Christine is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Physics at UNSW Sydney where she teaches physics and leads the research arm of the group Physics Education Research for Evidence Centred Teaching (PERfECT). She completed her PhD in Physics Education Research at the University of Sydney, has held positions at various universities in Norway, and has been a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the University of Colorado Boulder, USA. Christine is passionate about using student active teaching methods in her courses and in supporting other academics in doing so as well. Her research focuses on improving physics teaching in higher education, currently with a specific focus on student understanding of astronomical scale.