Dr Eleanor Quince BA, PhD
Lecturer in History, Employability Officer, Dissertations Convenor
Dr Eleanor Quince is a Lecturer in History at the University of Southampton.
Eleanor studied the history of fine and decorative art at the University of Leeds, before coming to Southampton to undertake a doctorate. Completing her PhD in 2003, Eleanor worked as a lecturer in Art History & Theory at Richmond, the American University, in London, before returning to Southampton in 2005. Eleanor's PhD thesis considered the work of Gillows, a furniture-making firm working in Lancaster and London during the eighteenth-century. She was awarded a University of Southampton Archival studentship to enable her to undertake her research and to make use of the Lindsay Boynton archive, part of the Hartley Library archival collections. Eleanor's work has always been interdisciplinary in nature and her resulting career has reflected this: she has taught architectural history to Archaeologists; ploughed through quantitative data to assess the health of research within Modern Languages and Linguistics; set up training programmes for doctoral students; investigated how to help Humanities students at all levels become more employable; and collaborated on an AHRC-funded project looking at the antique trade in the twentieth century. In recognition of her work in the field of educational development, Eleanor has been awarded a Senior Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy. Within the wider University, Eleanor works to further the institution's employability agenda. She is Chair of the University's Employability Strategy Network and an Academic Partner in the Southampton Opportunity project.