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Facilitating high-calibre research of its staff, students and visiting scholars is one of the fundamental aims of the SRU.
Aided by a specialist library, on-campus collections and a network of research collaborators in the UK and abroad, SRU research is committed to widening knowledge about the arts and cultures of Africa, the Pacific and the Americas.
SRU research is also interested in informed, cross-cultural comparisons between the different geographic regions, such as in the technology of making, objects in ritual, monuments and landscape, value and valuables, memory and ancestors, and collections/displays.
Besides the geographic reach, the research projects of staff, students and fellows often seek to transcend traditional boundaries of disciplines (such as art history, anthropology and archaeology), especially their associated forms of evidence, methods of enquiry, and theoretical perspectives. Fieldwork in the different regions is also vital in SRU research – to develop new data and understandings while deepening familiarity/engagement with local groups, environments and materials.
Academic Staff
For details of the research work undertaken by individual members of faculty, follow the linked names to their pages on the SRU for the Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas page.
The research of the SRU generates a variety of outputs including publications, exhibitions, catalogues, conferences, symposia and lectures, aimed at both scholarly and general audiences. Members of SRU faculty also contribute with colleagues from other parts of UEA, the Sainsbury Centre, and related institutions to the editorial board of World Art Journal, a peer-reviewed academic publication which 'considers art across time, place and culture' and 'encourages critical reflection at the intersections of theory, method and practice'.
For larger research projects conducted by members of the SRU, the SRU projects section on the UEA Research Portal.