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, ...

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 socie ...

. 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 A learned society (; also learned academy, scholarly society, or academic association) is an organization that exists to promote an academic discipline, profession, or a group of related disciplines such as the arts and science. Membership may ...

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 *

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* Susan J. Smith * John Urry

2000

* Andrew Gamble

2002

* Ronald Carter * David N. Livingstone

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

Prior to 2007

These people are known to have been selected sometime prior to 2007: * Rick Trainor *

Lawrence Freedman Sir Lawrence David Freedman, (born 7 December 1948) is a British academic, historian and author with specialising in foreign policy, international relations and strategy. He has been described as the "dean of British strategic studies" and wa ...

* Paul Matthews *

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 *

Ken Young Kenneth George Young FAcSS FRHistS (3 January 1943 – 20 February 2019) was a British political scientist and historian who was Professor of Public Policy at King's College London in its Department of War Studies. Earlier he was instrumental in ...

2007

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 ...

2008

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2009

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 previou ...

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. ...

* Anthony Forster

2011

* Wendy Larner

2012

* Greg Bamber

2013

There were 51 people elected to the fellowship in 2013, including: *

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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 ...

2014

There were 34 people elected to the fellowship in 2014, including: * Richard Best, Baron Best * Peter Buckley * Iain Hay * Jennifer Jenkins *

David Willetts David Linsay Willetts, Baron Willetts, (born 9 March 1956) is a British politician and life peer. From 1992 to 2015, he was the Member of Parliament (MP) representing the constituency of Havant in Hampshire. He served as Minister of State for ...

* Simon Williams

2015

There were 33 people elected to the fellowship in 2015, including: * Julian Birkinshaw *

Craig Calhoun Craig Jackson Calhoun (born 1952) is an American sociologist, currently University Professor of Social Sciences at Arizona State University. An advocate of using social science to address issues of public concern, he was the Director of the L ...

* Jane Elliott *

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 E ...

* Bob Kerslake, Baron Kerslake * James Nazroo * Martin Partington * Stephen Whittle

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 *

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 ...

Nancy Cartwright Nancy Cartwright (born October 25, 1957) is an American actress. She is the long-time voice of Bart Simpson on the animated television series ''The Simpsons'', for which she has received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Voice-Over Perform ...

* David M. Clark *

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 P ...

Diane Coyle Diane Coyle (born February 1961) is an economist and a former advisor to the UK Treasury. She was vice-chairman of the BBC Trust, the governing body of the British Broadcasting Corporation, and was a member of the UK Competition Commission fro ...

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 Ro ...

* Gillian Douglas *

Peter Fonagy Peter Fonagy, (born 14 August 1952) is a Hungarian-born British psychoanalyst and clinical psychologist. He studied clinical psychology at University College London. He is Professor of Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Developmental Science and ...

* Emily Grundy * Andy Haldane * David Halpern * Charles Hulme * John Kay * Richard Layard, Baron Layard * Gus O'Donnell, Baron O'Donnell * Ben Page *

Bridget Rosewell Bridget Clare Rosewell, (born 18 September 1951) is a British economist. Her expertise includes economic development, transport and agglomeration economics, development evaluation, infrastructure, forecasting, industry dynamics and competiti ...

* Eileen Scanlon * Mitchell Silver *

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 ...

* Matthew Taylor *

Anthony Teasdale Anthony Teasdale, FAcSS, is the former (now retired) Director General of the Directorate-General for Parliamentary Research Services (DG EPRS) in the permanent administration of the European Parliament - or the European Parliamentary Research Serv ...

Claire Tyler, Baroness Tyler of Enfield Claire Tyler, Baroness Tyler of Enfield, (born 4 June 1957) is a Liberal Democrat life peer in the House of Lords. Education and early career After graduating with a BSc in Law and Politics from the University of Southampton, Claire Tyler ...

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 * Peter Clinch * Paul Connolly * Sarah Franklin * Rachel Griffith * Susanne Küchler * Alison Phipps * Cynthia Weber * Kaye Wellings * Wei Yang

2018

* Vivienne Marie Baumfield * Katrina Brown * Claudio Radelli

2019

There were 73 people elected to the fellowship in 2019, including:Press Release: Seventy-three leading social scientists conferred as Fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences
Academy of Social Sciences, 19 March 2019 *

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 Eas ...

* Linda Bauld * Michael Burton * Jane Duckett * Alison Fuller *

Tim Leunig Timothy Charles Leunig (born 26 February 1971) is an economist at the London School of Economics's Department of Economic History. He is currently on two years' leave to work as a Ministerial Policy Adviser at the Department for Education. Ear ...

* Robin Mansell * Stephen McKay * Richard Moorhead * Inderjeet Parmar * Carol Propper * Sarah Radcliffe * Gillian Rose *

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 Vic ...

* Daniel Wincott

References

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