Anita Quye

Anita Quye

ORCID: 0000-0001-6962-6018


Anita Quye is the Senior Lecturer in Conservation Science at the Centre for Textile Conservation and Technical Art History and currently Head of History of Art, University of Glasgow. She specialises in the chemical characterisation of historical dyes and synthetic plastics and fibres in museum artefacts and archives, with a particular interest in nineteenth-century industrial production processes of commercial materials, and leads the new postgraduate program "Modern Material Artefacts" at the University of Glasgow. She has published widely in the field, including the co-edited book Plastics: Collecting and Conserving, and initiated several interdisciplinary research and knowledge exchange networks for historical plastics and textile manufacture. Prior to her lectureship, Anita was Principal Scientist in the Department of Conservation and Analytical Research at National Museums Scotland (1989-2010). Anita has a BSc (Hons) in Chemistry from the University of Strathclyde and a PhD in Forensic Toxicology from the University of Glasgow.

Anita Quye

Anita Quye

ORCID: 0000-0001-6962-6018


Anita Quye is the Senior Lecturer in Conservation Science at the Centre for Textile Conservation and Technical Art History and currently Head of History of Art, University of Glasgow. She specialises in the chemical characterisation of historical dyes and synthetic plastics and fibres in museum artefacts and archives, with a particular interest in nineteenth-century industrial production processes of commercial materials, and leads the new postgraduate program "Modern Material Artefacts" at the University of Glasgow. She has published widely in the field, including the co-edited book Plastics: Collecting and Conserving, and initiated several interdisciplinary research and knowledge exchange networks for historical plastics and textile manufacture. Prior to her lectureship, Anita was Principal Scientist in the Department of Conservation and Analytical Research at National Museums Scotland (1989-2010). Anita has a BSc (Hons) in Chemistry from the University of Strathclyde and a PhD in Forensic Toxicology from the University of Glasgow.