Christie van Tinteren is an anthropologist researching relationships between industrial change, time, memory, and inequality in rural Britain. Currently finishing his PhD at the University of Cambridge, his thesis examines a fishing town and two villages on the Cornish coast. On top of his present-day ethnographic work, he has gathered dozens of memoirs and diaries, written over the past 150 years in these locations. With these records, he is reconstructing insights into the socioeconomic, infrastructural, and political development of the area.

Interested in the multiple applications of anthropology, Christie has worked with the British government's Policy Lab on various research projects. In this, he has contributed to policymaking for Natural England, and the Ministries of Justice and Health and Social Care. His multifaceted approach to research - practicing ethnography, statistics, and modes of writing which cross the boundaries between fiction and non-fiction - drive an interest in the sorts of methodological innovations being made within Policy Lab and similar organisations around the world.

Christie holds an MSc in Comparative Social Policy from the University of Oxford, and a BSc in Social Anthropology from the London School of Economics (LSE). His PhD is funded through an Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Scholarship.