Author: Academy of Social Sciences

The Academy of Social Science’s mission is to promote social sciences in the United Kingdom for the public benefit. The academy is composed of individual academicians and learned societies; it responds to government and other consultations on behalf of the social science community, organizes meetings about social science and seminars on topics that span social science disciplines, and sponsors a number of efforts that promote social science and enhance its value to society.

The riots of summer 2011 – How did we come to this?
International Debate
October 19, 2011

The riots of summer 2011 – How did we come to this?

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Internationalising the Academy
Communication
August 24, 2011

Internationalising the Academy

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Contemporary Social Science
Communication
August 23, 2011

Contemporary Social Science

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President’s Lunch 2011
Announcements
August 22, 2011

President’s Lunch 2011

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Making the Case for the Social Sciences: Sport and Leisure coming in November

Making the Case for the Social Sciences: Sport and Leisure coming in November

The fifth issue, on Sport and Leisure, will be launched as part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science on 1st November at […]

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Alternative White Paper

Alternative White Paper

The Campaign for the Public University is putting together an ‘Alternative White Paper’ on the future of HE funding and is calling […]

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The Campaign to re-brand the social scientist – The public re-construction of a diverse discipline

The Campaign to re-brand the social scientist – The public re-construction of a diverse discipline

Re-posted from the Campaign for the Social Sciences The social sciences are vital in understanding the social world but unlike the natural […]

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Behavioural insights and public policy: MINDSPACE and the ONS wellbeing research agenda

Behavioural insights and public policy: MINDSPACE and the ONS wellbeing research agenda

Behavioural insights and public policy were the themes for a pre-AGM discussion at the Academy of Social Sciences. We invited David Halpern, […]

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Making the Case for the Social Sciences no.4: Crime

Making the Case for the Social Sciences no.4: Crime

The Academy of Social Sciences held the launch of the fourth ‘Making the Case for the Social Sciences’ booklet, this time focussed […]

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Campaign for Social Science reaches £50,000 milestone

Campaign for Social Science reaches £50,000 milestone

The newly-created Campaign for Social Science has just reached its first fundraising milestone of £50,000.  This is a significant step towards the […]

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“UK social science is the best in the world”, says leading academic

“UK social science is the best in the world”, says leading academic

“UK social science is the best in the world,” said Professor Michael Harloe of the Campaign for Social Science. Speaking to a […]

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Campaign for Social Science: Press Officer

Campaign for Social Science: Press Officer

The Academy of Social Sciences is looking to recruit a press officer to work on the recently launched Campaign for Social Science […]

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