After taking a BA(MA) in Zoology at Oxford University (under Richard Dawkins) and a PhD in Bioengineering at Reading University, Andrew Jackson pursued a 30-year career in biotech R&D, working for a major blue-chip company and two of the Cambridge-based technology consultancies. He then joined the Faraday Institute as their Director for External Affairs before taking early retirement to fulfil a lifelong ambition to study academic theology. He sat the University of Cambridge postgraduate Diploma and MPhil degree in Theology (both awarded with distinction and the Divinity Faculty prize) followed by a PhD at the University of Nottingham under Dr Michael Burdett. A monograph from this PhD has been published with Routledge, entitled ‘Maximus the Confessor and Evolutionary Biology: The Phylogenetic Logoi.’ Andrew is Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Nottingham and has returned to the Faraday Institute as Academic Lead for its Enrichment Year Tutorial Programme in Science and Religion. His theological research interests include the theology of evolutionary biology, Eastern Patristics, and the theology of technology.
