Our People
We have built a strong professional team that combines technical skills and professional experience in economic and social development with sound judgement, honesty and clear thinking.
Our consultants have backgrounds in academia, economic development agencies, community organisations and the private sector, bringing a range of different perspectives to our work.
Susan Guy, Associate Consultant
Susan Guy is recognised nationally and internationally for her pioneering work on community research, consultation, and evaluation. She has unrivalled expertise in participatory research design, training, management, and facilitation. She has advised many governmental and public bodies on their approach to consultation and worked with communities across the UK to ensure that they have a real say in the issues/services that affect them. She uses robust, innovative, and socially inclusive methods that work in a variety of situations. Rather than using any packaged or labelled approach, she adapts or invents techniques that aim to secure wide-ranging stakeholder participation.
Before moving to Scotland in the late 1980’s, Susan was Project Manager with the National Gallery of Canada. She was then a major influence in the introduction and spread of Participatory Appraisal (PA) methodologies and training to the UK in the early 1990s. Susan has been a director of Scottish Participatory Initiatives (SPI) and a leading community consultation trainer and practitioner since 1993. She holds a masters degree in Landscape Architecture and Planning from the University of Guelph (Canada) and is trained and expert in the use of very many research/consultation tools.