For all press enquiries
please call Stephen Anderson the Executive Director on 020 7330 0898 or email director@acss.org.uk.
Recent Press Releases
Thursday 10 November
Sport has a Profound Impact on Society...
World-leading research provides hard evidence
Download the press relase as a pdf file here
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Friday 21 October 2011
Focus on the police response obscures need to deal with underlying causes of summer riots, says Campaign for Social Science
Download the release as a pdf file here
A full report of the conference plus a podcast can be found on the Campaign website.
www.campaignforsocialscience.org.uk
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4 October 2011
Marginalising social sciences within government will result in policy that is not informed by evidence, warns Academy
Download the release as a Word document here
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20 July 2011
Academy of Social Sciences welcomes Lords' Recommendation for appointment of Chief Social Scientist
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1 July 2011
Justice Minister highlights critical role of social science research in crime prevention at launch of new publication
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14 June 2011
Social science's huge contribution to national life recognised in Honours list.
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27 May 2011
Campaign for Social Science Raises £50,000
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13 May 2011
Debate on peer review system escalates
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3 November 2010
The Real Inconvenient Truth: Climate disasters will continue unless behaviour and attitudes change
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October 2010
Statement from the Academy of Social Sciences in respect of the Browne Review proposals and the CSR announcement on 20th October 2010
Download statement here in Word format
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21 July 2010
New report demonstrates ageing research has significant role to play in policy making