Tim is a Lecturer at Monash University, where he coordinates and teaches in the Diploma of Tertiary Studies (DOTS) undergraduate pathway course and core first year teaching and learning units. Tim has experience in teacher education having taught in the areas of sociology of education, and school and community partnerships. His doctoral research involved a critical ethnographic study of disengaged young people participating in an alternative education program for early school leavers in a small rural town in Western Victoria. Tim currently researches in the areas of pathways to higher education for underrepresented groups and non-ATAR students, and rural placements.