A/ProfBronwyn Olliffe

Bronwyn is the Director of Professional Education. This role includes being the Head of the Practical Legal Training program.From 2007 until 2015 Bronwyn was the Associate Dean (Teaching and Learning). As a law academic, Bronwyn is highly regarded as an exemplary legal educator. She has extensive professional and academic experience in legal education. Bronwyn's emerging research interests are to observe and reflect on the changing role of universities as providers of professional training; the changing expectations and circumstances of students; and the demands of the legal profession upon young graduates. Bronwyn has been responsible for implementing innovative and effective teaching and learning initiatives such as the JD program and the graduate attributes program, and developing with the Dean, Professor Jill McKeough and the inaugural Sir Gerard Brennan Professor, Paul Redmond, the Brennan Justice and Leadership Program which provides UTS law students with opportunities to strengthen their sense of social justice, and to develop the idea of service in professional contexts.

Bronwyn has a strong background in legal education and took a lead role in the development of the ground-breaking UTS Practical Legal Training Program (PLT). This program was a unique innovation in legal education and has contributed significantly to the practical and career ready focus of UTS law graduates. Bronwyn has held a variety of critical administrative positions for both the faculty and the University. Bronwyn was Director of PLT Programs 1999-2001, from 2003 - 2006, Bronwyn was the University Student Ombudsman, in 2006 was the Faculty Academic Liaison Officer, and in 2005 - 2007 the Faculty Director (Students). In recent years, she has taught principally in the subject Ethics Law and Justice.

Bronwyn joined the Faculty in 1996 from the College of Law. Prior to the College, she had been in private practice.