Tim Middleton

Tim Middleton is a Tutorial Fellow in Theology at Regent’s Park College, University of Oxford, where he also directs the Centre for Baptist Studies. 

His research focusses on the intersections of theology and religion with science, nature, and the environment. Specifically, he is interested in religious approaches to the contemporary ecological crisis, and much of his work is in the field of Christian ecotheology. His recent research draws on trauma theology to explore how the category of trauma might be applied to issues of nonhuman suffering in the context of mass extinction and catastrophic climate change. His first monograph—Witnessing a Wounded World: A Theology of Ecological Trauma—is being published by Fordham University Press in 2025. In addition, he is currently working on a second project about the interaction between religious views of the long-term future and geological understandings of deep time. 

Before joining Regent’s Park College, he taught at St Anne’s College Oxford, the University of Roehampton, and Ripon College Cuddesdon. Most recently, he was a Junior Research Fellow in Religion and the Frontier Challenges at Pembroke College Oxford. He holds doctorates in Theology and Earth Sciences, both from the University of Oxford.