Education
She gained a Doctor of Philosophy in Classical Philosophy (Cambridge).
She gained a Doctor of Philosophy in Classical Philosophy (Cambridge).
After A-levels taken at The College of Richard Collyer Hobbs read Classics at New Hall, Cambridge (now Murray Edwards College, Cambridge). After a Research Fellowship at Christ"s College, Cambridge, Hobbs became Senior Fellow in the Public Understanding of Philosophy and Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Warwick. She is a specialist in Ancient Greek philosophy with a particular interest in ethics, political theory, and moral psychology.
In April 2012, the University of Sheffield announced Hobbs"s appointment as Professor of the Public Understanding of Philosophy, the first such chair in the United Kingdom. Professor Hobbs is now preparing a translation of Plato"s Symposium, with a commentary, for Oxford University Press.
She contributes to television and radio programmes. These contributions include British Broadcasting Corporation Two"s Timewatch special "Atlantis: The Evidence", the National Geographic Channel"s "Finding Atlantis", the Radio 4 programme In Our Time hosted by Melvyn Bragg, Radio 3 Night Waves and the British Broadcasting Corporation World Services The Forum.
On February 1, 2015 Hobbs was the castaway on Desert Island Discs on British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 4.