Timothy Colin Harvey Luckhurst (born 8 January 1963) is a British journalist and academic, currently Principal of South College Durham University and Associate Pro Vice Chancellor Engagement .
Between May 2007 and November 2019 he served as Professor of Journalism at the University of Kent, and the founding head of the university's Centre for Journalism.
At Kent, Luckhurst was a leading member of the team that founded and launched KM Television Ltd , a local television station for Kent and Medway.
He served as a Director of KM Television Ltd between 2016 and 2019
He is a former editor of The Scotsman, and has worked as a journalist for the BBC.
His academic research focuses on the history of journalism and particularly on the depiction of political dissent in British newspapers during the era of appeasement and the Second World War.
He has also written about the work of war correspondents on the Western Front during the First World War