Paul R W Jackson is Leader for Choreography and Dance at The University of Winchester (formerly University College Winchester), Hampshire in England. He is past Chair of the SCODHE (Standing Conference on Dance in Higher Education), the umbrella organization for British university dance departments. He has been Head of Music at Northumbria University where he also founded both dance degree programmes, having worked previously at the Arts Educational Schools (ArtsEd), Islington Arts Factory, Central School of Ballet and the CFPD in Poitiers, France.

Paul holds a BA Hons in Performing Arts from Middlesex University and a 'Master of Music with emphasis in Dance' from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. His teachers in dance have included Viola Farber, Erick Hawkins, Lonny Gordon, Kazuko Hirabayashi, Alfredo Corvino and Walter Nicks, and in music John Cage and Sir Malcolm Arnold.

As a dancer Paul has performed with the companies Gravity, Nonesuch and Artlink and has created roles in dances by artists as varied as Rudy Perez, Lonny Gordon, Gus Solomon Jr and Walter Nicks. He was also a member of the education teams of London Contemporary Dance Theatre, Extemporary Dance Theatre and Ballet Rambert. As a pianist he has worked with the Nevada Symphony Orchestra and as an accompanist to most of the major figures in dance including; Martha Graham, Robert Cohan, Merce Cunningham, Viola Farber and Richard Alston.

He has written extensively on dance and music/dance collaborations and in 1997 was awarded the Chris de Marigny Dance Writers Award. In October 2002 he presented the paper MacMillan and Music at the RAD Revealing MacMillan Conference and was a regular contributer to Dance Now.

Paul founded the 'Malcolm Arnold Society' and is the leading authority on his music. He is the author of ‘The Life and Music of Sir Malcolm Arnold: The Brilliant and the Dark’, published by Ashgate in 2003. This was the basis for Tony Palmer's film "Towards the Unknown Region: Sir Malcolm Arnold - a Story of Survival", commissioned by The South Bank Show. The film received its world premiere in September 2004 at the Royal Festival Hall, London and was screened 26th September 2004 and 3rd October 2004 as a two-part South Bank Show documentary. Paul is currently working on the authorised biography of Robert Cohan, founder of London Contemporary Dance Theatre.