Professor Christine Hallett is Director of the UK Centre for the History of Nursing and Midwifery, Chair of the UK Association for the History of Nursing and President of the European Association for the History of Nursing. Christine trained as a nurse and health visitor in the 1980s and holds first degrees and PhDs in both Nursing and History. She practiced as a community nurse before becoming a lecturer at the University of Manchester in 1993. During her career at Manchester, she has published in the fields of nursing education, clinical practice, and history, and has successfully supervised eleven PhD students to completion. She is a co-editor for the academic book series, Nursing History and Humanities at Manchester University Press. Christine holds Fellowships of both the Royal Society of Medicine and the Royal Society for the Arts.