Meet the Associates
The Consultation Institute has a network of carefully selected Associates – consultants or trainers with expertise and skills in a wide range of consultation and public engagement activities. They have experience in many business sectors including:
Central and Local Government, Health, Police, Fire and Rescue, Planning, Housing Infrastructure, Transport and many others. Via these Associates, the Consultation Institute can offer consultancy and training to the private and public sectors. For more information on individual associates, click on their photograph.
To become an Associate, experienced Practitioners should contact info@consultationinstitute.org with a comprehensive CV which we will consider.
Rebecca Addis
Expertise: Public engagement, online panels, focus groups, surveys, deliberative research and health & social care
Mike Bartram
Expertise: Developing and delivering consultation strategies, identifying and addressing risks, designing opinion research, across public sector with special focus on transport
Sue Cavill
Expertise: Consultation, communications, engagement, stakeholders management, extensive experience in the NHS
Dave Chetwyn
Expertise: Town planning, urban regeneration, neighbourhood planning, policy, urban design and conservation, community planning
Anna Collins
Expertise: Communication and reputation management, stakeholder engagement and consultation, corporate governance and programme management. Experience in the NHS and policing
Barry Creasy
Expertise: Methodology, Focus groups, Facilitation, Questionnaires, Evaluation, Research, Compliance
Kathy Graham
Expertise: Stakeholder engagement, strategic development and public policy with public, private and community and voluntary organisations
Damian Greenfield
Expertise: Transport policy concerning Nationally significant infrastructure and Development Consent Orders. Stakeholder Engagement & Community Consultations. Stakeholder Management. Operational and strategic support.
Steve Inett
Expertise: Health inequalities and deprived communities, consultation and public engagement, strategic development, stakeholder and relationship management, training, leadership and change management
Anna King
Expertise: Consultation and public engagement design and implementation. Stakeholder engagement. Stakeholder management. Extensive Local Government experience.
Caroline Latta
Expertise: Pre-consultation, options development, consultation, strategic communications, extensive NHS experience
Tessa Lynn
Expertise: Utilising and teaching research skills to more effectively engage people and communities who are seldom heard
Edward Mallam
Expertise: Public relations background. Operational and strategic support for consultation projects throughout the UK. Specialist public consultation and engagement areas are children and young people, local government and the water sector.
Peter McColl
Expertise: Public policy and futures in Scotland, the interaction of public bodies, innovation and the opportunities for change to make Scotland a fairer and more democratic nation.
Andy Mills
Expertise: Consultation, communications, engagement, public health, commissioning, qualitative methodologies, extensive experience in the NHS.
Brian Parry
Expertise: Consultation and public engagement design and implementation, strategic advice and guidance, facilitation, stakeholder management, and quality assurance
Paul Parsons
Expertise: Paul specialises in widening participation using accessible communication techniques to engage people and communities who some services described as ‘hard to reach’.
Susan Ritchie
Expertise: A social entrepreneur providing engagement services to the public and private sector, and reinvesting 50% of the profit into communities.
Ruth Shepherd
Expertise: Stakeholder Engagement & Community Consultations Consultancy - Construction Strategy, Communications & Public Relations
Paul Thistlethwaite
Expertise: Facilitation, communications, consultation, deliberative events, digital engagement, participatory decision-making
Maimie Thompson
Expertise: Public consultation, conflict resolution, stakeholder management, engagement, programme management, quality improvement and report writing
Kate Waller
Expertise: Public engagement, online forums, focus groups, deliberative research, ethnographic interviewing
Bruce Whitear
Expertise: Welsh public service and strategic partnership development, policy and service evaluation, extensive experience with the NHS and facilitator
Bethan Williams Price
Expertise: Communications, public consultation, stakeholder engagement, facilitator. Expert knowledge of projects in Wales. Fully bilingual in English and Welsh.
Andy Wright
Expertise: Social inclusion, digital engagement, consultation, communications, equalities, evaluation, health and regeneration