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33 leading social scientists conferred as Fellows of the Academy of Social
Sciences
The Academy of Social Sciences has announced today [Friday 13th March 2015] that it has
conferred the award of Fellow on 33 leading social scientists.
The recipients have a wide range of expertise in the social sciences, including management,
sociology, psychology, politics, geography and law. These Fellows have made a substantial
contribution to wider social science in a variety of contexts, including in higher education,
government and learned societies.
Among the 33 are:
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Professor Craig Calhoun, Director, London School of Economics and Political
Science. Professor Calhoun is a leading international sociologist, with particular
interests in the sociology of religion and the public utility of the social sciences.
Professor Jane Elliott, Chief Executive, Economic and Social Research Council
(ESRC). Professor Elliott is an eminent quantitative sociologist, with a particular
interest in longitudinal studies.
Lord Robert Kerslake, former Permanent Secretary, Department for
Communities and Local Government (DCLG) and former Head of the UK Civil
Service. Lord Kerslake has been a significant user and commissioner of social science
at the highest levels within government, involved in knowledge exchange and
working particularly in the area of local authorities.
Professor Martin Partington CBE QC (Hon), Emeritus Professor of Law,
University of Bristol. Professor Partington is an eminent socio-legal scholar working
in the field of housing law, welfare law and administrative justice and served as a Law
Commissioner for England and Wales.
The full list of new Fellows is as follows:
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Professor Yehuda Baruch, Professor of Management, University of Southampton.
Professor Baruch has advanced the field of human resource management (HRM),
with particular interests in career studies and international HRM.
Professor Julian Birkinshaw, Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship, London
Business School. Professor Birkinshaw is a leading researcher into management
practices and innovation.
Professor Hugh Bochel, Professor of Public Policy, University of Lincoln.
Professor Bochel is an expert on political leadership, policy making, and local
government.
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Professor Craig Calhoun, Director, London School of Economics and Political
Science.
Professor Richard Collier, Professor of Law and Social Theory, Newcastle
University. Professor Collier is a distinguished socio-legal scholar who has played a
pioneering role in law and gender research and scholarship, particularly through an
exploration of the construction of legal masculinities.
Professor Colin Copus, Professor of Local Politics, De Montfort University.
Professor Copus is an expert authority on local politics.
Professor David Crighton, Honorary Professor of Psychology, Durham
University and Consultant Forensic Psychologist. Professor Crighton is at the
forefront of forensic psychology, with particular interests and influence in risk
assessment across the forensic field and suicide in prisons.
Professor Emerita Vaneeta-marie D’Andrea, Professor Emerita in Sociology
of Education, University of the Arts London. Professor D’Andrea has made a
particular impact in the world of higher education policy.
Professor Nicholas Deakin, Emeritus Professor of Social Policy, University of
Birmingham. Professor Deakin has been a leading researcher in the field of social
policy.
Professor Isabel Dyck, Professor Emeritus in Geography, Queen Mary, University
of London. Professor Dyck has produced outstanding scholarship on feminist, health
and migration geography.
Professor Jane Elliot, CEO ESRC.
Professor Jane Falkingham, Professor of Demography and International Social
Policy, University of Southampton. Particular interests in intergenerational transfers
and relationships, and the economics and inequalities of ageing and the lifecourse
have brought Professor Falkingham to the forefront of demography.
Professor Becky Francis, Professor of Education and Social Justice, King’s
College, London. Professor Francis’ work on gender identities and social justice in
education has been particularly notable.
Professor Theresa Gannon, Professor of Forensic Psychology, University of
Kent. Having carried out key work with female sex offenders, Professor Gannon is
an international expert in forensic psychology, especially offender behaviour.
Dr Rita Gardner CBE, Director, Royal Geographical Society (with Institute of
British Geographers). An academic geographer, Dr Gardner is also a leading figure in
the learned society management sector, closely involved in knowledge exchange
programmes and the promotion of social science, and policy development. She has a
particular interest in developing and protecting geography education.
Professor Erica Haimes, Professor of Sociology, Newcastle University. Professor
Haimes is a sociologist whose excellent work focuses on the social and ethical
context and implications of developments in the life sciences.
Dr Sara Horrell, University Senior Lecturer in Economics, University of
Cambridge. Dr Horrell is a researcher into living standards and women and
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children’s work and welfare in industrialising Britain. She has taken that work beyond
academia and into the contemporary world in work with the Department for
International Development (DfID), exploring barriers to female empowerment and
the alleviation of poverty.
Professor Christopher Hughes, Professor of International Politics and Japanese
Studies, University of Warwick. Professor Hughes is one of Europe’s leading experts
on international relations with Japan, particularly the US-Japan alliance.
Professor David James, Professor in Social Sciences, Cardiff University. Professor
James is an exceptional educational theorist with particular interests in learning
cultures and school choice, identity and social class.
Professor David Jary, Emeritus Professor, Staffordshire University. Professor Jary
is a pioneering teacher of sociology and a writer on sociological theory.
Lord Robert Kerslake, Former Permanent Secretary, Department for
Communities and Local Government.
Professor Jill Manthorpe, Professor of Social Work, Kings College London.
Professor Manthorpe is a gerontologist who leads outstanding research on social
care and health services.
Professor James Nazroo, Professor of Sociology, University of Manchester.
Professor Nazroo has gained international recognition for his work in the field of
ethnic inequalities in health and later life.
Professor Edoardo Ongaro, Professor of International Public Services
Management, Northumbria University. Professor Ongaro is an eminent social
scientist in the field of administrative sciences, public administration and public
management.
Professor Deborah Oxley, Professor of Social Science History, University of
Oxford. Professor Oxley is a pioneering applier of social science approaches and
methods to the study of historical problems.
Professor Martin Partington CBE QC (Hon), Emeritus Professor of Law,
University of Bristol.
Professor Andy Ross, Economist, High Oak Enterprises. Professor Ross is an
economist and teacher of economics, who has been a key figure in promoting high
quality economic thinking, analysis and policy development as well as engagement
across the social sciences within government.
Professor Hilary Sommerlad, Professor of Law, University of Birmingham.
Professor Sommerlad works on diversity in the legal profession, professional identity
formation and legal aid practice.
Professor Aileen Stockdale, Professor of Environmental Planning, Queen’s
University Belfast. Professor Stockdale is an internationally renowned researcher in
the rural geography and planning, particularly rural migration and development.
Professor Celia Wells OBE, Professor of Criminal Law, University of Bristol.
Professor Wells is one of the UK’s foremost academic lawyers, with a particular
interest in public policy.
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Tim Whitaker, Director of Policy and Communication, General Dental Council.
Mr Whitaker is a social researcher and policy analyst who has focused on health
service delivery, public policy for health and who has done pioneering work in
developing the communication and dissemination of social science beyond academia.
Professor Stephen Whittle OBE, Professor of Equalities Law, Manchester
Metropolitan University. Professor Whittle is a leading worker in the field of
transgender rights.
Professor James Wilsdon, Professor of Science and Democracy, University of
Sussex and Chair, Campaign for Social Science. Professor Wilsdon is a broad-ranging
social scientist, with a particular interest in multidisciplinary applications in public and
social policy making. He is Chair of the Academy’s Campaign for Social Science.
For more information, please contact:
Helen Spriggs
Membership Manager
spriggs@acss.org.uk
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Notes to Editors
The Academy of Social Sciences is the National Academy of Academics, Learned Societies
and Practitioners in the Social Sciences. Its members include around 1000 Fellows from
universities and the policy and practice communities, who are given Fellow status after a
peer group has reviewed the standing and impact of their work. Fellows are entitled to put
the letters ‘FAcSS’ after their name. The Academy also has 43 member learned societies,
representing over 90,000 social scientists. It launched the Campaign for Social Science in
2011.
See: acss.org.uk and campaignforsocialscience.org.uk