Tim is a Senior Research Associate at the Bentham Project in UCL's Faculty of Laws, where, funded by the AHRC, he is working on Bentham's writings on Australia for a forthcoming volume of Bentham's 'Collected Works'. He was previously the co-ordinator of the award-winning crowdsourced transcription initiative, 'Transcribe Bentham', and carried out his PhD research on the Norfolk Island penal station at the Menzies Centre for Australian Studies, King's College London. His most recent publication was an edition of the earliest Australian convict narrative, 'Memorandoms by James Martin', the manuscript of which is in UCL's Bentham Papers.