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Dr Andrew Mitchell

Job: Senior Lecturer

Faculty: Computing, Engineering and Media

School/department: School of Engineering and Sustainable Development

Address: ¸Ô±¾ÊÓƵ, The Gateway, Leicester, LE1 9BH

T: 0116 257 7439

E: andrew.mitchell@dmu.ac.uk

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Personal profile

Dr Andrew Mitchell is an Environmental Social Scientist, with a background in community-based programme management and local authority policy analysis. Since completing his PhD at ¸Ô±¾ÊÓƵ in mid-2017, he has specialised in evaluation research and exploring how project teams make sense of their operational domains and engage in second-order learning. He is currently interested in the longer-term impacts of sustainability initiatives and the contribution of enactive cognitive linguistics to project evaluation.

Research group affiliations

Member of the Institute for Sustainable Futures (formerly Institute of Energy and Sustainable Development (IESD))

Publications and outputs

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Research interests/expertise

There are two foci to my research interests and practice. One concerns project evaluation, particularly developmental evaluation involving second-order or recursive learning processes of the stakeholders involved. The second concerns enactive and embodied sense-making at the human-technological and human-environmental interfaces. These practices and interests come together in recognising that we live in and through complex adaptive systems of language and semiotics, and the discourses and power differentials that inform these systems of meaning.

Through applying various approaches to analysing language and texts as data, I am currently working on papers and studies:

  • exploring stakeholder accounts of air-borne biological and particulate matter;
  • bringing to the fore the values and framing in news media accounts of illegal sewage discharges within a pro-privatisation discourse;
  • examining whether self-reports of connectedness to nature translate into differences in environmentally aware behaviour and the accounts of direct contact with nature;
  • developing work in evaluating climate change communication strategies and impacts; and
  • investigating the conceptual metaphors and cognitive construals in British newspapers and in the House of Commons by elected MPs about the expansion of ultra-low emissions zones (ULEZ) given the UK's climate commitments. 

Past and present PhD research I have supervised has examined topics such as:

  • Social Networking in SME business development in Guinea
  • Water, Sanitation and Hygiene in Ghana
  • Vertical Plant Farming and Sustainability
  • Climate Vulnerability And Humanitarian Aid
  • Governance for Resilience in the Niger Delta

Areas of teaching

Sustainable Business Operations

Research Methods

Applied Systems Thinking

Project Management

Qualifications

BSocSc

BA(Hons.)SS Psychology

MSc Architecture: Advanced Environmental & Energy Studies;

PhD Environmental Social Science

¸Ô±¾ÊÓƵ taught

Course: MSc Engineering Management

Module: Engineering Business Environment and Research Methods (ENGP5101)

Membership of professional associations and societies

  • Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy
  • Graduate Member – British Psychological Society (since 2003)
  • Member of UK Evaluation Society
  • Member of the British Sociological Association
  • Member of the UK’s Social Research Association
  • Member of the International Ecolinguistics Association
  • Member of the International Environmental Communication Association
  • Member of the System Dynamics Society

ORCID number

0000-0002-3946-4094