Andrew Blowers (academic)

Andrew Blowers OBE FRSA is a British geographer and environmentalist and Emeritus Professor of the Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences at the Open University.[1]

Biography

Blowers attended Colchester Royal Grammar School and won an Open Exhibition to read Geography at Durham University.[2] After periods teaching at Newcastle Polytechnic and Kingston Polytechnic he joined the Open University, where he eventually became Dean of Social Sciences.[3]

His academic work has focused on environmental protection, particularly nuclear waste management. In 1993 he campaigned against the opening of the Thermal Oxide Reprocessing Plant at Sellafield.[4]

Honours

He received an OBE for services to environmental protection in the 2000 Birthday Honours.[5] He became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 2004.[2]

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References
  1. "Professor Andrew Blowers". Open University. Retrieved 14 February 2019.
  2. "Who we are". Blackwater Against New Nuclear Group. Retrieved 14 February 2019.
  3. "Members – NWAA". Nuclear Waste Advisory Associates. Retrieved 14 February 2019.
  4. "Fuel for the fiery waste debate: Britain will be a dump for radioactive material". The Independent. 10 May 1993. Retrieved 14 February 2019.
  5. "Birthday Honours OBEs: A - K". BBC News. Retrieved 14 February 2019.


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