Top prize for animal rights campaigner
Sheffield animal rights campaigner Dr Dan Lyons has won a top
prize for his academic work against animal experiments.
Dr Lyons, aged 35, of Whitwell Lane, Stocksbridge, has won the
national Political Studies Association's prize for the best
thesis on Government and Public Administration.
The Sheffield University student, and Green Party councillor
on Stocksbridge Town Council, had earlier won the Department
of Politics's prize for the outstanding thesis of 2007. The
thesis used leaked confidential documents to argue that the
British Government is turning a blind eye
to many experiments on animals in the UK.
Dr Lyons, a leading member of Uncaged, the Sheffield-based
animal protection campaign, said: "I like to think of this as
not only a coup for myself, but for the university and the
city as a whole."