MsEleanor Childs

Eleanor Childs is a Graduate Researcher Teaching Fellow in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences and a Graduate Researcher in the Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation at Deakin University, Australia.

Eleanor has published several journal articles and scholarly book chapters on the destruction of cultural heritage in Iraq, Syria, and Palestine. She has also acted as a Research Assistant for the Australian Research Council (ARC) funded project After Islamic State: Local-State-Global Heritage Dynamics in Syria and Iraq (2020-2024) and is currently a Research Fellow for the ARC funded project Heritage and Displacement: Intersections of Exile, Culture and Conflict (2026-2030). 

Eleanor has taught undergraduate seminars in Political Science, International Relations, and Middle East Studies.