Academy of Social Sciences

SAGE’s Ziyad Marar Named Academy of Social Sciences Fellow
Announcements
October 16, 2020

SAGE’s Ziyad Marar Named Academy of Social Sciences Fellow

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Social Science, STEM and Career Skills: Not ‘Either/Or’ But ‘Both/And’
Career
September 17, 2020

Social Science, STEM and Career Skills: Not ‘Either/Or’ But ‘Both/And’

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Duffy to Head UK Campaign as Wilsdon Leads Research on Research Institute
Announcements
October 2, 2019

Duffy to Head UK Campaign as Wilsdon Leads Research on Research Institute

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Geographer Gardner to Head Academy of Social Sciences
Announcements
September 28, 2018

Geographer Gardner to Head Academy of Social Sciences

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Louise Richardson: Educational Divide Fuels Corrosive Populism

Louise Richardson: Educational Divide Fuels Corrosive Populism

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

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Academy of Social Sciences Names 69 New Fellows

Academy of Social Sciences Names 69 New Fellows

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

Academy of Social Sciences Confers Fellowships on 47

Britain’s Academy of Social Sciences announced today it has conferred the award of fellow on 47 leading social scientists, ranging from the […]

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Academy of Social Sciences Names 84 New Fellows

Academy of Social Sciences Names 84 New Fellows

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

Spotlighting Social Science’s Role in Dementia Fight

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

Sharon Witherspoon Joins AcSS as Policy Chief

Sharon Witherspoon, the former director of the Nuffield Foundation and a guiding light of the Q-Step initiative, has been named the acting […]

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Nurse Review Offers a Federal Future for UK Research

Nurse Review Offers a Federal Future for UK Research

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..

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The Self is Not Just I

The Self is Not Just I

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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