Sandra Kemp is an academic and curator with a background in English literature. She is the director, The Ruskin - Library, Museum and Research Centre at University of Lancaster and visiting professor in the Department of Materials at Imperial College London. She was previously a research associate at IMAGES&CO, and has held leadership roles in the university and cultural sectors, most recently as senior research fellow at the Victoria and Albert Museum, head of college, London College of Communication and director of research at the Royal College of Art (RCA). She curated the Wellcome Trust-sponsored exhibition Future Face: Image, Identity, Innovation at the Science Museum, with a related programme at the National Portrait Gallery, a film festival and a debate on BBC Radio Five Live. She has also published and given public lectures in the fields of fiction, literary theory and cultural studies.

The Ruskin - Library, Museum and Research Centre is an archive, Accredited Museum, and research centre at University of Lancaster, in the north of England. The Director of The Ruskin is Professor Sandra Kemp. Prior to 2019, The Ruskin - Library, Museum and Research Centre was known as the Ruskin Library.