She is a development geographer and her research is focussed on the impacts of development schemes and neoliberal transformations on the everyday livelihoods and food security of marginalised groups in Southeast Asia. More recently, Christine has been working with these themes in the context of the Global North, exploring contested marketplace redevelopment in Dublin, Ireland and food waste commodity chains in Bristol, UK and Cologne, Germany. Christine recently co-authored the book Frontier Livelihoods: Hmong in the Sino Vietnamese Borderlands (University of Washington Press 2015) and has papers published in national and international journals.