Tim, is a founder member, Director and Chair of Substance.

He has a specialist interest in young people, sport and popular culture and a long track record of conducting both ‘pure’ academic and applied research around these issues as well as tailored monitoring and evaluation exercises for specific policy initiatives. His research and writing has focused particularly around young peoples personal development, ‘race’ and community cohesion, crime, ‘deviance’ and substance misuse and he currently leads the national evaluation of the Home Office funded Positive Futures programme and lead's Substance's research for sported. With a succession of publications to his name, Tim is widely regarded as one of the leading authorities in relation to the research, development and analysis of sport and activity based social policy initiatives.

Born and bred in south London he fondly remembers his days as a binman with the London Borough of Bromley!