The Fellowship of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS) is an award granted by the
Academy of Social Sciences
The Academy of Social Sciences is a representative body for social sciences in the United Kingdom. The Academy promotes social science through its sponsorship of the Campaign for Social Science, its links with Government on a variety of matters, a ...
to leading academics, policy-makers, and practitioners of the
social sciences
Social science is one of the branches of science, devoted to the study of societies and the relationships among individuals within those societies. The term was formerly used to refer to the field of sociology, the original "science of soci ...
.
Fellows were previously known as Academicians and used the post-nominal letter "AcSS". This was changed in July 2014 to bring the Academy in line with other British learned societies.
Notable fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences
1999
The first fellows (then known as academicians) were elected in 1999. The inaugural fellows include:
*
Archie Brown Archibald or Archie Brown may refer to:
* Archibald Brown (architect) (1881–1956), American architect
* Archibald G. Brown (1844–1922), British minister
* Archie Brown (historian) (born 1938), British political scientist and historian
* Archie ...
*
Ron Johnston
Ronald Johnston (31 December 1930 – 29 July 2014) was a New Zealand speedway rider who rode for the Belle Vue Aces. He also rode in four World Finals (1955, 1957, 1958 and 1960) during his career finishing a best 5th in 1960.
Career
Jo ...
*
Susan J. Smith
Susan Jane Smith (born 1956) is a British geographer and academic. Since 2009, she has been mistress of Girton College, Cambridge. Smith previously held the Ogilvie Chair of Geography at the University of Edinburgh from 1990 to 2004 and until ...
Andrew Gamble
Andrew Michael Gamble (born 15 August 1947) is a British scholar of politics. He was Professor of Politics at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Queens' College from 2007 to 2014. He was a member of the Department of Politics at the Univ ...
David N. Livingstone
David Noel Livingstone (born 15 March 1953) is a Northern Ireland-born geographer, historian, and academic. He is Professor of Geography and Intellectual History at Queen's University Belfast.
Personal background
David Livingstone was born i ...
2003
*
Nirmala Rao
Nirmala Rao (born 1959, Hyderabad, India) is a British academic and the current vice chancellor of Krea University. She also served as vice chancellor of the Asian University for Women, Chittagong, Bangladesh from 1 February 2017 and as Pro-D ...
2004
*
Tariq Modood
Tariq Modood, (born 1952) is a British Pakistani Professor of Sociology, Politics, and Public Policy at the University of Bristol (1997– ). Modood is the founding director of the Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship and one of th ...
Prior to 2007
These people are known to have been selected sometime prior to 2007:
*
Rick Trainor
Rick may refer to:
People
*Rick (given name), a list of people with the given name
*Alan Rick (born 1976), Brazilian politician, journalist, pastor and television personality
*Johannes Rick (1869–1946), Austrian-born Brazilian priest and mycol ...
Theresa Marteau
Dame Theresa Mary Marteau, (born 7 March 1953) is a British health psychologist, professor, and director of the Behaviour and Health Research Unit at the University of Cambridge, Fellow and director of studies for Psychological and Behavioural ...
*
Til Wykes
Professor Order of the British Empire, Dame Til Wykes, Lady Davies (born March 1953) is an English academic, author and editor.
Born as Hilary Margaret Wykes, she is Professor of Clinical Psychology and Rehabilitation and Head of the School of ...
Susan Castillo
Susan Castillo (born August 14, 1951) is a politician in the U.S. state of Oregon who most recently served as Superintendent of Public Instruction from 2003 to 2012. A Democrat, she also served from 1997 to 2003 in the Oregon State Senate. B ...
Thom Brooks
Thomas "Thom" Brooks, (born 14 October 1973) is an American-British political philosopher and legal scholar. He has been professor of Law and Government at Durham University since 2014, the Dean of Durham Law School since 2016. He was previousl ...
*
Douglas Davies
Douglas James Davies, (born 11 February 1947) is a Welsh Anglican theologian, anthropologist, and academic, specialising in the history, theology, and sociology of death. He is Professor in the Study of Religion at the University of Durham. ...
Wendy Larner
Wendy Larner is a New Zealand social scientist who has focussed on the interdisciplinary areas of globalisation, governance and gender. She is currently Provost at Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand. In July 2018 she became the Presid ...
There were 51 people elected to the fellowship in 2013, including:
* Perri 6
*
Ruth Wodak
Ruth Wodak (born 12 July 1950 in London) is an Austrian linguist, who is Emeritus Distinguished Professor and Chair in Discourse Studies in the Department of Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster University and Professor in Linguistics ...
There were 34 people elected to the fellowship in 2014, including:
*
Richard Best, Baron Best
Richard Stuart Best, Baron Best, (born 22 June 1945) is a British social housing leader and member of the House of Lords.
Biography
The son of late Walter Best DL and Frances Chignell, Best was educated at Shrewsbury School and the University o ...
There were 33 people elected to the fellowship in 2015, including:
*
Julian Birkinshaw
Julian Birkinshaw (born 16 October 1964) is a British academic. He is Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at the London Business School, where he is the Academic Director of the Deloitte Institute of Innovation and Entrepreneurship. He i ...
Jane Elliott
Jane Elliott (' Jennison; born on November 30, 1933) is an American diversity educator. As a schoolteacher, she became known for her "Blue eyes/Brown eyes" exercise, which she first conducted with her third-grade class on April 5, 1968, the da ...
*
Becky Francis
Rebecca Jane Francis (born 7 November 1969) is a British educationalist and academic, who specialises in educational inequalities. Since January 2020, she has been Chief Executive of the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF). Before joining the EE ...
James Nazroo
James Nazroo, PhD, MBBS FBA FaCSS, is Professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester. He is the founding and Deputy Director of the ESRC Centre of Dynamics of Ethnicity (CoDE), co-Principal Investigator (PI) of the Synergi Collaborative Cen ...
*
Martin Partington
Thomas Martin Partington, (born 5 March 1944) is a British retired legal scholar and barrister. He is Emeritus professor of Law at the University of Bristol.'PARTINGTON, Prof. (Thomas) Martin', ''Who's Who 2017'', A & C Black, an imprint of Bloom ...
*
Stephen Whittle
Stephen Thomas Whittle, (born 29 May 1955) is a British legal scholar and activist with the transgender activist group Press for Change. Since 2007, he has been Professor of Equalities Law in the School of Law at Manchester Metropolitan Univer ...
2016
There were 84 people elected to the fellowship in 2016, including:
* John Appleby
*
Madeleine Atkins
Dame Madeleine Julia Atkins, (born 2 July 1952) is a British academic administrator, scholar of education, and former teacher. Since 2018, she has served as the 9th President of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge. She was formerly vice-chancellor ...
*
Jo-Anne Baird
Jo-Anne Baird, FAcSS is the Pearson Professor of Educational Assessment at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of St Anne's College. She is also a visiting professor at Queen's University Belfast. She was formerly head of research for the As ...
*
Frances Cairncross
Dame Frances Anne Cairncross, (born 30 August 1944 in Otley, England) is a British economist, journalist and academic. She is a senior fellow at the School of Public Policy, UCLA.
She formerly chaired the executive committee of the Institute f ...
David M. Clark
David Millar Clark, (born 20 August 1954) is a British psychologist.
Career
Clark was born in Darlington and studied experimental psychology at Oxford University. He trained as a clinical psychologist at the Institute of Psychiatry. He then retu ...
*
Greg Clark
Gregory David Clark (born 28 August 1967) is a British politician who served as Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities from 7 July 2022 to 6 September 2022. A member of the Conservative Party, he has served as Member of Pa ...
Mary Daly
Mary Daly (October 16, 1928–January 3, 2010) was an American radical feminist philosopher and theologian. Daly, who described herself as a "radical lesbian feminist", taught at the Jesuit-run Boston College for 33 years. Once a practicing Rom ...
*
Gillian Douglas
Gillian Douglas, is a British legal scholar who specialises in family law. She was dean of The Dickson Poon School of Law at King's College London. She undertook the first empirical study into access to fertility treatment under the Human Fertil ...
*
Peter Fonagy
Peter Fonagy, (born 14 August 1952) is a Hungarian-born British Psychoanalysis, psychoanalyst and Clinical psychology, clinical psychologist. He studied clinical psychology at University College London. He is Professor of Contemporary Psychoana ...
*
Emily Grundy
Emily Marjata Dorothea Grundy, (born 24 July 1955) is a British demographer and academic, specialising in ageing and health inequalities. Since 2013, she has been Professor of Demography at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LS ...
*
Andy Haldane
Andrew G. Haldane, (; born 18 August 1967) is a British economist who worked at the Bank of England between 1989 and 2021 as the chief economist and executive director of monetary analysis and statistics. He resigned from the Bank of England i ...
Richard Layard, Baron Layard
Peter Richard Grenville Layard, Baron Layard FBA (born 15 March 1934) is a British labour economist, currently working as programme director of the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics.
Layard was Senior Research ...
*
Gus O'Donnell, Baron O'Donnell
Augustine Thomas O'Donnell, Baron O'Donnell, (born 1 October 1952) is a former British senior civil servant and economist, who between 2005 and 2011 (under three Prime Ministers) served as the Cabinet Secretary, the highest official in the Br ...
*
Ben Page
Ben Page (born April 9, 1985 in Woodstock, Georgia) is a former American soccer player.
Career
College
Page played college soccer at Lipscomb University, where he earned four consecutive All-Conference Honors in his four-year career, and was t ...
Eileen Scanlon
Eileen Scanlon (born 1951) is a British academic who is Regius Professor of Open Education at the Open University.
Early life and education
Scanlon was born in 1951. She is a graduate of the University of Glasgow and the Open University.
Career ...
*
Mitchell Silver
Mitchell J. Silver (born June 27, 1960) is the former commissioner for the New York City Parks Department. Appointed by Mayor Bill de Blasio, he assumed office May 2014, and led the department until his resignation in July 2021. He was president ...
*
Nicholas Stern, Baron Stern of Brentford
Nicholas Herbert Stern, Baron Stern of Brentford, (born 22 April 1946 in Hammersmith) is a British economist, banker, and academic. He is the IG Patel Professor of Economics and Government and Chair of the Grantham Research Institute on Cli ...
Gary Younge
Gary Andrew Younge , (born January 1969) is a British journalist, author, broadcaster and academic. He was editor-at-large for ''The Guardian'' newspaper, which he joined in 1993. In November 2019, it was announced that Younge had been appointe ...
2017
There were 69 people elected to the fellowship in 2016, including:
* Svenja Adolphs
*
Louise Archer
Louise A. Reeves Archer (October 23, 1893 – April 1, 1948) was an American teacher and activist who fought to educate African Americans during the 1930s and 1940s. During this time, racial barriers limited a black student's access to educat ...
*
Peter Clinch
Peter Clinch is an Irish academic and economist, who has served as Chairperson of Science Foundation Ireland.
Career
Clinch's academic specialisms are sustainable economic growth and environmental economics. In 2002, he co-authored After the C ...
*
Paul Connolly
Paul Connolly (born 29 September 1983) is an English former professional footballer who plays as a right back. He played in the Football League for Plymouth Argyle, Derby County, Sheffield United, Leeds United, Portsmouth, Preston North End, M ...
*
Sarah Franklin
Sarah Franklin (born 1960) is an American anthropologist who has substantially contributed to the fields of feminism, gender studies, cultural studies and the social study of reproductive and genetic technology. She has conducted fieldwork on ...
Alison Phipps Alison Phipps may refer to:
* Alison Phipps (sociologist), British political sociologist, gender studies scholar and feminist theorist
* Alison Phipps (refugee researcher)
Alison Phipps OBE FRSE FRSA FAcSS a University of Glasgow professor of ...
*
Cynthia Weber
Cynthia Weber is a Professor of International relations, International Relations at Sussex University, UK, and co-Director of the media company Pato Productions.
Cynthia Weber was born in New Jersey, USA, and raised in Pennsylvania. She received ...
*
Kaye Wellings
Kaye Wellings is an active Sexual and Reproductive Health educator and has worked within this field of study for over 20 years. She has a strong interest in evaluation research, particularly in relation to preventive intervention and has assessed m ...
Kalwant Bhopal
Kalwant Bhopal is Professor of Education and Social Justice and Director of the Centre for Research in Race & Education at the University of Birmingham. Her work explores the achievements and experiences of minority ethnic groups in education w ...
*
Sarah Birch
Sarah Birch, (born 5 December 1963) is an American political scientist and academic, specialising in comparative politics. Since 2016, she has been Professor (highest academic rank), Professor of Political Science at King's College London. She h ...
*
Katrina Brown
Katrina Brown is a Professor of Social Sciences, at the University of Exeter. From 1991–2012, she was a Professor of Development Studies at the University of East Anglia.
Education
Brown has a BSc from University of Newcastle upon Tyne, an ...
*
Rosie Campbell
Rosie Campbell (born September 1976) is professor of politics at King's College, University of London. Previously she was a professor at UCL and Birkbeck College
Birkbeck, University of London (formally Birkbeck College, University of London ...
*
Garry Crawford
Garry Crawford is a British sociologist.
His interests in fans, audiences, and consumption have led Garry Crawford to publish on a wide range of subjects including cultural studies, cosplay, gender, leisure, classical music, and, most notabl ...
*
Sir Terry Farrell
Sir Terence Farrell (born 12 May 1938), known as Terry Farrell, is a British architect and urban designer. In 1980, after working for 15 years in partnership with Sir Nicholas Grimshaw, Farrell founded his own firm, Farrells. He garner ...
Neil Adger
William Neil Adger (born 1964) is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Exeter.
He was educated at the University of Edinburgh (MA Economics), Wye College, University of London (MSc Agricultural Economics) and the University of East ...
*
Linda Bauld
Linda Caroline Bauld (born 2 June 1970) is the Bruce and John Usher Chair of Public Health in The Usher Institute at the University of Edinburgh and Chief Social Policy Advisor to the Scottish government.
Early life and education
Bauld was bo ...
Jane Duckett
Jane Duckett, (born 1964) is a British political scientist and academic, who specialises in Chinese politics and social policy. Since 2012, she has been the Edward Caird Chair of Politics at the University of Glasgow. Previously, she was a lect ...
*
Alison Fuller
Alison Fuller is a British educational researcher and Professor of Vocational Education and Work at the Institute of Education of the University College London and, where she also serves as Pro-Director for Research and Development. She is a le ...
Stephen McKay
Stephen Douglas McKay (born 3 May 1968) is a British academic and since 2013 the first Distinguished Professor of Social Research at the University of Lincoln.Richard Moorhead
* Inderjeet Parmar
*
Carol Propper
Dame Carol Propper is Professor of Economics at Imperial College Business School, Professor of Economics of Public Policy at Bristol University, and Professor of Health Economics at Monash University. She is also a senior research associate wit ...
Gillian Rose
Gillian Rosemary Rose (née Stone; 20 September 1947 – 9 December 1995) was a British philosopher and writer. Rose held the chair of social and political thought at the University of Warwick until 1995. Rose began her teaching career at th ...
*
Rorden Wilkinson
Rorden Wilkinson FAcSS FRSA (born 13 February 1970) is a British academic and author. He is Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) and Professor of International Political Economy at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. He was previously Pro Vice- ...