Victoria Walsh is Head of Public Programmes at Tate Britain and the Tate lead investigator on a major three-year AHRC-funded project, ‘Tate Encounters: Britishness and Visual Culture’, examining the impact of social and cultural policy on museum practices and approaches to audience development. Previously, she worked as a research consultant at the London School of Economics on a report into the creative impact of national museums in the UK. As a freelance project manager she co-ordinated the competition to select an architect for Tate Modern and organised its opening in 2000. She has worked for the Mayor’s Cultural Office on the Fourth Plinth Project in Trafalgar Square, The Architecture Foundation on debates on the future of London (1996), the Architecture Centre Network and the BBC. She has published on the post-war British artists Nigel Henderson. Francis Bacon and Gilbert & George.