Andrew Blowers (academic)

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

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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

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  2. 1 2 "Who we are". Blackwater Against New Nuclear Group. Retrieved 14 February 2019.
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