SOCIAT Training Programme

What is it about?

The Social Impact Assessment Training (SOCIAT) program, offered by the University of Warwick in 2025, is a dynamic initiative designed to empower professionals involved in nature protection and restoration projects. This training equips participants with the essential skills to assess the social outcomes of conservation efforts, enhance governance structures, and bolster public support for environmental initiatives. It's also tailored for individuals responsible for subcontracting social impact assessments, ensuring comprehensive understanding and application.

Comprehensive Understanding of SOCIAT

Participants will delve into the theoretical and methodological framework of SOCIAT, a tool that has been successfully applied in over 27 sites.

Participatory Framework

The training builds on a participatory approach, capturing community perceptions and concerns to ensure that conservation efforts align with local values and needs.

Flexible Applications

SOCIAT is versatile, suitable for all stages of protected area designation and other nature restoration projects, ensuring its applicability across various contexts.

Practical steps of using SOCIAT

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Key stages of using SOCIAT

• Area and Stakeholder Identification: Defining the geographical focus and mapping key community groups.​

• Survey Protocol Development: Finalizing questions, choosing sampling methods, and selecting distribution channels.​

• Data Collection and Analysis: Monitoring response rates, coding data, identifying trends, capturing social impacts across space and predicting changes of impacts over time.​

• Reporting: Summarizing key findings for a wider audience, visualizing results, and providing actionable insights for governance improvements.​

Interested to join our training?

Our training programme has been significantly oversubscribed for 2025. If you are interested to join our training programme in the future please fill in this form.

Any questions?

If you would like to learn more about our training programme please get in touch at fidelio@warwick.ac.uk