How I work

I support organisations and communities to navigate complexity in ethical, grounded and imaginative ways. My practice is grounded in relational, feminist and more-than-human approaches, supported by my doctoral training, and shaped by almost fifteen years of work spanning community development, facilitation, evaluation and practice-based research.

My approach is relational and co-designed. Rather than imposing frameworks, I begin with the conditions, histories and relations already present. This often means holding ambiguity, attending to power and participation, and making space for forms of knowledge that are usually overlooked.

Across all my work, I prioritise care, access and equity, supporting the need for clarity and accountability without flattening complexity and difference.

Core offerings

Relational evaluation + learning

I support organisations to understand what their work is really doing - beyond tick-box outcomes.

Drawing on postqualitative research methodologies, feminist ethics of care, and creative tools, I co-design evaluation processes that:

centre lived and more-than-human experience
make space for ambiguity, contradiction and learning
produce outputs that are meaningful to communities and legible to funders

Outputs may include high-level or summarative reports, visual or creative artefacts, learning frameworks, reflective tools, or funder-facing summaries.

Participatory + place-based project design

I work with teams at the beginning of projects - when things still feel uncertain - to shape approaches that are ethical, situated and sustainable.

This might include:

co-designing participatory approaches that don’t overburden or alienate communities
sense-checking power, access and care dynamics
designing slower, place-attuned ways of working

This work often prevents problems later - supporting projects to be fundable, accountable and relationally grounded from the outset.

Creative curation + resource design

I design immersive creative programmes and tools that centre community knowledge, ecological systems thinking and imaginative possibility.

This work includes:

tailored creative facilitation (e.g. grief, ecology, systems, story)
co-designed tools and resources such as zines, field guides and sensorial kits
community archiving and living libraries that gather stories, practices and shared knowledge

Formats include immersive workshops, co-created resources, community archives and living libraries.

Project incubation + critical companionship

I support individuals and small teams developing projects, practices or ideas that live between categories.

This support is:

relational, creative and strategically grounded
attentive to emergence, uncertainty and ethical alignment
supportive of confidence, capacity and sustainability

It includes creative companionship, project shaping, reflexive mentorship and gentle accountability over time.

Research, writing + facilitation

I undertake collaborative research, practice-based inquiry, writing and pedagogical projects aligned with my wider work on care, dis/belonging, more-than-human relations and urban ecologies.

This includes commissioned writing, co-authored publications, creative research outputs and experimental formats.

I take on a small number of projects by invitation and strong alignment.

Get in Touch

hello@raewillcox.com