Schools Liaison, Outreach and Recruitment Officer
As the Schools Liaison, Outreach and Recruitment Officer, I am responsible for working with schools, students, and teachers, primarily those from our link areas of Cumbria, Lancashire, Blackpool, Blackburn with Darwen, Lewisham, and Sutton. My role is to support students from backgrounds that have traditionally been underrepresented at Oxford University, providing them with information, advice, and guidance about university, life at Oxford, and how to make a competitive application.Â
Throughout the year, we welcome students to Queen’s for taster days with their school, residentials (including our North West Science Residential), and the University Open Days. I also visit students in their region, delivering talks and workshops in schools, colleges, or at UCAS fairs. I manage the Queen’s Outreach Instagram account (@queensoxaccess), allowing students who are unable to visit us in person to find out more about life at Queen’s.
Students and their supporters are always welcome to get in touch with me via email (schools.liaison@queens.ox.ac.uk) to ask any questions about applying to Queen’s or to Oxford more generally, to arrange a visit, or to discuss ways that I can support them in finding out more about higher education.
I attended a non-selective state school in Leeds, before moving to Oxford for my undergraduate degree in French and Spanish and MSt in French at Worcester College. Prior to joining Queen’s, I worked in access and outreach at Wadham College.
I joined the Queen’s College as the Academic Administrator in 2023. In this role, I oversee the College Office, which provides administrative support for the entirety of the Oxford student journey from admissions to tutorials and coursework, exams and assessments, and graduation. I am also the Disability Coordinator for Queen’s, which means I work with the University’s Disability Advisory Service to coordinate support and adjustments for students with disabilities.
I also work closely with the Senior Tutor on academic matters pertaining to teaching, learning, and research at the College, and I support a number of College Committees.
I am originally from the US. I grew up in New Mexico before moving to New York City for my undergraduate degree in English Literature. I moved to Oxford in 2013 to study for an MPhil in Social Anthropology. Prior to joining Queen’s, I worked in academic administration at Lady Margaret Hall and University College.
Admissions and Graduate Administrator
I moved to the UK in 2015 to read for the MA in Forensic Linguistics at Cardiff University. As a student ambassador, I was involved in the university’s open days, giving prospective students and their families a glimpse of the Cardiff student life and offering them a warm welcome to the Welsh capital. While working at the international students’ induction programme before my graduation, I realised how rewarding helping students can be and after a challenging year, I decided to pursue a career in international student recruitment in order to support prospective students on their journey from applying to university to starting a new chapter, like I once did from Greece, in the UK.
For three and a half years, I worked at Cardiff University’s International Office, where I had the opportunity to work closely with educational advisors, and get to know different markets and people from all over the world, as well as represent the university at fairs in the UK and overseas. In early 2020, I moved to Oxford and joined the Saïd Business School, this time to support current students during their studies, which gave me a new perspective on the challenges and academic demands that students experience. This setting ended up being a lot more challenging than I anticipated, on both a personal and professional level, as it coincided with a pandemic.
A year and a half later, my love and enthusiasm for admissions and student recruitment didn’t fade, and in September 2021, I joined Queen’s in a role that combines admissions and graduate student support, including graduate induction, enrolment, scholarships, and more. As Admissions and Graduate Administrator, I’m responsible for managing the different stages of the undergraduate and graduate admissions cycles. I work closely with the Tutor for Admissions on the undergraduate admissions exercise and the Tutor for Graduates on graduate admissions and business relating to on-course students.
As the College Office and Admissions Assistant, I provide administrative support to the undergraduate and postgraduate admissions processes and aid in the day-to-day operations of the College Office.