The College is pleased to announce that Dr Janet O’Sullivan has been elected as Vice-Master to succeed Dr Michael Tilby, who will retire at the end of this academic year.
Dr O’Sullivan is a Fellow in Law and also Dean of Selwyn. She went to a state school in Essex before reading Law at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, where she was senior scholar and graduated with the highest first in Part II of the Law tripos. She then worked as a commercial lawyer in the City firm Slaughter and May. In 1994 she was elected to a Fellowship at Selwyn, and has been director of studies in Law from then until the present day.
In 1996 she was also appointed to a University Lectureship in the Law Faculty, and subsequently promoted to a Senior Lectureship. In 2005, she won a Pilkington Teaching Prize for Excellence in University teaching. She was awarded a PhD in 2010 on the basis of published research.
The Master of Selwyn, Roger Mosey, said: “Michael Tilby has done a wonderful job as Vice-Master, and I’m delighted that Janet O’Sullivan has been chosen by the Fellowship to succeed him. She is liked and respected by colleagues, staff and students alike; and I’ll very much look forward to working with her to deliver the ambitions we all have for Selwyn.”
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