Skill: The Making of Modern Civilization

Paul Greenhalgh is internationally renowned as an historian of art, design and the decorative arts. He is currently director of the Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts, one of the UK’s principal institutions for the study and display of art. Prior to this he held a number of senior roles in several different countries, including head of research at the V&A Museum, director and president of the Corcoran Gallery of Art and College of Art and Design (USA), and President of NSCAD University (Canada). He has lectured and taught in leading organisations all over the world. Since returning to the UK in 2010, he has been invited by major institutions and the UK government to fill a number of national roles, including chair of the Research Excellence Framework (REF) for Art and Design and Art History, and chair of the Arts Advisory Committee of the University of Edinburgh. He is a senior honorary research fellow at the V&A Museum.