Dr Sarah Fitton is founder and Director of Aurora Engagements Ltd (https://auroraengagements.co.uk/), a Built Environment consultancy working with clients to understand how best to meaningfully engage with stakeholders and how the social value of their projects can be identified, created, articulated, maximised, measured and reported.

Sarah has over 17 years of experience working in industry in a large built environment consultancy before setting up her own firm. She also has over 13 years’ experience working in academia within the fields of social value and stakeholder engagement.  She graduated from Cambridge University in 2015 with a PhD examining the social value of infrastructure and continues to conduct research in this field, with three peer-reviewed journal articles published to date and two currently under review.  She is a guest lecturer on social value for the CEM (Construction Engineering Masters) course, and a guest lecturer and supervisor for the SLBE (Sustainability Leadership for the Built Environment) Masters course, both at the University of Cambridge.

Sarah is a Chartered Town Planner with the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) and has written think pieces for the associated industry magazine – The Planner.  She is a founding member of ‘Patn*’ – a Manchester-based community dedicated to shaping modern culture through placemaking – and a member of the Environment Agency’s Stakeholder Engagement and Communications Community of Practice (SECCOP).