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AGM and Elections

The Academy's AGM will be held on 4th July at 4.30pm at 30 Tabernacle Street, London EC2A 4UE. It will be preceded by a talk from Professor John Brewer AcSS on the Public Value of the Social Sciences, at 2.30pm. There are 8 places available on Council from the AGM and declarations of candidacy are invited. Click here for more information.

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CURRENT CONSULTATION WORK

Academy Submits to Spending Review

The Academy has made a submission demonstrating the contribution of social science to the economy to inform the government's decisions during the upcoming Spending Review.  Thank you to all who helped by providing case studies. Read the submission here (pdf).

Invitation to Respond to Balances of Competencies

BIS is inviting members of the Academy to respond to the Call for Evidence for the Balance of Competences Report on Research and Development. this Report enables people to have their say on what the EU means for the UK. More...

Letter to Science Europe about Open Access

The Academy has written to Science Europe expressing concerns about its Position Statement on open access publishing of research. Read the Position Statement here (pdf) and the Academy's letter here (pdf).

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Evaluation of Learned Societies Project

The Academy invites tender applications from suitably qualified consultants to undertake an evaluation of learned societies. The first phase will be to evaluate the social and economic value of learned societies to set a benchmark for the second later phase to evaluate the impact of the move to open access publishing in the UK on learned societies on learned societies.

The Invitation to Tender document can be downloaded here. The return date for completed tenders is Friday 31st May. This work builds directly on an earlier project to describe the work of learned societies published as Developing Dialogue. Both the earlier project and now this one have been supported by ESRC in respect of grant funding, for which the Academy is grateful.

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Research Ethics

The Academy is taking forward its initiative to develop generic ethical principles for use across social science research. More information and the reports from the first symposium are now available Here..

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Myths and Realities

Social Media: New democracy or mass deception?

17th June 2013 6.30-8pm at the British Library, London. With the rise of citizen journalism through blogging and Twitter we are often told that communication is more democratic than ever before; but has social media really disrupted the status quo in terms of power and influence? Is social media an instrument of modern capitalism and the political elite, or a tool for changing the distribution of power? What do we know about access to social media and how different groups can use it to bring about change? What new structures of influence are formed and which old ones remain? Download flyer here.

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ESRC Summer School

on Corpus Approaches to Social Science

Read More (CASS website)

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New Academicians

The Academy is delighted to welcome 35 eminent social scientists into membership as Academicians. Read the list here.

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Academicians become Fellows of Learned Society of Wales

Professor Barbara Adam AcSS, Professor Alan Felstead AcSS, Professor Paul Furlong AcSS, Professor Kelvyn Jones AcSS, and Ceridwen Roberts AcSS have all been elected Fellows of the Learned Society of Wales. The Academy congratulates these Welsh-connected Academicians on this additional recognition of their eminence in their fields.

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Consultations Activity

The Academy has submitted to the House of Commons BIS Select Committee Inquiry on Open Access: read the submission here. The Academy also submitted to the HEFCE consultation on its research ethics concordat, plus HEFCE and RCUK consultations on OA. Read the RCUK OA submission here and HEFCE here.The SRA submission to HMRC on VAT exemption withdrawal on research is available here.

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Careers in Social Science

Click here to visit a new page containing links to member learned society information about careers in their disciplines.

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Podcasts for Contemporary Social Science

The journal editor, Professor David Canter AcSS, is producing podcasts introducing each issue of the journal, available as MP3 file or as pdf transcript from the journal home page.

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REPORTS FROM PAST EVENTS

President's Lunch 2012 and Launch of 'Making the Case for the Social Sciences 7 - Scotland'

Click here for a full report and photos.

Click here to read David Canter's blogpost on Making the Case: Scotland'

Implementing 'Finch' - Workshop on Open Access

The Art of Political Influencing

Social scientists have more ability to influence Select Committees than they might think, but may not be taking full advantage of the opportunities presented. This was one of a number of points to come out of the Art of Political Influencing seminar in London on 18 October, run by the Campaign for Social Science. More..

AGM 2012

Read the report of the AGM and Peter Taylor Gooby's talk: 'Social Science - only itself to blame?' here.