DEMOS

Robert is an expert on the work of John Ruskin, having published half a dozen titles on aspects of his work and ideas, and co-curated the Ruskin centenary exhibition at Tate Britain in 2000. In the field of contemporary culture, among other works he is the author of The Heritage Industry and Culture and Consensus: England, Art and Politics since 1940. A former Slade Professor of Fine Art at Oxford, he is an Honorary Professor at Lancaster University and a Visiting Professor at City University, where he works in the field of cultural policy and leadership development. With John Holden he helped to devise the Clore Leadership Programme, and has contributed to several Demos reports in the field of cultural policy.  He has written on theatre and the arts for the Sunday Times since 1981.