Senior Lecturer
School of Creative Arts & Industries
Tim is a Senior Lecturer in Film Production within the School of Creative Arts and Industries with research interests in amateur cinema studies.
Tim teaches a range of practical hands-on modules focused on film production, live studio television production and cinematography. He is an award-winning documentary filmmaker with research interests in amateur cinema.
Tim started teaching Film Production at both Kent University and Canterbury Christ Church University in 1996 before becoming a full-time lecturer at Christ Church in 2000. He was the Programme Director for the MA in Film Production for seven years starting in 2002. He has taught across a range of practical areas including animation, live studio television, cinematography and film production. Tim’s teaching has been recognised by a number of awards and nominations. Most recently he has been nominated for the Christ Church Recognition Award 2023 for Outstanding Contribution to Student Experience and Well Being. He was nominated for a Golden Apple Teaching Award in 2011, 2013, 2015, 2016 and 2018.
Tim’s research area is focused upon amateur filmmaking in the Canterbury area between the 1920s and 1960s. He has carried out a major research project to collect, digitise, archive and evaluate historical amateur film made in the Canterbury region. He discovered a large number of films, several of which are of national or international significance. These include scenes of T.S. Eliot at the first performance of Murder in the Cathedral and unique film of Count Zborowski, the inspiration behind Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. This research has also led to the discovery of early amateur films that provide a unique record of Canterbury before the Second World War and show the early development of amateur filmmaking. Tim has given a number of screenings locally and has formed close links with the Cathedral Archives and the Canterbury Museums. His current research is focused upon how archive amateur film can be used to explore veteran behaviour at battlefield pilgrimages. Tim is an active award-winning documentary filmmaker.
Founder member of the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies - Amateur Cinema Special Interest Group in 2017
Keynote Speaker at the Institute of Amateur Cinematographers AGM 2017
Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Amateur Cinematographers
Guest Speaker at the Dorothy L Sayers Society 2013Curator of the ‘Small Films’ retrospective at Canterbury Anifest 2007.
Founder member of ‘Canterbury Anifest’ in 2006
Founder member of the Kent International Film Festival 1997