"Christine is Professor of Maternal and Child Health, School of Health Sciences, where she is joint research lead in the Centre for Research in Maternal and Child Health and Senior Tutor for Research. She teaches at Undergraduate, Masters and Doctoral level as well as conducting and supporting a range of research projects. Her key interests are in maternity and women's health, with particular interests in institutions and service change and reform, on women's experiences of childbirth and maternity care and in the culture and organisation of maternity care. She has worked over a number of years on applying anthropological theory and methodology to studying 'western' healthcare and she is also the managing editor of the international journal on applied anthropology, Anthropology in Action. Christine initially worked and studied at the London School of Economics where her degree and PhD were in anthropology. Her key interest at doctoral level was in applying anthropological theory and methodology to studying 'western' healthcare. After working at Brunel University and then as a senior researcher for Hammersmith Hospitals NHS Trust, she moved to Thames Valley University where was Professor of Anthropology and Health and Head of the Centre for Research in Midwifery and Childbirth. She joined City University's School of Health Sciences in 2010. Her main area of work has been on maternity and women's health, with particular interests in institutions and service change and reform, on women's experiences of childbirth and maternity care and in the culture and organisation of maternity care."

Application of anthropological theory and methodology to studying 'western' healthcare ; Maternal and child health; Health policy; Institutions and service change and reform; Women's experiences of childbirth and maternity care; Culture and organisation of maternity care; Concepts of quality and safety, cultural safety and experiences of minority ethnic groups.