Joanne Harvatt
Project Manager
Key Skills
- » Social Science & Market Research
- » Stakeholder / Community Engagement & Resilience
- » Flood Resilience & Public Responses to Hazards
- » Non-Structural Responses & Flood Risk Management
Short Biography
After completing her PhD in 2007, Joanne joined JBA Consulting as an Environmental Social Scientist. Joanne is a JBA Project Manager and has led on flood risk management projects, which involve a range of stakeholder engagement and public participation activities for local authorities, the Environment Agency and Defra. She has over eight years' experience of consultation exercises with householders, farmers, community groups, coastal stakeholders and risk managers. Her experience includes a range of qualitative and quantitative research methodologies including questionnaires (online, door-to-door and postal); interviews (face-to-face and telephone); focus groups, mini-groups and workshops.
Joanne is an experienced workshop facilitator with three days' professional training in stakeholder engagement and workshop facilitation. Her skills have been applied in numerous projects in particular, through the design and facilitation of workshops as part of the Environment Agency National Duty Officer Support Assessment project and through the moderation of 12 focus groups as part of the Defra UKCP09 project.
Joanne has managed and supported a variety of projects within Flood Risk Management. She is currently project managing the development of a Coastal Adaptation Stakeholder Engagement Plan and will be delivering stakeholder engagement training to members of the Sefton Coastal Partnership. She successfully project managed the Tees Catchment Flood Management Plan (CFMP) for the North East Environment Agency Region, and has been heavily involved in policy appraisal across all Yorkshire and the North East CFMPs. She has undertaken Level 1 and 2 Project Management training to refine her skills in planning, resourcing and project budgeting. She has undertaken one-to-one coaching with a Master Practitioner in Communications and Neuro Linguistic Programming and recently delivered 36 presentations to coastal communities to test climate change messages.
Through her PhD research, Joanne has a detailed knowledge of the public’s understanding of, and precautionary responses to natural hazards in the UK (flooding, sea-level rise and radon gas) and has gained valuable experience working with individual householders and community groups.
