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Launch of Making the Case for the Social Sciences 3: Sustainability, the Environment and Climate Change The third issue in the Academy series was launched on 2 November at 61 Whitehall. Sir John Beddington and Michael Meacher MP spoke to a crowded room. Read more...
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Campaign for Social Science In January the Academy will launch a major Campaign to promote and defend UK social science and its top international ranking. To deliver this Campaign successfully the Academy's existing resources need to be strengthened, so we will seek to raise £250,000 to fund a research unit and a public engagement unit over five years. From our uniquely representative and extensive membership these units will amass evidence showing the added value to society of social science research and the problems that arise when it is not carried out., and then feed stories into the media to heighten awareness and lobby effectively. Member learned societies have already been contacted about this Campaign. Academicians will receive more information in due course about regional roadshows which will bring the Campaign to you, and the various ways in which you can help. ******** |
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President's Lunch The annual President's Lunch will be held on Wednesday 8th December in the elegant surroundings of the Old Hall at Lincoln's Inn in London. Kelvin Hopkins MP, Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Social Science and Policy, and Phil Sooben, Director of Policy and Administration at ESRC will speak. Click Here for more information Visit the Events page to book online STOP PRESS! JUST A FEW PLACES REMAINING! ******** |
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Nominations The closing date for the winter nominations round is Friday 10 December 2010. Forms and guidelines can be downloaded from within the Members' Area. The guidelines are also available here. Please note the Academy now welcomes nominations of social scientists based wholly overseas. ********* |
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Future issues of Making the Case for the Social Sciences - Call for stories
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News of Academicians Professor Ruth Lister CBE AcSS, shown here speaking at the launch of Making the Case for the Social Sciences - Wellbeing, has been elevated to the peerage as a Labour member of the House of Lords. |
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Professor Cary Cooper CBE AcSS has been awarded the Lord Dearing Lifetime Achievement Award by the Times Higher Education. |
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Professor Geoff Harcourt AcSS has been awarded the Veblen Commons Award by the Association for Evolutionary Economics. |
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