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
New Exhibition in SRU Library
Student exhibition 'Womanhood - Adorning the Body' now open
SRU Sponsored symposium in July at UEA
Bringing Light to the Dark:Visual Sovereignties in Contemporary Indigenous Art of the Americas"
Call for applications
British Academy Writing Workshops 2019, call for applications.
Robert Sainsbury Lecture
4th Robert Sainsbury Memorial Lecture 15 May 2019