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Doing Deliberative Democracy

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This short course is specifically designed for community engagement staff and professional facilitators who want to learn about specific deliberative engagement phases and methods and how they differ from traditional participation methods. Engage in self-paced online activities, interact in group-work and participate in live webinars to help you master deliberative process design and delivery, in order to address the most complex issues in your communities.

About this course

Deliberative democracy has a key role to play in the future social and political cohesion of Australian and global societies. If you’re keen to learn best practice methods of designing and delivering these processes, join us in this dynamic, interactive online course.

The information, activities, group work and live webinars in this course will guide you through in-depth learning about key elements to consider when designing a deliberative process. These elements include the role of the facilitator, the phases of a deliberative process, including navigating the process of consensus building and consideration of the various tools and techniques that support deliberation. Together with a cohort of your peers and guided by experts, learn to design and deliver deliberative processes such as mini-publics and citizen assemblies. 

You will get to design a deliberative process from start to finish and experience the process of deliberation and consensus building in action. You will also get to know the essential underpinnings and explore new challenges such as online deliberative processes. The course has been developed in conjunction with the newDemocracy Foundation, enabling us to draw on the organisation’s extensive project experience in Australia and internationally.

Price

Full price: $1,650 (GST free)*

*Price subject to change. Please check price at time of purchase. 

A discounted course price of $1,250 is available for anyone who has completed our Leading Deliberative Democracy short course. Please contact the team at support@open.uts.edu.au for further information.

Enrolment conditions

  • Course purchase is subject to UTS Open Terms and Conditions. 

COVID-19 response 

  • UTS complies with latest Government health advice. Delivery of all courses complies with the UTS response to COVID-19.

Additional course information

Course outline

This short course will run over six weeks, taking about 25 hours of your time if you complete all of the activities, including engaging in the small group work.

We’ll take you on an in-depth exploration of deliberative democracy processes, such as a mini-public, and equip you with everything you need to know to facilitate the best possible deliberative process, when addressing the most complex challenges.

1.  What, when and why of deliberative processes

  • Understanding the political and public trust rationale for preferring jury-style processes
  • The deliberative process in practice
  • Case studies of real-world deliberative processes and lessons learned
  • The latest innovations in deliberative democracy from around the world
  • Comparing deliberation, dialogue and debate and their purpose.

2.  What to do before your deliberative process

  • Understanding when deliberation is the right approach
  • Identifying and formulating the challenge to be addressed - designing a clear remit
  • Choosing the appropriate level of authority for your process
  • Deciding how many people should participate, how often should they meet and over what timeframe
  • Choosing whether to hold online, face-to-face or hybrid processes
  • Engaging and communicating with citizens, stakeholders and experts beyond the mini-public
  • What is the role of the facilitator, how to choose one and when to involve someone in this role
  • What’s required to recruit citizens to a deliberative process?

3.  Designing and delivering your deliberative process

  • Become familiar with the five stages of designing a deliberative process
  • Addressing group dynamics – building trust and managing conflict
  • Building participants skills – recognising biases, empathic listening and critical thinking
  • Designing the learning phase – interrogating information and hearing diverse perspectives
  • Identifying options and recommendations – reaching consensus
  • Supporting citizens to document their recommendations
  • Addressing challenges for facilitators, such as independence, time management and conflict
  • Encouraging ongoing feedback from participants about what’s working and what isn’t
  • Discovering tools and techniques for face-to-face and online sessions.

4.  Closing the loop after your deliberative process is complete

  • Reporting back to participants about outcomes
  • Communicating with the wider community and stakeholders
  • Evaluating the process - what would you do differently next time?

Course delivery

This short course comprises online content you can access anytime to learn at your own pace, as well as interactive activities and live sessions with experts and course leaders. You will also be able to enrich your course experience by engaging in online small-group work with other course participants.

Course learning objectives

Successful completion of this course will equip participants to:

  • Critically assess detailed principles of deliberative democracy and evidence of successful deliberative processes
  • Evaluate the types of problems deliberative processes are most appropriate for
  • Understand the key stages of a deliberative process and the tools and techniques that support these phases
  • Develop and present a deliberative process design and engage with peers/experts to improve it
  • Demonstrate and evaluate the skills required for good deliberative facilitation.

Requirements

Mandatory

  • To complete this online course, you will need a personal computer with reliable internet access and an operating system with a web browser compatible with the UTS Canvas Learning Management System (LMS).

Contact us

  • For any questions on enrolment or payment, please email support@open.uts.edu.au 
  • If you have a specific question on course content or requirements, please contact Chris Riedy Christopher.riedy@uts.edu.au or phone +61 402 043 386
  • Should you be registering to attend from outside of Australia, please email tennille.jones@uts.edu.au

Who is this course for?

This short course is suitable for (but not limited to):

  • Community engagement staff
  • Professional facilitators
  • Anyone interested in an in-depth understanding of how deliberative democracy processes work.
$1,650.00

START DATE

04 July

MODE

Online

DURATION

8 wks
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Meet the experts

Chris Riedy

Chris Riedy
Professor of Sustainability Transformations, Institute for Sustainable Futures, UTS

Chris Riedy is Professor of Sustainability Transformations and Associate Director Learning and Development at the Institute for Sustainable Futures (ISF), University of Technology Sydney. In this role, Chris leads ISF’s strategic focus on transformative lifetime learning to support sustainable futures. Chris is a transdisciplinary action researcher with a focus on sustainability transformations. He uses sociological and political theory, narrative theory, futures thinking, and systems thinking to design, facilitate and evaluate practical experiments in transformative change towards sustainable futures.

Chris is an Advisor to the international Transformations Community (www.transformationscommunity.org), a Senior Research Fellow of the Earth System Governance project (www.earthsystemgovernance.net), and is on the Editorial Board of Futures and Action Research. He is currently leading an Opportunity Assessment of Australia’s energy foresighting and planning capability for the RACE for 2030 Cooperative Research Centre.

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Nivek Thompson

Nivek Thompson
Research Consultant, ISF-UTS

Nivek Thompson is the founder and director of Deliberately Engaging, where she recruits mini publics for deliberative processes and supports online engagement through the European crowdsourcing platform Synthetron. Nivek has worked for the newDemocracy Foundation designing and managing citizens’ juries. She also has a long history of working in state government and the non-government sector, undertaking community and stakeholder engagement to support change and the development of new policies in areas including quality childcare, children’s rights, competition policy, consumer protection, community development, workplace health & safety, road safety and regulatory reform.

Nivek is the host and producer of Real Democracy Now! - a podcast, where she talks to thought leaders from around the world about democracy and democratic reform. She is also producer of the Facilitating Public Deliberations podcast in partnership with nDF and Professor Carson. She has drawn on her expertise and vast network of experts in the field in creating the content for this course.

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Book a session

Mon 04 Jul 2022 -
Fri 26 Aug 2022
Expert: Chris Riedy, Nivek Thompson
  • This online course runs over eight weeks, starting on 4 July 2022. The overall time learners will need to commit to this course is around 25 hours in total over 8 weeks with 6 Zoom sessions of 1 – 2 hours each.
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  • 6 sessions, 10 hours total
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    Tue 05 July 2022
    Day (time is TBC)
    1.5 hours
    Online
    Tue 12 July 2022
    Evening (time is TBC)
    1.5 hours
    Online
    Tue 26 July 2022
    Day (time is TBC)
    2 hours
    Online
    Tue 02 August 2022
    Day (time is TBC)
    1.5 hours
    Online
    Tue 16 August 2022
    Day (time is TBC)
    2 hours
    Online
    Thu 25 August 2022
    Day (time is TBC)
    1.5 hours
    Online
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To complete this online course you will need a personal computer with adequate internet access, web conferencing capability and an operating system with a web browser compatible with Canvas, and Zoom.

Enrolments for this session close at 11.59pm Monday 11 July 2022. The live webinar will be recorded and available for registered participants.

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