Society information

The Academy of Social Sciences

https://www.acss.org.uk/us/

The Academy of Social Sciences is the National Academy of Academics, Learned Societies and Practitioners in the Social Sciences. Its mission is to promote social sciences in the United Kingdom for the public benefit.

The Academy’s Vision Statement is available here .

The Academy is composed of over 1,400 individual Fellows and 45 Learned Societies and a number of affiliates, together representing nearly 90,000 social scientists. Fellows are distinguished scholars and practitioners from academia and the public and private sectors. Most of the Learned Societies in the social sciences in the United Kingdom are represented within the Academy. The Campaign for Social Sciences is the outward facing, advocacy voice of the Academy of Social Sciences.

Activities

The Academy responds to Government and other consultations on behalf of the social science community, organises meetings about social science and seminars on topics that span social science disciplines, and sponsors a number of schemes that promote social science and enhance its value to society.

The Academy also sponsors the Campaign for Social Science.

Member Learned Societies

Association of Law Teachers (ALT)

Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and Commonwealth (ASA)

Association for Psychosocial Studies (APS)

Association for Tourism in Higher Education (ATHE)

British Accounting and Finance Association (BAFA)

British Association for Applied Linguistics (BAAL)

British Academy of Management (BAM)

British Association for American Studies (BAAS)

British Association for International and Comparative Education (BAICE)

British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies (BASEES)