ABOUT

Professor Toshio WatanabeProfessor Toshio Watanabe

Chelsea School of Art

Professor Toshio Watanabe is the Director of Research Centre for Transnational Art, Identity and Nation (TrAIN) of the University of the Arts London and is based at Chelsea College of Art and Design. Among others he was Chair of the Association of Art Historians, member of Tate Britain Council and a Board member of Historians of British Art. Currently he is the President of Japan Art History Forum.

His publications include High Victorian Japonisme and Ruskin in Japan. His current research interest is Japanese modern garden in transnational context and the historiography of Japanese Art History.

Arts & Humanities Research Council: Each year the AHRC provides approximately £100 million from the Government to support research and postgraduate study in the arts and humanities, from archaeology and English literature to design and dance. In any one year, the AHRC makes approximately 700 research awards and around 1,000 postgraduate awards. Awards are made after a rigorous peer review process, to ensure that only applications of the highest quality are funded. Arts and humanities researchers constitute nearly a quarter of all research-active staff in the higher education sector. The quality and range of research supported by this investment of public funds not only provides social and cultural benefits but also contributes to the economic success of the UK. See Arts & Humanities Research Council website.