Hi All,
Please join the YPP for their next presentation on Thursday the 2nd of July titled “Understanding a Social License to Operate”
Venue will be at The Wakefield Hotel, Adelaide.
Drinks and nibbles from 5:30pm for a 6:00pm start. RSVP by COB June 29th 2015 to
More details below
Dr Craig Styan, Senior Lecturer and Director of Research at UCL Australia (University College London)
The resources and energy sectors are facing ever greater expectations from stakeholders and questions about their ‘Social Licence to Operate’. While industry often assumes it may have a SLO, getting this wrong can result in communities withdrawing support for a development, or even entire industries, in turn leading to costly delays and in some cases the removal of regulatory permission as well. Perhaps the hardest thing for industry to deal with is that a SLO is not actually a formal licence as such, but is more about an approach to working with stakeholders. In this talk I’ll briefly explain what a SLO is, the sorts of things needed to obtain one and how easy it is to quickly lose a SLO again. I’ll highlight important recent research findings and also outline work currently being done in this area by UCL.
About the Presenter:
Dr Craig Styan is a Senior Lecturer and Director of Research at UCL Australia, University College London. Craig’s research focusses on monitoring and managing the environmental impacts of energy and resources developments, but he also has an interest in the social aspects of development and teaches a course on “Social Licence to Operate” at UCL. Prior to joining UCL, Craig worked as a consultant in Western Australia, running large scale monitoring programs for port developments such as the Gorgon and Wheatstone LNG projects. Before that, Craig taught marine ecology and statistics at the University of Sydney and then Deakin University. He has also held post-doctoral research positions at the University of Melbourne and the South Australian Research and Development Institute and is the author of 30 scientific papers and a large number of technical reports for industry.
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