Dr George then worked closely with the School Principal to collaborate in a dialogue about school futures to inform the School Strategy at Sapphire Coast
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Comcorp staff share expertise in school partnership projects As a place planner (landscape architect, planner and community engagement expert) the offer was made to the school my child attended to share in a session of learning. It is a PYP school and partnering with others is often embraced if it fits with curriculum and timetabling. With open
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Community engagement consultant for master planning and place making of the Leschenault Inlet in Bunbury, WA. Jen partnering with Place Laboratory working with the community for the Local Council to engage multiple diverse stakeholders including the Business Council and the Local Land Council. This project involved spending time with the elders from the Goomburrup Aboriginal Corporation and
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Following the bushfire crisis in Jan 2020, a community led partnership project was generated between The Kings School, Parramatta and Sapphire Coast Anglican College in Bega in 2020. This project involved an enthusiastic group of people (made up of parents and staff from the King’s School) working together to run a textbook drive collecting books for
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Dr Jen George travelled to Western Australia in Feb 2020 as main speaker at a WA Government and Bibbulmun Track Foundation sponsored public lecture attended by over thirty people. She also ran a Masterclass on Community Governance in Green Infrastructure. Jen also travelled on a sponsored trip to Victoria to present exciting new research findings
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Dr George was project leader of the GreenWay Sustainable Governance Project running over 5 years from 2008- 2013 and a a follow up review paper in 2017 including action research, capacity building and critical friend role for The Cooks River to Iron Cove GreenWay team. This work focused on Sustainable Governance of a complex multi-jurisdictional
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Although some schools are still spinning their wheels in long practiced yet outdated approaches, community engagement ought to offer far more than just parent-teacher interviews and a once-a-year fete. Modern technology, changing social demographics, emerging health challenges and shifting employment practices are all key to understanding the emerging landscape for schools in community engagement. By understanding
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Between 2013-2016 Dr George acted as a strategist and community engagement lead for a large independent school in Perth pulling together a group of volunteers to develop an efficient and engaging volunteer program. This involved partnering with a team of “champion” parents to lead the school community in online and face to face encouragement and
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