Our mission is to put people at the centre of projects, so the outcome is not only technically successful, but socially successful as well.
Aurora Engagements Limited was founded by Dr Sarah Fitton in 2019. Aurora Engagements is a small, responsive and flexible consultancy helping clients to develop people-centred solutions to their stakeholder engagement and social value challenges and opportunities within the Built Environment.
Sarah is a chartered town planner with over 15 years’ experience in the fields of stakeholder engagement and social value. She previously worked for a multidisciplinary consultancy working in a number of areas including town planning, transport planning, stakeholder engagement and social value. Sarah also achieved a PhD from Cambridge University in 2015. Her research focused on understanding how the social value of infrastructure projects is identified and articulated, using flood alleviation schemes as case studies. An integral part of the research examined how the stakeholder engagement process can either negatively or positively influence the identification and creation of social value. Following her PhD Sarah has published a number of peer reviewed journal articles on the subject of infrastructure, stakeholder engagement and social value.
Sarah uses her experience and skills of working in both industry and academia to bridge the gap between theory and practice.
Aurora Engagements uses theory, knowledge and practical techniques from both industry and academia to help clients deliver effective, early and collaborative stakeholder engagement. Examples of how we help clients include:
Aurora Engagements has been lucky to work with some great clients and collaborators since we began including:
Social value is a broad term that has come to capture many different things. Its demonstration is increasingly required for a multitude of purposes both within the public and private sector. Stakeholder engagement and social value are intrinsically linked, with a core principle of social value being the involvement of stakeholders.
Aurora Engagements uses theory, knowledge and practical techniques from both industry and academia to help clients understand, plan, identify, create, maximise, deliver and measure the social value of their projects and organisations.
Examples of how we help clients include:
The fields of stakeholder engagement and social value are constantly evolving with new techniques and applications and Aurora Engagements is passionate about contributing to the research agenda of both fields. Therefore, we can help clients design, collect data, analyse and report on both academic and industry research projects.
We create a bespoke scope for each, and every client so please get in touch to see how we can help and collaborate.
