About Us
Ben Cave, Director
Ben Cave is Director of Ben Cave Associates (BCA). Core areas of Ben’s work are health impact assessment and integrating health into the development planning process.
He has a strong background in action research, social sciences and public health. He provides training and policy advice to, and writes for, a range of organisations.
He worked with the World Health Organization to co-author the health chapter of the UNECE Guidance Manual on Strategic Environmental Assessment. He is currently working on a number of Strategic Environmental Assessments and Sustainability Appraisals. He has provided training in EIA, SEA and health for the International Association of Impact Assessment. This work is contributing to international developments in impact assessment.
He is the co-chair of the health section of the International Association for Impact Assessment and a Visiting Research Fellow at Queen Mary University of London. He is regularly invited to speak at national and international conferences.
Paul Iggulden, Senior Associate Consultant
Paul Iggulden is a Public Health Consultant with almost twenty years public sector experience gained largely through a range of roles in the NHS. He has worked at Associate Director level in Public Health including Health Promotion, Community Development and programme evaluation.
Paul is passionate about reducing inequalities and carries a strong conviction that self-esteem is central to the issue of health inequalities.
Paul's NHS experience embraces local, national and international level work, includes analytical roles such as Public Health Epidemiologist, Project management including a $3m per annum collaborative project with an American College and a time as a Knowledge Manager. He has collaborated with European partners on a EU funded Health Informatics project.
Andy Pratt, Associate consultant
Andy’s experience includes: sustainable development, campaigning for social change, public health and the environment, European & UK social policy, regeneration & social inclusion and south west regional issues.
He has experience of international development work and community consultation in various settings.
Andy also works as a Health and Equity Impact Assessment specialist practitioner at the Public Health Development Unit at Plymouth Primary Care Trust.
Andy’s work as an HIA specialist practitioner involves influencing policy by engaging with local elected members, council officers and the voluntary sector. Andy lead the PCT input to the SEA of the Local Development Framework.
He is an Associate Lecturer in Public Health at the University of Plymouth and a Director of the Wessex Reinvestment Trust (a leading community finance organisation).
He served in a voluntary capacity on the Regional Environmental Protection Advisory Committee of the Environment Agency South West. He delivers training in HIA and has spoken at a number of national conferences on health impact assessment. He has an interest in ‘the politics of land’ and is a contributor to The Land magazine.
Dr. Caoimhe McAvinchey, Associate consultant
Caoimhe is a Lecturer at Goldsmith’s College London. She has extensive experience of participatory performance projects in local and international contexts. A key focus is in using performance to enable marginalised groups to engage in dialogue with policy-makers.
Recently she has been developing a performance programme with women in prisons in Brazil and the UK as part of Staging Human Rights, an international participatory arts programme working with those who live and work in prisons.
Caoimhe’s PhD looked at Practice Based Research and is called 'Boundaries in Question: Women, Prison and Performance'. She was a Fulbright Scholar at New York University.
Lynne Ainsworth, Office Manager
Lynne brings experience of large and small scale office environments. From 2002 to 2007 she worked for a government funded organisation, representing a specific industrial sector in the UK. She was responsible to the Director of Finance and Resources, and managed the administration support facility and the office environment. This required the supervision of a team of Administrators who support Project Managers/Directors and all aspects of facilities management within an office of 30 people.
From 1990 to 2002 Lynne was training manager for a National Employers’ Association for the Furniture Manufacturing Industry and managed contracts with a number of Learning & Skills Councils for the delivery of training for young people on Young Apprenticeship programmes.