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Andrew Dobson
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Andrew Dobson, (born 15 April 1957) is a British political author and Professor at Keele University, specialising in environmental politics. Early life Dobson was educated at Edge Grove School and Aldenham School (both Hertfordshire). He has a First Class BA in Politics from the University of Reading and D.Phil in Politics from St John's College, Oxford. Career Academic career His best-known work is entitled Green Political Thought (4th Edition 2006, Routledge), in which he argues that 'ecologism' is a political ideology in its own right. His most recent environment-related monograph is Citizenship and the Environment (Oxford University Press, 2005), and he co-edited two other books on environmental/ ecological citizenship in 2005. In 2006 he co-edited Political Theory and the Ecological Challenge (Cambridge University Press) with Robyn Eckersley. He was a founding editor of the international journal, . He served until 2012 as an academic member of the DEFRA advisory body, the Sustainable Development Research Network (SDRN), and was an advisor to the Government's Sustainable Development Commission. He was (2011-2013) a Leverhulme Research Fellow, conducting research on the role of listening in democratic theory and practice. The monograph resulting from this period of research leave, Listening for Democracy: recognition, representation, reconciliation, was published by Oxford University Press in 2014. He was Principal Investigator on an ESRC/EPSRC-funded project (2011-2013) called 'Reducing Energy Consumption Through Community Knowledge Networks', the results of which can be found here: RECCKN He is a co-founder of the Green House think tank, and a trustee of the peace-building charity Building Bridges for Peace Political career He ran as a Green Party candidate in the 2005 general election, but was not elected. He also ran in the local elections in 2006, contesting the Keele ward, and came within a handful of votes of unseating the leader of the Liberal Democrats. Dobson was a lead writer of the Green Party's 2010 general election manifesto. Honours Dobson was elected Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences (AcSS) in February 2008. 
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