Senior Tutor

Ms Katie Allan

BA LLB (Bond), BCL (Dist) MPhil (Oxon)Associate Dean of Graduate House

Together with the Warden, the Senior Tutor leads the academic and educational life of the College across all disciplines, and presides over the Senior Common Room.  She has responsibility for all College academic resources, the educational, tutorial and mentoring programs, and much more. The Senior Tutor takes a pastoral and personal interest in the well-being and academic progress of all members of College, whether at undergraduate, post-graduate, doctoral or post-doctoral levels.

The Senior Tutor is supported by the Associate Senior Tutor (who is responsible for managing the tutorial and mentoring programs), the Assistant Senior Tutors, and the Student Deans.

Katie is a doctoral researcher at New College, University of Oxford, examining how courts adjudicate challenges to public health and public housing provision. Katie is particularly interested in questions about the allocation and distribution of scarce resources and how administrative law may be imagined as we think about these questions.

At Exeter College, Oxford and at Bond University, Katie has taught both undergraduate law and JD students in Equity, Land Law, and foundational Australian law. During her time at Oxford, she was Sub-Dean at Magdalen College as part of the college welfare team.

Katie has worked as a native title and resources lawyer and as a judge’s associate in Queensland. In the UK, Katie has worked for the Ministry of Justice as Judicial Assistant to the Master of the Rolls.

Katie hold a BCL (Dist) and MPhil from the University of Oxford and a Bachelor of Laws and Bachelor of Arts from Bond University.