Professor Christine Halse - Centre Director

• Qualifications
• Grants and Current Projects
• Honours and Awards
• Selected Publications
• Contact

Professor Christine Halse is the Director of the Centre for Educational Research.

Christine Halse teaches and researches in the areas of: 

• theory and experience of social and cultural identities
• education policy and schooling
• narrative and life history methods
• educational evaluation
• doctoral education
• research ethics
• curriculum.

Chris is a leading scholar in inter-disciplinary research that examines the intersection between social policy, personal experience and the construction of identities. Her book A Terribly Wild Man: The life of the Rev Ernest Gribble (Allen & Unwin, 2002) examined how Aboriginal/non-Aboriginal relations and identities were shaped during the 20^th century, and was nominated for the ‘Westfield Waverly Award for Excellence in Research in the Creation of a Literary Work of Merit’. Inside Anorexia: The experiences of girls and their families (Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2008) used ‘family biographies’ to illustrate the diverse experience of anorexia amongst teenage girls.

Chris’ research agenda has focused on social science research relevant to educational reform. Her research and theorising of cultural relations has been applied to international education, assessment, studies of Asia, and environmental studies. She has led numerous evaluations for national and international education agencies to bring research to bear on social and educational policy, and has worked at a grassroots level with Indigenous communities, teachers and schools to link research and practical action, particularly in curriculum and teacher professional development.

Chris is a key figure in opening up questions about the relationship between ethical research and research ethics policy, and her writing on this topic is prescribed reading in university courses in the USA, UK and Australia.

Chris is committed to doctoral education and the development of early career researchers, as both areas of research and professional practice. She has received UWS and Carrick Institute awards for Excellence in Post-graduate Research Supervision, and her doctoral graduates have won academic posts, senior leadership appointments, and awards for their research and scholarship.

Chris has held invited appointments at the University of Seattle (USA), University of British Columbia (Canada), Seton Hall University (USA), Nagoya University (Japan) and the Hong Kong Institute of Education (China). She frequently serves on Steering and Advisory Committees for major curriculum and policy initiatives, and is in strong demand as a keynote speaker at national and international conferences for academics and educators.

Qualifications

BA Hons (Macquarie), DipEd (Macquarie), PhD (Queensland)

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Grants and Current Projects

Aboriginal Women’s Well-being Program; an evaluation of the YWCA community education program which aims to improve the health, fitness and nutrition of Aboriginal women and their families (YWCA, 2008).

Professor Halse is currently actively involved with the Greater Western Sydney Education Research Innovation Alliance with partners from NSW DET, and with the National Eating Disorders Collaboration facilitated by the Butterfly Foundation

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Honours and Awards

Advisory Professor, Hong Kong Institute of Education, SAR, China (2008-9)

Executive, Australian Association for Research in Education,(2008-11)

Carrick Institute Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning (2007)

Distinguished Visiting Professor and Research Fellow, Centre for Studies in Higher Education, Nagoya University, Japan (2006)

Vice Chancellor’s Excellence Award for Postgraduate Research Training and Supervision (nominated by students and graduates) (2006)

Vice Chancellor’s Excellence Award for Social Justice: Contribution to Aboriginal Education at UWS (2005)

Westfield Waverly Award for Excellence in Research in the Creation of a Literary Work of Merit’ nominee (2002)

Editor, Pacific-Asian Education, (1998-2002)

Australian/Indonesian Joint Selection Team, Australian Development Scheme (2002-2003)

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Selected Publications
Books

Halse, C., Honey, A., Boughtwood, D. (2008) Inside Anorexia: The Experiences of Girls and their Families, London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers.

Halse, C. (2002) A Terribly Wild Man: The Life of the Reverend Ernest Gribble, Sydney: Allen & Unwin.

Halse, C. (ed) (2000) The Influence of Asia on the West, Sydney: Government Publishing Service.

Chapters

Halse, C. (2009) Halse, C. Bio-citizenship: Virtue discourses and the creation of the bio-citizen, in J. Wright & V. Harwood (eds) Governing Bodies: Biopolitics and the 'Obesity Epidemic’, London: Routledge.

Halse, C. & Robinson, M. (1999) Towards an appropriate pedagogy for Aboriginal children, in R. Craven (ed) Teaching Aboriginal Studies, Sydney: Allen and Unwin.

Halse, C. (1999) Ernest Gribble, in J. Ritchie (ed) Australian Dictionary of Biography, 14, 1940-1980, Melbourne: Melbourne University Press.

Halse, C. (1996) The Reverend Ernest Gribble: A ‘successful’ missionary? In B. Dalton (ed) Lectures in North Queensland History, 5, Townsville: James Cook University.

Journal Articles

Halse, C., Deane, E., Hobson, J., & Jones, G. (2007) The research-teaching nexus: What do national teaching awards tells us? Studies in Higher Education 32 (6), 727-746.

Halse, C. Is the doctorate in crisis? (2007) Nagoya Journal of Studies in Higher Education, 7, April, 321-337.

Halse, C. & Honey, A. (2007) Rethinking ethics review as institutional discourse, in G. Cannela & Y. Lincoln (eds) Qualitative Inquiry: Special Issue on Ethics in Qualitative Research, 13 (3), 336-352.

Halse, C., Honey, A, & Boughtwood, D. (2007) The paradox of virtue: (re) thinking deviance, anorexia and schooling, Gender and Education, 19 (2), 219-235.

Halse, C. (2006) Reading/writing a life: The rhetorical practice of autobiography, Auto/biography 14 (2), 95-115.

Halse, C. & Honey, A. (2005) Unravelling Ethics: Illuminating the moral dilemmas of research ethics, in Sandra Harding (ed) Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society: Special Issue on New Feminist Approaches to Social Science Methodologies, 30 (4), 2142-2161.

Halse, C. (2004) The Identity of civics in teacher education, Pacific-Asian Education, 16 (1), 30 – 41.

Halse, C. (2004) Striving for Balance: Australian Perspectives on the Future of Schooling, in J. Cogan (ed) International Journal of Education Research: Special Issue on Schooling for the Future 41 (7-8), 523-533.

Halse, C. & Baumgart, N. (2000) Cross cultural perspectives of teachers: A study in three countries, International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 24 (4), 455-475.

Baumgart, N. & Halse, C. (1999) Approaches to learning across cultures: The role of assessment, Assessment in Education, 6 (3), 321-337.

Monographs and Reports

Halse, C., Saltmarsh, S., Glew, P. (2007) Engaging and Transforming Communities: The Finance First Project, Sydney: Citi Australia and YWCA NSW.

Halse, C. (2006) The values of NSW public schools: Case studies of policy and practice, Sydney: Government Publishing Service.

Halse, C. (2006) Models of doctoral supervision and the implications for research universities. report submitted to the Japanese Ministry of Education by the Centre of Studies for Higher Education, Nagoya University, Japan.

Halse, C. & Gearside, A. (2005) A genealogy of becoming researchers: The discursive and interactive construction of postgraduate supervision, postgraduate supervision in the College of Arts, Education, and Social Sciences, University of Western Sydney.

Craven, R., Halse, C., Marsh, H., Mooney, J., Wilson-Miller, J. (2005) Teaching the teachers aboriginal studies (Vol 1 & Vol 2) Canberra: Department of Education, Science and Training, Commonwealth of Australia.

Halse, C. (1999) Encountering cultures: The impact of study tours to Asia on Australian teachers and teaching practice. Melbourne: Asia Education Foundation.

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Contact

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