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Christine Weir
Christine Weir studied history at the University of Cambridge, trained and taught as a history teacher, and in 1976 accompanied her husband Tony to Fiji, where she taught in Fiji schools and undertook tutoring at the University of the South Pacific (USP) in social science and education. Later, while resident in Canberra, as well as supply teaching in ACT schools she returned to study at the Australian National University, completing a Ph.D. in Pacific history (2003) on missionary ideas about work in Fiji and the Solomon Islands. In 2007 Christine returned to Fiji as a lecturer in history at USP, and remained for seven years, teaching a variety of courses in Pacific and World history, and researching colonial and contemporary Christianity in the Pacific.