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Professional Support Staff 

Name and Contact Information

Job Title  Role Summary

Mr Luke Bainbridge

 

law.communications@durham.ac.uk

Learning and Teaching Administrator
  • Works 50% Communications and 50% Learning and Teaching
  • Social Media Updates
  • Website and Internal Hub updates
  • Supporting the Learning and Teaching team

Miss Jessica Banks

 

jessica.banks@durham.ac.uk 

Business Development Manager
  • Durham Law School Alumni Association and member of the Executive Committee
  • Strategic oversight of Summer School offering
  • Management of externally facing prizes and scholarships
  • Management of Durham Law School merchandise
  • Development of external relations with relevant stakeholders  
  • Inboxes are managed Monday to Friday and my usual working days in the office at Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday

Miss Hayley Barnes

 

law.researchofficer@durham.ac.uk 

Senior Research Administrator
  • Casual recruitment of research assistants/Buyouts/PDRA’s and CDF posts
  • Events – Staff seminars, online events, zoom
  • Funding – Law Research fund, Personal research accounts, external grant applications
  • Website, social media and SharePoint (Research centres/Research)
  • Research leave applications/ reports
  • Visiting Scholars and Professors
  • REF and output reviews (DPC)
  • Workload model – Research tab
  • Worktribe
  • REF and impact
  • Mentoring
  • Other research administration support

Mrs Louise Cruddace

 

law.reception@durham.ac.uk

Reception Helpdesk Assistant 
  • Room bookings (non-teaching commitments)
  • Control law school keys
  • Incoming and outgoing post
  • Staff directory

Mr Alan Dobson

 

law.financeadministrator@durham.ac.uk

Finance Administrator TBC

Miss Joanne Emerson 

 

law.ltcoordinator@durham.ac.uk 

Learning and Teaching Coordinator 
  • Assessment
  • Student Queries
  • Exam Queries
  • Module Registration
  • Module Queries

Mr Richard Gwalchmai 

 

richard.v.gwalchmai@durham.ac.uk 

School Manager 
  • Strategic Planning
  • Academic Recruitment
  • Space and Estates
  • Department Progression Contact
  • Health and Safety
  • HR related matters
  • Strategic Finance Including Budget Management
  • Academic Staff Workload Management
  • Overall responsibility for the School Professional Services Teams

Miss Hayley Hewitson

 

law.ltmanager@durham.ac.uk

Learning and Teaching Assistant Manager 
  • Teaching Workload
  • Timetable
  • Assessment Management
  • Education policies and practices

Miss Elizabeth Millican 

 

law.taughtprogrammes@durham.ac.uk

Learning and Teaching Administrator 
  • Exams
  • Assessment
  • Specific Module Queries
  • Student or teaching queries
  • One of the main points of contact for day to day student and staff queries

Mrs Victoria Mortlock 

 

law.researchofficer@durham.ac.uk

Postgraduate Research Coordinator 
  • PGR queries for current students, including regarding supervision, concessions or use of the PGR fund
  • PGR queries for incoming students, including application or scholarship queries
  • HR-related PTTA queries including payment for additional hours (for teaching queries please send these to law.ltmanager@durham.ac.uk)
  • Casual recruitment of research assistants
  • Processing of Visiting and Honorary titles

Miss Bertha Moyo

 

law.taughtprogrammes@durham.ac.uk

Learning and Teaching Administrator
  • Exams
  • Assessment
  • Specific Module Queries
  • Student or teaching queries
  • One of the main points of contact for day to day student and staff queries

Mrs Louise Richards

 

law.reception@durham.ac.uk

Reception Helpdesk Assistant 
  • Room bookings (non-teaching commitments)
  • Control law school keys
  • Incoming and outgoing post
  • Staff directory

Mrs Lynsey Reay

 

law.ltcoordinator@durham.ac.uk 

Learning and Teaching Coordinator
  • Assessment
  • Student Queries
  • Exam Queries
  • Module Registration
  • Module Queries

Mrs Trudi Smith

 

law.taughtprogrammes@durham.ac.uk

Learning and Teaching Administrator
  • Exams
  • Assessment
  • Specific Module Queries
  • Student or teaching queries
  • One of the main points of contact for day to day student and staff queries

Mrs Elizabeth Tarbett

 

law.reception@durham.ac.uk

Reception Helpdesk Assistant 
  • Room bookings (non-teaching commitments)
  • Control law school keys
  • Incoming and outgoing post
  • Staff directory

Mrs Bernie Taylor 

 

law.ltmanager@durham.ac.uk

Learning and Teaching Manager 
  • Teaching Workload
  • Timetable
  • Assessment Management
  • Education policies and practices

Mrs Louise Tindale

 

law.taughtprogrammes@durham.ac.uk

Learning and Teaching Administrator
  • Exams
  • Assessment
  • Specific Module Queries
  • Student or teaching queries
  • One of the main points of contact for day to day student and staff queries

Mr Sean Tindale

 

law.studentsupport@durham.ac.uk 

Student Support Officer
  • Department Disability Representative
  • Academic Engagement 
  • Help students access other support services across the University
  • Shared between Law and Sport

Ms Hayley Wharton

 

law.operations@durham.ac.uk

Operations Administrator  
  • Events
  • Management of the Deans Diary
  • Procurement
  • E&F Planon requests
  • PAT Testing