Academy Fellow

Tim is currently Provost and Senior Vice-President at the University of Surrey, a position he has held since 2022.

As Provost, he is responsible for delivering the University’s academic mission. He became Interim President and Vice-Chancellor of the University in May 2025 and resumed his substantive role as Provost in September 2025.

Tim brings to the role of Provost more than 30 years’ experience as an educator. Prior to his move to Surrey, he had a number of leadership roles at The University of Queensland (UQ), including Director of the Asia-Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, Executive Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, and Deputy Provost. Before then, Tim previously held discipline and Faculty-level leadership roles at the University of Exeter and Aberystwyth University. His graduate training was at the University of Oxford where he won a national prize for his PhD.

He has been active as a researcher in the fields of International Relations and has published seventeen books with leading publishers. Highly cited in his field with over 10,000 citations (according to Google Scholar).

Appointed Emeritus Professor at The University of Queensland in 2022

Elected Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (UK) in 2025. Featured https://acss.org.uk/professor-tim-dunne/

Richard Devetak and Tim Dunne eds., The Rise of the International (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024).

Tim Dunne, Milja Kurki, Katarina Kusic, Steve Smith eds., International Relations Theories: Discipline and Diversity (Oxford: OUP, 6th edition, 2024). 

Herbert Butterfield and Martin Wight eds., Diplomatic Investigations, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019, new edition edited by Tim Dunne and Ian Hall. 

Tim Dunne and Christian Reus-Smit, eds., The Globalization of International Society, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017.

Alex Bellamy and Tim Dunne eds., The Oxford Handbook of the Responsibility to Protect, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016, pp. 1129

Tim Dunne, Lene Hanson, Colin Wight, ‘The End if IR theory?’ European Journal of International Relations 19.3 (2013), pp. 405-425

Ken Booth and Tim Dunne, Terror in our Time (Routledge: London and New York, 2012), pp. 230.