Our people
Professor Tamara Walsh
Director of the UQ Pro Bono Centre
t.walsh@uq.edu.au
Tamara Walsh is a Professor of Law at the University of Queensland. She is the Director and Founder of the UQ Pro Bono Centre. Her research focuses on the impact of the law and legal systems on vulnerable and marginalised people including children, people experiencing homelessness, and people who are criminalised.
Bridget Burton
Senior Lecturer - Clinical Educator
b.burton@law.uq.edu.au
Bridget Burton is a Senior Lecturer - Clinical Educator at the University of Queensland. She has 20 years' experience as a lawyer in the legal assistance sector. For eight years, she was Director of the Human Rights and Civil Law Practice at Caxton Legal Centre.
Georgie Maxwell
Administration Officer
probono@law.uq.edu.au
Donna Moodie
Administration Officer
Our Practitioner-in-Residence initiative connects students with practising lawyers from the pro bono and community legal sector. Each semester a different practitioner provides mentoring, guidance and professional insights to students. This rotation gives students access to a diverse range of legal expertise throughout their degree.
Having graduated from the Law School only a few years ago in 2022, it has been a great privilege to return so soon to help mentor the next generation of socially-engaged lawyers. It has been particularly lovely to see that students and old friends who were in their first year of study when I was in my last are now themselves pro bono student leaders about to enter the profession.
- Oscar Kawamata (Practitioner-in-Residence for semester 2, 2025)
The UQ Pro Bono Centre has an Advisory Board which meets twice a year to review the Centre’s pro bono activities and to advise the Centre on its strategic partnership with the legal profession.
The Centre Director and the Advisory Board report to the Dean of the School of Law. The Centre’s Patron is the Honourable Helen Bowskill, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Queensland. The Chair of the Centre’s Advisory Board is Joanne Rennick, Managing Partner, MurphySchmidt Solicitors. Academic members of the Centre include Associate Professor Francesca Bartlett.