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Professor Andrew Bradstock
ABradstock (talk) 16:44, 7 September 2018 (UTC)

Andrew Bradstock is a writer and academic specializing in the relationship between religious faith and political and social action. He has held academic posts in the UK and New Zealand and worked for religious organizations and research centres committed to social and political engagement.

A graduate of the Universities of Bristol, Kent and Otago, Andrew taught at LSU College Southampton and King Alfred’s College Winchester (now the University of Winchester) in the 1990s before becoming National Secretary for Church and Society with the United Reformed Church.

In 2009 he was appointed inaugural Howard Paterson Professor of Theology and Public Issues at the University of Otago where he established and directed New Zealand’s first Centre for Theology and Public Issues. He has also been co-director of the Centre for Faith and Society at the Von Hügel Institute, Cambridge, and is Convenor of the University of Winchester's Centre for Theology and Religion in Public Life (TRiPL).

Andrew is currently researching and writing the official biography of Bishop David Sheppard, Lord Sheppard of Liverpool (1929-2005). This is due to be published by SPCK in June 2019. His other major publications include 'Radical Religion in Cromwell’s England: A Concise History from the English Civil War to the End of the Commonwealth' (I B Tauris, 2011); 'Louder than words: action for the 21st-century church' (DLT, 2007); and (edited with Christopher Rowland) 'Radical Christian Writings: A Reader' (Blackwell, 202).

In 2013 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Association (FRHistS).