Webinars

Local governments of all sizes are already reaching more residents and streamlining their engagement initiatives through Go Vocal’s participation platform. Watch our webinars here, where we reveal key tips and discuss best practices with experienced practitioners.

June 25, 2024
Designing better surveys

Designing better surveys

Surveys are the “bread and butter” of consultation and engagement work - and in recognition we’ve recently made improvements to our native survey tool. However, there is an art to asking the right questions in the right sequence and with the right prompts. After all, we don’t want residents to abandon the process due to frustration or have gaps in our understanding of the issues. And there are some subtle differences between online and offline designs that need to be accounted for. So, at a time when consultations have been challenged in court over a single dubious question or the lack of a key questions, getting things right is paramount. What are the necessary ingredients for creating a good resident experience with such a blunt tool? How can we avoid clouding issues? Join us for the answers.

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Past webinars

Maximising efficiency in community engagement with AI

Go Vocal makes engagement more efficient and inclusive. Discover how our AI assistant slashes analysis time by 50%, turning a day's work into mere hours, and how you can bring offline input to your digital platform with our Form Sync feature.

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Engaging the public on planning policy: raising the bar with AI

In this webinar, you'll hear how West Oxfordshire successfully leveraged our platform to enhance the resident engagement journey and improve input analysis with our AI Sensemaking module.

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Digital engagement in the local planning process

In this session, we examine the policy background behind the local plan, how resident engagement fits into it, and how Havant Borough leveraged digital engagement tools to consult residents on a Regulation 18 planning policy.

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Going beyond survey consultations

As a council, it is important to be more ambitious about participation and explore engagement methods beyond traditional survey consultations. But how do you start a real dialogue? When is the best time to use a particular participation method, and what should you pay attention to?

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Involving residents in urban planning & regeneration projects

We invited planning & regeneration officers from the London Boroughs of Camden and Newham to discuss how they involved residents in the engagement projects, the key elements to a successful consultation, and how they leveraged public insights to inform reporting and decision-making.

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Engaging young residents in the policy-making process

During this webinar, we discussed successful examples of youth engagement at the local level with Donna Anderson, Participation and Democracy Officer at North Ayrshire Council, and Jez Hall, founding director of the social enterprise Shared Future CIC.

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Citizens' assemblies on a local scale

In this webinar, we chat with Sarah Allan, Head of Engagement at Involve UK, and Professor Graham Smith of the University of Westminster to discuss how to translate this concept to a council or city level.

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