Sara Selwood

Sara Selwood is an independent consultant and a Professor of Cultural Policy and Management at City University, London.

She has a background in fine art, aesthetics, history and theory of art, and worked as an art historian and a curator of contemporary visual art before becoming a cultural analyst. Much of her work focuses on cultural policy and the subsidised cultural sector. She has written extensively on the relationship between the expectations of policy, its implementation, funding and the publics’ experience of cultural provision. She is currently chairing a review of the government-funded programme, Renaissance in the Regions.

Sara is currently a Trustee of the National Portrait Gallery, a board member of Arts Research Limited and is on the Museums Association Governing Bodies Forum.


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Home About us What we do Who we are Cultural Metropolis Culture and London 2012 News Events and meetings Publications Contact	Sara Selwood Sara Selwood is an independent consultant and a Professor of Cultural Policy and Management at City University, London. She has a background in fine art, aesthetics, history and theory of art, and worked as an art historian and a curator of contemporary visual art before becoming a cultural analyst. Much of her work focuses on cultural policy and the subsidised cultural sector. She has written extensively on the relationship between the expectations of policy, its implementation, funding and the publics’ experience of cultural provision. She is currently chairing a review of the government-funded programme, Renaissance in the Regions. Sara is currently a Trustee of the National Portrait Gallery, a board member of Arts Research Limited and is on the Museums Association Governing Bodies Forum.