Christine Halse was born and grew up in Sydney. She studied education at Macquarie University and gained her PhD in race relations at the University of Queensland. She is currently working at the University of Western Sydney, where much of her time is devoted to research and working with post-graduate students. Her research interests include cultural identity formation and relations between cultures and communities. She has published widely in these areas locally, nationally and internationally. An independent researcher for government and non-government organisations and national evaluator of institutions and education programs, Dr Halse is also an Executive member of the Aboriginal Studies Association and the Pacific Circle Consortium and Editor of the journal Pacific Asian Education. She plans to start sky-diving lessons on her 60th birthday. She is married and revelling in life with her daughter. A Terribly Wild Man is her first book.
