Participatory engagement and social research: methods toolkit

A toolkit of methods available to assist developers, consultants, and researchers carrying out socio-economic impact assessments (SEIA).


Footnotes

1. IAIA (2015) Social Impact Assessment: Guidance for Assessing and Managing the Social Impacts of Development or interventions

2. Vanclay, F. (2012) The potential application of social impact assessment in integrated coastal zone management, Ocean & Coastal Management¸ 68: 149-156,

3. Vanclay et al 2012: op cit

4. Mabon, L, Kita, J and Xue Z (2017) ‘Challenges for social impact assessment in coastal regions: a case study of the Tomakomai CCS Demonstration Development or intervention‘ Marine Policy 83: 243-251:

5. IAIA (2015) Social Impact Assessment: Guidance for Assessing and Managing the Social Impacts of Development or interventions:

6. For example, Mabon and Shackley (2015) noted in the context of sub-seabed carbon dioxide storage that social site characterisation processes, led jointly by a potential development or intervention developer and regulator, in fact increased residents’ scepticism towards the technology because the engagement activities were set up in a way that gave the impression an actual development or intervention was imminent or already decided.

7. The Scottish Government, Scottish Government Social Research: Protocols and Guidance (2020), accessed 15/09/2021.

8. British Sociological Association, Statement of Ethical Practice (2017), accessed 15/09/2021

9. Social Research Association, Research Ethics Guidance (2021), accessed 16/09/2021

10. Op.cit

11. Scottish Government (2022) Scotland's Climate Assembly – process, impact and assembly member experience: research report, available: Scotland's Climate Assembly - process, impact and assembly member experience: research report - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

12. Hall, J., Gaved, M., and Sargent, J. (2021) Participatory Research Approaches in Times of Covid-19: A Narrative Literature Review, International Journal of Qualitative Methods,

13. Lupton, D. (editor) (2021) Doing fieldwork in a pandemic (crowd-sourced document), revised version. Available at: Doing Fieldwork in a Pandemic

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