Sainsbury Research Unit
Welcome. 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. As part of the School of Art History and World Art Studies it contributes to a substantial and lively scholarly community in the Sainsbury Centre.
Crescent Wing of the Sainsbury Centre
The SRU offers MA and PhD degrees, with generous scholarships and funding support. It also offers visiting fellowships for postdoctoral scholars and hosts regular symposia and academic meetings. Combining anthropological, art-historical, archaeological and museological approaches, SRU research and teaching are focused on the distinctive cultures of the three regions, especially how artworks and objects are made, used, and circulated – in effect, how they matter to people, both in their original contexts and in the contexts of museums and exhibitions. The MA and PhD programmes are intended for those interested in careers in higher education, museums and galleries, publishing, journalism and development.
The SRU makes full use of the Sainsbury Collection, on display in adjacent galleries, which is renowned for its works of art from the Americas, Africa, Asia and the Pacific, as well as for its antiquities and modern works by Picasso, Moore, Giacometti and Bacon.
News & Events
Fiji exhibition opening
Chiefs and Governors: Art and power in Fiji opens 7th June in Cambridge
Robert Sainsbury Library early closing
3.30pm Thu 6th June
Latest news on the AHRC Grant for missionary collections research.
African Archaeology Research Day 2013
'Africa’s material culture past and present'. Friday 1st - Saturday 2nd November, 2013, SIFA, UEA
Seated musician, Maya, UEA 650
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