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Geographer Gardner to Head Academy of Social Sciences

By Social Science Space | Published: September 28, 2018

The longtime director of the Royal Geographical Society, Rita Gardner CBE, will be the new chief executive of the United Kingdom’s Academy of Social Sciences. She fills the vacancy created by the retirement of Stephen Anderson after more than 10 years.

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Louise Richardson: Educational Divide Fuels Corrosive Populism

By Campaign for Social Science | Published: November 28, 2017

Speaking before a sell-out audience of policymakers, journalists and academics in Whitehall, Louise Richardson FAcSS, vice chancellor of the University of Oxford, said we must bridge the educational divide to prevent populism for threatening democracy

Posted in Impact, Public Engagement, Public Policy | Also tagged Campaign for Social Science, expertise, Inequality, Lecture, Louise Richardson, Populism | Leave a comment

Academy of Social Sciences Names 69 New Fellows

By Academy of Social Sciences | Published: October 13, 2017

Sixty-nine academics, practitioners and policymakers from across the social sciences are now fellows of Britain’s Academy of Social Sciences the venerable society announced Thursday. Fellows are chosen after an extensive peer review process for the excellence and impact of their work using social science for public benefit.

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Academy of Social Sciences Confers Fellowships on 47

By Academy of Social Sciences | Published: March 31, 2017

Britain’s Academy of Social Sciences announced today it has conferred the award of fellow on 47 leading social scientists, ranging from the chief statistician for the UK to the chief economic adviser to the Scottish government to a leading thinker on the role of cities in the future. The list includes social scientists on the […]

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Academy of Social Sciences Names 84 New Fellows

By Academy of Social Sciences | Published: October 18, 2016

The Academy of Social Sciences has conferred the award of fellow on 83 leading social scientists, including such luminaries as Lord Stern, Nudge Unit founder David Halpern and Madeleine Atkins of HEFCE.

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Spotlighting Social Science’s Role in Dementia Fight

By Academy of Social Sciences | Published: March 28, 2016

A new booklet in a series of releases by Britain's Academy of Social Sciences highlights the important role that social and behavioral scientists have in the global fight against dementia.

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Sharon Witherspoon Joins AcSS as Policy Chief

By Campaign for Social Science | Published: March 28, 2016

Sharon Witherspoon, the former director of the Nuffield Foundation and a guiding light of the Q-Step initiative, has been named the acting head of policy across both the Academy of Social Sciences and the Campaign for Social Science, the linked organizations announced on March 23. She replaces David Walker in the role. Witherspoon, MBE FAcSS, […]

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Nurse Review Offers a Federal Future for UK Research

By Social Science Space | Published: November 19, 2015

A new report sought by Britain's government argues that quality research from the UK's seven research councils should itself be “at the heart of government” -- and to achieve that those councils should be run by a single organization that has much stronger input from government than at present..

Posted in Academic Funding | Also tagged ESRC, Haldane Principle, Nurse Review, Paul Nurse, RCUK | Leave a comment

The Self is Not Just I

By David Canter | Published: April 15, 2015

David Canter examines the latest themed issue of the journal of the Academy of Social Sciences, which approaches how we determine what our 'self' is. These abstract arguments have important implications in areas such as national security and even finance, he finds.

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Academy of Social Sciences Names 2014 Fellows

By Academy of Social Sciences | Published: October 14, 2014

Lord Richard Best, the longtime chief executive of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation; David Willets, a Conservative Party MP and until July the minister of state for universities and science; and Loraine R R Gelsthorpe, the current president of the British Society for Criminology, are among 34 leading social science scholars and practitioners named as 2014 fellows to the Academy of Social Sciences today in London.

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Academy of Social Sciences Names 28 New Academicians

By Social Science Space | Published: May 14, 2014

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 […]

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King and Crewe’s Book of ‘Blunders’ a Paddy Prize Winner

By Social Science Space | Published: March 20, 2014

'The Blunders of Our Governments,' co-authored by the president of the Academy of Social Sciences, Ivor Crewe, and fellow political scientist Anthony King, has been named the Practical Politics Book of the Year in Britain’s annual Paddy Power Political Book Awards.

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