Paul Glinkowski is a writer and researcher specialising in the contemporary visual arts. He was a researcher and programme-maker at BBC Television before joining the Visual Arts Department at Arts Council England (ACE) in 1996, where the main focus of his work was support for the professional development of visual artists’. In 2003, he wrote the first publication to appear on open studios: Open Studios, a gem worth polishing. Other significant publications include Good Foundations: Trusts and Foundations and the Arts in the United Kingdom (2007), and A BBC Introduction to Modern and Contemporary Art (2000). Paul left the Arts Council in January 2004 to work as a freelance arts writer and consultant for organisations such as ACE and a-n, The Artists’ Information Company. In 2005 he was appointed Rootstein Hopkins Research Fellow at the University of the Arts London. The fellowship culminated in the publication in 2007 of Good Foundations. Recent research projects have included Maximising the MA Show, an examination of how well such shows cater for their audience, and Evaluating Sciart an impact assessment of the Wellcome Trust’s influential interdisciplinary funding scheme. He is currently working on an evaluation of the NESTA fellowship programme.