Tim joined UCL in October 2010 and he is currently a Principal Research Fellow at the Bentham Project, UCL Faculty of Laws. His current projects include, with Professor Schofield and Dr Chris Riley, the preparation of volume 14 of Bentham’s Correspondence, and he is Co-Investigator on the AHRC-funded project '"A Picture of the Treasury": The Panopticon Penitentiary, Bureaucracy, and Autobiography in the Writings of Jeremy Bentham', which will produce an edition of Bentham's massive, hitherto unpublished account of the failure of his panopticon penitentiary scheme.  He was, until December 2015, co-ordinator of the award-winning crowdsourced transcription initiative, Transcribe Bentham, and from 2013-15 also worked on the European Commission-funded tranScriptorium programme, which developed solutions for the searching, indexing, and full transcription by machines of historic handwritten manuscripts.

He is co-editor, with Professor Philip Schofield and Dr Chris Riley, of The Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham, Volume 13: July 1828 to June 1832 (2024), and with Professor Schofield, of Panopticon versus New South Wales and Other Writings on Australia (2022) for The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham. He is also co-editor, with Professor Margot Finn and Professor Schofield, of Jeremy Bentham and Australia: Convicts, Utility, and Empire (2022), a collection of essays exploring Bentham’s writings on Australia, and the author of Memorandoms by James Martin (2017), an edition of the earliest Australian convict narrative. Memorandoms is the only first-hand account of perhaps the most famous escape from Australia by transported convicts, that led by Mary and William Bryant in March 1791.

Tim is a graduate of the University of Aberdeen (MA 2004, MLitt 2006), and carried out his doctoral research at the Menzies Centre for Australian Studies, King’s College London, in which he focused upon the notorious Norfolk Island penal station, which operated from 1825 to 1855.