Forthcoming Events and News Headlines

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British Library Public Lecture Series

New lectures on: 'Educational Standards and Examinations' on 8th September and 'Class: is it still relevant?' on 1st November. The events are held at the British Library in Euston, London. Click here for more details.

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Work and Wellbeing Conference

This major day conference will be held on 20th October. Speakers will include Professor Cary Cooper CBE AcSS and Professor Dame Carol Black and cover a wide range of issues for both practitioners and academics. Click Here for further details or visit the News Page.

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President's Lunch

The Annual President's Lunch will take place on Wednesday 8 December at Lincoln's Inn. Visit the Events page for details and to book tickets. As in previous years, member learned societies are invited to reserve tables of 10.

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Invitation to Party Political Conference Fringe Events

Members of the Academy are invited to attend fringe events at the party political conferences this month, arranged by the Royal Society. Professor Cary Cooper AcSS CBE will be speaking. More...

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Launch of Making the Case for the Social Sciences 2: Ageing

Tuesday 20 July at the House of Commons saw the launch of the second booklet in the Academy's series of reports showcasing the impact of social science on society. With pensions, dementia and care for the elderly all headline news, More...

Click here to view the report as a pdf.

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Academy AGM

The Annual General Meeting of the Academy took place on 30 June at The HAC in London. Nine new Academicians received their certificates in person from the President, Sir Howard Newby. Jude England, Head of Social Science and Research at the British Library, talked about talked about the library's services, and Mithu Lucraft from Sage Publishing explained the company's new blog for social scientists: socialsciencespace. Read More...

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Academy Contributes to Rawlins Review

The Academy's response to the call for evidence from the Academy of Medical Sciences review of UK medical research regulation and governance, chaired by Sir Michael Rawlins, may be read here.

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Nominations

The deadline for receipt of completed nominations forms in the next round is Friday 10 December 2010. Nominations information and latest forms are available from the Members' Area.

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Academy Forum

This is available to browse via the button labelled 'Forum' to the left of this page. In order to contribute to the moderated forums, members will need to log in to the Members' Area.

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For details of how to become an Affiliate of the Academy of Social Sciences, please click here for information and here for an application form.

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Please Click Here to download the Academy Calendar of Events.