Tim is a graduate of Cambridge, Northwestern, and Sheffield, and has taught politics at Sheffield, Victoria University of Wellington and Sussex.
He has worked at Queen Mary University of London since 2012.
Tim's research focuses on elections and political parties – their memberships, their links with unions and how parties on both the left and right have coped with the challenge posed by mass migration and the populist radical right.
As well as edited works and journal articles he has published books on the Conservative and Labour parties and is the author of European Politics: a Comparative Introduction.
The Conservative Party After Brexit: Turmoil and Transformation
Polity, 2025
Five Year Mission: The Labour Party under Ed Miliband
Oxford University Press, 2023
