Tim Causer is a Senior Research Associate at the Bentham Project in UCL's Faculty of Laws. He is a historian of convict transportation, and his research has focused upon the infamous penal station at Norfolk Island (1825-55). He was formerly the co-ordinator of the award-winning Transcribe Bentham initiative, and-in a project funded by the AHRC-is currently investigating and editing Bentham's writings on transportation, Australia, and colonialism. He is also the editor of the Journal of Bentham Studies.
