Date: 1st August (10:30 am - 12:30 pm)

Course fee: £10/person

Location: OE Learning Centre (276 Picton Road, Liverpool, L15 4LP)  & Zoom Meeting

Teacher: Miss Harriet McKinley-Smith

Harriet McKinley-Smith is a PhD student in English and French Literature at Jesus College, Oxford University. She holds a scholarship from the AHRC Open-Oxford-Cambridge Doctoral Training Partnership, the Clarendon Fund and Jesus College. In addition to her PhD research, she works closely with the Wordsworth Trust to help them to curate exhibits, organise events and outreach programs with local schools.

Prior to commencing her PhD, she achieved a first-class degree in English Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London. She then completed her master’s degree in Modern Languages (English, French and German) at the University of Oxford where she was awarded the Jesus College Postgraduate Humanities Scholarship and achieved a Distinction. Harriet has worked on the undergraduate admissions team at Oxford and has helped to interview many prospective students.

She is an experienced tutor and university application coach. Her students have achieved places at top schools and universities throughout the UK and abroad including Oxford, Cambridge, UCL and King’s. Harriet’s students have gone on to study Law, Medicine, English, History and PPE among other subjects. She has helped other students to gain places at schools such as Headington School, Manchester Grammar School and Magdalen College School. She is open to inquiries about individual school and university application support.

Miss McKinley-Smith has been tutoring GCSE English and Creative Writing for OE.