Christine Trimingham Jack has been an academic in education at the Australian Catholic University, University of Canberra (Head of Primary Education) and currently at CSU.

Her main research area is as an educational historian with a current focus on boarding school trauma in which she has a number of published articles and a book: Recovering Boarding School Trauma Narratives (Routledge 2020). This book included a study of the school experience of Christopher Robin Milne.

She has also researched in the history of Catholic education including this history of lay sisters and is the author of Growing good Catholic Girls: Education and convent life in Australia (MUP 2003). An additional topic has been on images of female teachers in classic children’s literature. Female Teachers in Classic Children’s Literature: Charlote Brontë, Louise May Alcott, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Ethel Turner and Mary Grant Bruce, Australian National Museum of Education, University of Canberra, 2012.