Webinar on Stakeholder Engagement

• Exposogas Project
• June 10, 2019

The first webinar for the CII researchers took place on June 4, @3pm Cyprus time. The speaker of this webinar was Dr. Joanne Crawford, an expert in stakeholder engagement from the Institute of Occupational Medicine, Edinburgh, UK.

Webinar Title: Stakeholder Engagement Presentation

Content: Stakeholder Engagement is the practice of influencing a variety of outcomes through consultation, communication, negotiation, compromise, and relationship building.  The aim of this interactive session is to increase your knowledge in relation to stakeholder engagement starting from the point of who the stakeholders are in your research project, the different types of stakeholders and developing an engagement plan throughout a project.

On completion of this session the attendees gained the below:

1. Understand the different levels of stakeholder
2. Be aware of the importance of planning stakeholder engagement throughout the project
3. Understand the risks of using stakeholders
4. Be aware that stakeholder engagement is the role of all team members not just one person

The presentation of the webinar is available here: Stakeholder-Engagement-in-Research-Projects.pdf