Ms Catherine Whalley

Catherine has been Registrar at St Peter’s College since September 2017. Having graduated from Cambridge University, where she studied music, Catherine taught in secondary schools for four years and then worked at Imperial College London. She began work at the University of Oxford in 2008, holding a variety of roles encompassing resource allocation, student systems and education policy.

As College Registrar, Catherine is secretary to the college’s Governing Body and leads the team in the college’s Academic Office. Catherine was elected to an Official Fellowship in April 2023.

Catherine is the College's Disability Co-ordinator, which means she liaises with the University's Disability Advisory Service with the aim of ensuring that students with disabilities are appropriately supported. 

You can find out about some parts of Catherine's role from her lockdown blog (written June 2020).