Kieron Bailey

My expertise is in the design, delivery and evaluation of high-performance participatory systems. With my colleagues, I have managed and delivered a wide range of successful public and stakeholder involvement processes in support of major infrastructure and planning projects and policy and management decisionmaking. These projects range from large context-sensitive bridge design in the US, to issue probing for Scottish Independence forums. My partners include Federal, State and local agencies, and private sector consulting firms. My research addresses the challenges of delivering and measuring effective participation in complex domains such as transportation or energy infrastructure, or environmental management, where many stakeholders with competing values must be included in as equitable a way as possible. My professional goal is integrating cutting-edge research into real-world projects to deliver and document high performance in challenging situations, with large and controversial projects involving many stakeholders and citizens. Highlights: High performance participatory and collaborative methods for public goods projects (e.g. civil engineering, urban and transportation planning, environmental management) Design, delivery and measurement of public involvement protocols Research effective role of high technology for improved governance More than fifty peer-review publications Q, I, C and E metrics for measuring participation quality Mean Q-score of 8.2 (scale 1 to 10, open public polling, over eighteen years, thirty projects) More than twelve thousand stakeholders involved Co-developer of the Structured Public Involvement (SPI) protocol (with Dr. Ted Grossardt) Developer of Casewise Visual Evaluation (CAVE) and Analytic Minimum Impedance Surface (AMIS) methods Defined Arnstein Gap (quantification of perceived deficit in public involvement quality) Training in high-performance public involvement systems Process measurement and comparison