KEY PRACTICE
- Action Research & Affective Outcomes
- Community Engagement & Audience Development
- Business Planning & Visioning
- Organisational Culture & Staff Development
- Participation Methodologies & Framework
- Evaluation Modelling & Framework
- Creative Commissioning & Cultural Production
- Group Wellbeing & Coaching
As a consultant, R.M. Sánchez-Camus works at the intersections of organisational development, EDI, engagement strategy and evaluation. His practice is grounded in two research strands—participatory governance and cultural democracy—and realised through frameworks that help museums, local authorities, universities and charities build accountable, imaginative public programmes.
Sánchez-Camus has served as Head of Delivery for Public Engagement and Learning at Imperial War Museums and co-led an AHRC EDI Fellowship (SAFEDI), publishing the Process and Findings Report and later “Socially Engaged Art in a New World Order” (JCMCP, 2023). He has also worked as part of a clinical team at St Christopher’s Hospice, specialising in arts and health. From this he published The Art of Dying: Aesthetics and Palliative Care in the Journal of Applied Arts & Health, Intellect Journal Vol. 2 Issue 2 (August 2011). His writing for Engage on turning community engagement into exhibition architecture, and earlier scholarship on aesthetics and palliative care (Journal of Applied Arts & Health) and creativity and health (Healthcare Analysis) give commissioners a rare blend of creative, ethical and methodological literacy. He also designs and teaches the CSM Creative Health & Wellbeing short course.
Advisory work typically combines visioning and business planning with participation methodologies and impact modelling—from building tools that measure qualitative change to coaching teams in facilitation and co-design. This is complemented by a track record of sector-facing speaking and convening (Social Art Summit/Assembly; UCL on the emotional labour of social practice; UAL on creativity and care).
Crucially, Sánchez-Camus keeps consultancy porous to practice: insights travel both ways from his role as ALAS director—where prototypes are tested with partners such as Whitechapel Gallery and community collaborators—and from his solo artistic work, which sustains the attentiveness to voice, place and symbolism that good policy needs. The result is a consultancy that is rigorous, creative and implementable.