Professor Philip Schofield
Dr Tim Causer
Dr Melissa Terras
Dr Justin Tonra
Dr Valerie Wallace
Mr Richard M. Davis
Mr Martin Moyle
Mr Tony Slade

Professor Philip Schofield

Director, UCL Bentham Project.

Philip Schofield is Professor of the History of Legal and Political Thought, Director of the Bentham Project and General Editor of the Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham. Professor Schofield’s major study of Bentham’s political thought, Utility and Democracy: the Political Thought of Jeremy Bentham, was published by Oxford University Press in 2006. The book draws on an extensive range of unpublished manuscripts and original printed texts, and on the new, authoritative edition of The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham. A further distinctive feature lies in its thorough investigation of the intimate relationship between Bentham’s political thought on the one hand, and his legal and religious thought on the other. The book was awarded the prestigious WJM Mackenzie Book Prize for 2006 by the Political Studies Association. Professor Schofield has also published an introduction to Bentham’s life and thought. His Bentham: A Guide for the Perplexed (Continuum, 2009) highlights Bentham’s relevance to contemporary debates in philosophy, politics, and law. Professor Schofield has edited or co-edited six volumes in the new Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham, and has made major contributions to several more in his role as General Editor. He has also published numerous studies related to his work on Bentham, for instance in the Journal of Legal History, Utilitas, History of Political Thought, and History of European Ideas.

Dr Tim Causer

Research Associate, UCL Bentham Project

Tim Causer completed his doctorate on the infamous Norfolk Island penal settlement (1825-1855) at the Menzies Centre for Australian Studies, King’s College London, in which he was supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. He recently gave a keynote lecture at the Professional Historians Association (New South Wales) international conference at Norfolk Island, which will be published in Winter 2010. He holds both his MLitt and his undergraduate MA from the University of Aberdeen. He joined the Bentham Project at UCL in October 2010 to assist with the Transcribe Bentham Initiative.

Dr Melissa Terras

Senior Lecturer, UCL Digital Humanities.

Melissa Terras is the Senior Lecturer in Electronic Communication in the Department of Information Studies, University College London, and the Deputy Director of the new UCL Centre for Digital Humanities. With a background in Classical Art History and English Literature, and Computing Science, her doctorate (University of Oxford) examined how to use advanced information engineering technologies to interpret and read the Vindolanda texts. Publications include Image to Interpretation: Intelligent Systems to Aid Historians in the Reading of the Vindolanda Texts (2006, Oxford Studies in Ancient Documents. Oxford University Press) and Digital Images for the Information Professional (2008, Ashgate). She is a general editor of Digital Humanities Quarterly and Secretary of the Association of Literary and Linguistic Computing. Her research focuses on the use of computational techniques to enable research in the arts and humanities that would otherwise be impossible.

Dr Justin Tonra

Research Associate, UCL Bentham Project.

Justin Tonra completed his doctorate in English Literature at the National University of Ireland, Galway in 2009, where he also worked on the Thomas Moore Hypermedia Archive project. As part of this project, he was editor of a pilot hypermedia edition of Thomas Moore’s 1817 work, Lalla Rookh, focusing on tracing and visualising the evolution and development of the text of the poem through manuscript drafts to its eventual publication. His research interests are in the areas of manuscript encoding, and examining the genetic processes of writing in literary texts. He holds an MA from University College Dublin and a BA from Trinity College Dublin.

Dr Valerie Wallace

Research Associate, UCL Bentham Project.

Valerie Wallace recently completed her doctorate in History at the University of Glasgow on early nineteenth-century Presbyterian political theory and political radicalism in the Atlantic world. She joined the Bentham Project at UCL to co-ordinate the Bentham Papers Transcription Initiative.

Mr Richard M. Davis

Development Manager, ULCC Digital Archives.

Richard M. Davis manages IT projects and services at ULCC, mainly web applications for digital archives, libraries and education. Recent work includes: developing digital repository services; research into digital preservation issues (datasets, e-learning objects, web sites and blogs); consultancy on disaster recovery; innovative projects funded by JISC, such as Social Networking Extensions for EPrints, and Copyright Licensing plugins for Moodle; Linnean Online (an EPrints-powered archive of Linnaeus’s specimens); NDAD (dataset archive for the National Archives); and institutional repositories for University of London institutes and colleges.

Mr Martin Moyle

Digital Curation Manager, UCL Library Services.

Martin Moyle is Digital Curation Manager, UCL Library Services, with responsibilities for projects and services in the areas of digital repositories, metadata aggregation and digital preservation.  His current interests include text mining for open access repositories (the JISC MERLIN project), metadata aggregation for Europeana (the EuropeanaTravel project) and audio-visual primary research data (the JISC CAVA project).  He manages the UCL Eprints and UCL Library Services Digital Collections services, the DART-Europe discovery service for European electronic theses, and the SHERPA-LEAP repository consortium.

Mr Tony Slade

Acting Manager – UCL Design, Photography and Web Services

Tony Slade specialises in photography and digitisation, acts as an adviser on digital imaging, imagery within social media, image metadata and databases. He currently manages three creative units in the department of UCL Learning and Media Services, part of UCL Information Services Division (ISD). Working closely with colleagues across the UCL Collections to bring the wealth of artefacts, artworks, documents and objects to a wider audience, his recent works include the digitisation of Flaxman drawings and Slade School of Art paintings. Tony is currently updating UCL Imagestore towards being a multi-functional image library for learning and teaching, as well as a source of UCL public relations imagery. Formally an advertising photographer and lecturer, his interests  include copyright law, controlled vocabularies and developing digital learning objects for use in teaching.