The Academy of Social Sciences in the United Kingdom earlier this year conferred the award of Academician in the Social Sciences (denoted by the postnominal letters ‘AcSS’) to the following 28 distinguished social scientists:
Peter Alldridge | Drapers’ Professor of Law, Queen Mary, University of London
Jan Baars | Professor of Interpretive Gerontology, University of Humanistic Studies, Utrecht, Netherlands
Suzy Braye | Professor of Social Work, University of Sussex
Stephen Briggs | Professor of Social Work, University of East London
Phillip Brown | Distinguished Research Professor in Social Sciences, Cardiff University
Mick Cooper | Professor of Counselling, University of Strathclyde
Roger Cotterrell | Anniversary Professor of Legal Theory, Queen Mary, University of London
Brigid Featherstone | Professor of Social Care, The Open University
Leslie Francis | Professor of Religions and Education, University of Warwick
Susan Gathercole | Professor in Psychology, University of Cambridge
James Goodwin | Head of Research, Age UK
Owen Hargie | Professor in Social Sciences, University of Ulster
Iain Hay | Matthew Flinders Distinguished Professor of Human Geography, Flinders University, South Australia
John Heritage | Distinguished Professor of Sociology, University of California Los Angeles
Jacqueline Hodgson | Professor of Law, University of Warwick
Alan Irwin | Professor in Organization, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
Robert Lindley | Emeritus Professor in Social Sciences, University of Warwick
Corinne May-Chahal | Professor of Applied Social Science, Lancaster University
Glynis Murphy | Professor of Clinical Psychology & Disability, University of Kent
Rory O’Connor | Professor of Health Psychology, University of Glasgow
John Pinkerton | Professor of Child & Family Social Work, Queen’s University Belfast
Denise Rousseau | HJ Heinz II University Professor of Organizational Behavior & Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh
Professor Peter Shirlow | Professor of Conflict Transformation, Queen’s University Belfast
Bernard Silverman | Chief Scientific Adviser, The Home Office
Carl Stychin | Professor of Law, City University, London
Fran Wasoff | Emeritus Professor of Family Policies, University of Edinburgh
Alison Wearden | Professor of Health Psychology, University of Manchester
Bob Woods | Professor of Clinical Psychology of Older People, Bangor University
The mission of the Academy of Social Sciences is to promote social sciences in the United Kingdom for the public benefit. The academy is composed of more than 900 individual academicians and 46 learned societies, representing nearly 90,000 social scientists. Academicians are distinguished scholars and practitioners from academia and the public and private sectors.
