Welcome to the Sainsbury Research Unit
The Sainsbury Research Unit (SRU), based in the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts at the University of East Anglia, is a centre for the study of the arts of Africa, the Pacific region and the Americas, providing high quality facilities and a specialist research library for its staff, postgraduates and visiting scholars. The SRU offers an MA course and PhD supervision. MRes and MPhil options are also available.
As part of Art History and World Art Studies at UEA the SRU contributes to a substantial and lively scholarly community in the Sainsbury Centre.
News & Events
Autumn visiting fellow
SRU Autumn visiting fellow
'Rise of Divine Lordships in the Ancient Andes' field season completion
The 2019 field season for the ' Rise of Divine Lordships in the Ancient Andes ' project has ended, following a tremendously successful summer. Seven units were excavated across Pashash this...
Fieldwork underway in Peru
George Lau and team begin work on the 'Rise of Divine Lordships in the Ancient Andes' archaeology project
New Exhibition in SRU Library
Student exhibition 'Womanhood - Adorning the Body' now open