Jane Selby studied babies for her Masters at St. Andrews, Scotland, an interest that continued as National Research Fellow at La Trobe University, Australia, after gaining a PhD from the Child Care and Development Group, Cambridge University for her study of ‘Feminine Identity and Contradiction’. Since 1986 she has built clinical psychology practices in the UK and Australia, conducted research with Australian Indigenous groups as Senior Research Fellow at James Cook University, and with youth ‘at risk’ in New South Wales. Whilst lecturing at Charles Sturt University, she set up an infant laboratory with Ben Bradley in 1998.