Christine is a Senior Research Associate and UKRI Future Leaders Fellow at the Centre for Research in Play, Education, Development and Learning at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge.
Her research focuses on developing and testing interventions to promote young children’s wellbeing including early mental health, language development, and school adjustment. This includes work on the PlayBack programme which aims to promote positive school transitions for young children. Playback uses video feedback to strengthen the teacher-child relationship and support teachers in using guided play to promote children’s early school adjustment. Christine’s work situates innovation in the overarching principle of participatory design with and for children, families, schools and communities. She draws on state of the art approaches in service design, digital innovation and coproduction to increase the reach of programmes. She is especially committed to bringing children’s own voices into the systems and services that shape their lives.