Samuel Vince is a PhD candidate in the School of History of Art at the University of Edinburgh. He specialises in early 20th century Modernism with a particular interest in the British interwar period. Samuel is currently engaged with a thesis analysing Edinburgh artist Francis Cadell (1883-1937), arguing for alternate modes of identity and expression outside the historical accounts of Modernism in Scotland. He uses interdisciplinary approaches across art history, interior design, fashion, material culture, socio-cultural and queer history to develop the dynamic relationship between transatlantic Art Deco, subversive queer identity and Edinburgh's distinctly neo-classical New Town sub-culture. For this project, Samuel is excited to be drawing on the extensive archival resources of the Scottish capital.

Samuel has a masters through research degree in Collections and Curating Practices (MScR) also attained from the University of Edinburgh, before beginning his PhD in 2025. He has lectured extensively in the capital for diverse institutions, including art schools, societies and clubs, for which he has also organised larger programmes of art history talks. These have often had a Scottish focus over the 19th and 20th centuries, with particular interests in the Scottish Colourists, the pupils of Robert Scott Lauder and the New Edinburgh School. Alongside his thesis, he is working on an article examining Sir William Quiller Orchardson and his genre paintings at the British fin-de-siecle.