Mark King is Churchill’s Lead Admissions Tutor, with overall responsibility for undergraduate admissions to the College. He joined Churchill in 2025 after five years at Lucy Cavendish College, where he was Admissions Director and Assistant Senior Tutor: Academic. Whilst at Lucy he oversaw that college’s recent transformation, its recruitment of a uniquely diverse student community and the improvement in its academic results. He is a passionate advocate for widening participation, but also in maintaining the highest academic standards and ensuring student success.

Mark studied history at Cambridge, where he specialised in the political history of late medieval England.  Having taught undergraduates whilst completing his PhD, Mark moved into secondary education and spent two years teaching history at a large urban comprehensive in Peterborough, before returning to the University in 2017. His principal research focuses primarily upon the inter-relationship between local and national politics in the later Middle Ages, specifically upon the Welsh Borderlands in the reign of Richard II.  However, he has a wide range of academic interests and has published material on everything from Viking raids to the pedagogy of teaching history, the development of the knowledge-rich curriculum and widening participation in Higher Education. At Churchill he is the Director of Studies for final year historians and teaches medieval history to first- and second-year undergraduates.