Associate Professor Christine Mingins

Associate Professor Christine Mingins was born in New Zealand in 1947 and completed her education at Whanganui Girls' College and Canterbury University, where she earned her degree in Pre-Revolutionary Russian History and Early English Language Studies before emigrating to Australia in 1967.

Her early career was as a Computer Programmer at Local Authorities Superannuation Board and Programmer at Dunlop Automotive. She commenced as a Systems Programmer at Monash University’s Computer Centre, where she tutored engineers in Fortran and developed computing systems using punch card technology.

Associate Professor Mingins commenced her academic teaching and research career as a Senior Lecturer at Prahran College (1972 to 1980), where she developed pioneering microcomputers courses focusing on spreadsheets, databases, and word processing. Following the merger with Monash University in 1980, she continued as Senior Lecturer and then Associate Professor in the Faculty of Business and Faculty of Information Technology. During her career, she supervised multiple doctoral students and was promoted to Head of Information Technology at Clayton Campus.

During her time at Monash University, she was selected as a participant in Monash Senior Women's Advancement Scheme and secured Associate Professorship in Information Technology and served as Head of Department overseeing significant expansion of information technology programs. Associate Professor Mingins was instrumental in the complex faculty restructuring during Monash's merger with Caulfield Institute of Technology and Prahran College.

Associate Professor Mingins was influential in the areas of industry engagement and entrepreneurship. She collaborated with Microsoft on .NET technology development and Eiffel programming language initiatives and contributed to international software standards development through involvement with programming language committees. She was the Co-founder of Redify training and consulting initiative and a Consultant for Microsoft on software standards. Associate Professor Mingins also co-founded medical imaging startup developing healthcare Information technology systems with Western Australian cardiologist partner (2009) and successfully commercialised medical imaging and reporting software. During her career, she maintained close collaboration with international information technology leaders including Dr Bertrand Meyer, creator of the Eiffel language.

She lives in Melbourne and enjoys spending time with her two grandchildren.