Bryan Bruns, Ph.D.

BryanBruns@BryanBruns.com

Consulting Sociologist: facilitating participation, helping organizations work with communities to improve land and water management, infrastructure development, and service delivery

Skills

• Design and facilitate public participation processes
• Social research: rapid appraisal, case studies, surveys, and action research
• Project design and review: proposal preparation, team leadership, project management, monitoring and evaluation
• Report writing, technical editing, and website development

Independent Consultant 1992-present, working with government agencies, businesses, and nonprofit organizations

Education

• Ph.D. Sociology of Development, Cornell University.
  Minor Fields: Agricultural Economics, Southeast Asian Studies
• M.S. Sociology of Development, Cornell University.
• B.A. Major in Anthropology, Beloit College.

Professional Memberships

• International Association for Public Participation - IAP2
• International Association for the Study of Common Property -IASCP
• Fellow of the Society for Applied Anthropology - SfAA

Representative Accomplishments

• Improved capacity of agencies and water user associations to work together
• Supported implementation of participatory irrigation management
• Designed social dimensions of rural development projects
• Led socioeconomic assessment of telecommunications network expansion
• Analyzed social issues in nanotechnology research and development
• Co-edited book: Negotiating Water Rights

Additional information available upon request. Contact: BryanBruns@BryanBruns.com