Professor Andrew Moran is the Associate Dean in the School of Social Sciences and Professions.
Andrew Moran
Andrew has a PhD in American Political History (London Guildhall University), a BA (Hons) in American Studies and Politics (Keele University), and has taught at London Metropolitan University for over thirty years.
He is the Associate Dean of Social Sciences, providing strategic leadership focused on teaching quality, research, staff development, finance and strategic planning. He leads nine subject areas: Politics and International Relations, Sociology, Criminology, Woman and Child Abuse, Early Childhood Studies, Youth Studies, Initial Teacher Training, Education, and the Foundation Year.
He is a Senior Fellow of the HEA and a University Teaching Fellow. He has led on queering and decolonising the curriculum, and on research focused on LGBTQ+ representation, disabilities and neurodiversity in university spaces.
His teaching concentrates on International Relations, Security Studies, and the foreign policy, history and politics of the USA.
Andrew has contributed to scholarly journals, such as 'Presidential Studies Quarterly', 'White House Studies', 'Diplomacy and Statecraft', 'Political Studies', 'Party Politics', and 'Democratization' and has appeared on BBC News 24, Sky News, CNN, the History Channel, and Bloomberg TV, as well as contributing to a variety of newspapers around the world and being a regular guest on LBC News.
- the foreign policy of the USA
- presidential politics in the USA
- the political economy of the USA
- the death penalty in the USA
- security studies (including cyberspace, intelligence agencies, and terrorism)
- the changing nature of power in the 21st Century
Moran, A. (2028) ‘Weapons of Mass Destruction’ and ‘Economic Statecraft’, in Hough, P. et al. (eds.) 'Global Security', London: Edward Elgar Publishing.
Moran, A. (2027) ‘Queering the Curriculum: An Ally’s Approach to Politics and International Relations’, in Cordoba, et al. (eds.) 'Queering the Curriculum in HE: Multidisciplinary Perspectives and Best Practices for Transformative Queer Pedagogy', Bingley: Emerald Publishing.
Hough, P., Moran, A. and Pilbeam, B. (2026) 'International Security Studies: Theory and Practice', 3rd ed., London: Routledge.
Moran, A. (2022) ‘What decolonising the curriculum means: Reflections by students of Politics and International Relations at London Metropolitan University’, in 'Investigations'.
Hough, P., Moran, A., Pilbeam, B. and Stokes, W. (2020) 'International Security Studies: Theory and Practice', 2nd ed., London: Routledge.
Moran, A. (2017) ‘Barack Obama and the Return of “Declinism”: Rebalancing American Foreign Policy in an Era of Multipolarity’, in Ashbee, E. and Dumbrell, J. (eds.) 'The Obama Presidency and the Politics of Change', London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Moran, A. (2017) ‘Obama wasn’t weak on foreign policy’, in 'The Independent', January.
Moran, A. and McGlinchey, S. (2016) ‘Beyond the “Blank Check”: Arming the Shah of Iran during the Ford Administration’, in 'Diplomacy & Statecraft'.
Moran, A. et al. (2016) 'Help Your Kids with Study Skills', London: Dorling Kindersley.
Hough, P., Malik, S., Moran, A. and Pilbeam, B. (2015) 'International Security Studies: Theory and Practice', London: Routledge.
Moran, A. (2015) ‘A New Millennium: 2000–2014’, in 'The Smithsonian Children’s Encyclopedia of American History', 2nd ed., New York: Dorling Kindersley.
Moran, A. (2013) ‘Reassessing the “Accidental President”: Why Gerald Ford Mattered’, in 'White House Studies', Autumn.
Moran, A. (2012) ‘Contemporary American Foreign Policy’, in Davis, P. and McKeever, R. (eds.) Politics USA, 3rd ed., Harlow: Pearson.
Moran, A. (2011) ‘More than a Caretaker: The Economic Policy of Gerald Ford’, in 'Presidential Studies Quarterly'.
Moran, A. (2010) ‘Evolving Standards of Decency? The Death Penalty in the USA in 2008’, in 'Amicus', Issue 21.
Selected Conference Papers:
‘WTH? Decoding LGBTQIA+: OMG! Learn the ABCs So You Don’t Go MIA at the EDI/DEI BBQ, FFS’ presented at the Annual Teaching and Learning Conference, London Metropolitan University, June 2025
‘Knowledge in an Age of Convenience’, research presentation delivered at London Metropolitan University, September 2024
‘Where are all the dead bodies?’: Freedom of Speech in the Post-Truth Era’, presented at the Annual Teaching and Learning Conference, London Metropolitan University, June 2024.
'The ABCs of the LGBTQ+s: Raising awareness of LGBTQ+ issues and the need for an inclusive curriculum', at The Equality Diversity and Inclusion Conference 2022: Inclusive Institutions in Action, hosted by Advance HE.
‘Ensuring an LGBTQ+ Inclusive Curricula’ presented at the Annual Teaching and Learning Conference, London Metropolitan University, June 2021.
‘A Critical Conversation - Is What We Teach Still Relevant?: A Report by the Social Sciences Student BAME Research Group’ to London Metropolitan University, June 2021.
‘Decolonising the Curriculum’ presented at the Annual Learning and Teaching Conference, London Metropolitan University, June 2020.
‘“About Bloody Time”’: Discussing menstruation with Politics and International Relations students’, presented at the Annual Learning and Teaching Conference, London Metropolitan University, June 2019.
‘Donald Trump and the End of the American Century’, presented at the Annual Conference of the American Politics Group of the Political Studies Association, St. Anne’s College, the University of Oxford, January 2018.
Andrew is a member of the Learning and Teaching Group of the British International Studies Association, which was founded in 2010 to promote scholarship and innovation in learning and teaching in international relations, and the American Politics Group of the Political Studies Association. He is also a regular contributor to London Metropolitan University's Annual Teaching and Learning Conference.
Andrew has been a guest lecturer for the Political Studies Association, British Association of American Studies and the Institute of Continuing Education at the University of Cambridge. He regularly contributes to the ‘Congress to Campus’ programme organised by the Rothermere American Institute and the Eccles Centre at the British Library.
He has served on degree validation panels at the University of Northamptonshire, Middlesex University, Coventry University, and the American College in Thessaloniki, and has been an external examiner at the University of the West of England, Northumbria University, and Ruskin College, Oxford.
Andrew has appeared on BBC News 24, Sky News, CNN, the Voice of Russia, Bloomberg TV, and Faculti, as well as contributing to a variety of newspapers (e.g. On a No-Deal Brexit, on US-China relations and on the likelihood of a US-UK trade deal).