Deepening Democracy: New Initiatives in Public Participation

A one day workshop on democratic, inclusive process for policy and decision making

This page contains information from the Deepening Democracy workshop, which was hosted by the Bioethics Council Secretariat on Monday 28 May 2007 with the assistance of Network PR.

The workshop was run by Dr Lyn Carson and Anne Pattillo and was attended by 35 people from central and local government, non-governmental organisations, business, crown research institutes and universities.

“Exploring powerful engagement methods: deliberative designs” by Lyn Carson

• Video
• PowerPoint presentation [PPT 1.1 MB]

“Everyday democracy – New Zealand Perspectives” by Anne Pattillo

• Summary of Presentation [PDF 59 KB]

Additional workshop information

• Building Bridges: From Community Consultation to Community Engagement [PDF 2.7 MB]
• The Evaluation Criteria of Rowe and Frewer (2000) in 'Working Together: Involving Community and Stakeholders in Decision-Making'
• Table 1 and Table 3 from Rowe, Marsh & Frewer (2004), 'Evaluation of a deliberative conference' [PDF 207 KB]
• Section 3.3, Evaluate, from Book 2 Effective Engagement: the engagement planning workbook [PDF 4 MB]
• An inventory of democratic deliberative processes in Australia [PDF 153 KB]