Leading social scientists honoured

Experts in everything from accountancy to China and spirituality to skills strategies appointed fellows by the Academy of Social Sciences

三月 5, 2016

Professor_Louise_Richardson_by_John_Cairns_4.9.15-A-20 University of Oxford Vice Chancellor

The Academy of Social Sciences is Britain’s national academy of academics, learned societies and practitioners representing nearly 90,000 social scientists. Its annual fellowships are given to those recognised by their peers for the excellence and impact of their work.

Perhaps the most prominent scholar to be singled out this year is terrorism expert Louise Richardson, who became the University of Oxford’s first female vice-chancellor at the beginning of 2016.

Here is the full list of the 42 new fellows with their major areas of expertise:

Max Atkinson, proprietor of Atkinson Communications: public speaking, speech-writing and presentation
Katie Bailey, professor of management, University of Sussex: employee engagement and meaningful work
Eileen Barker, professor of sociology with special reference to the study of religion, London School of Economics: new religious movements
Frank Bechhofer, emeritus professor of social research, University of Edinburgh: the British class structure; the sociology of work and industry; and national identity
Simon Biggs, professor of social policy and gerontology, University of Melbourne: personal and social identity across the life course; elder abuse
Harriet Bradley, professor of women’s employment, University of the West of England: work and industry, particularly women’s employment
Shaun Breslin, professor of politics and international studies, University of Warwick: China’s role in the changing global order and the importance of understanding the domestic drivers of its foreign policy in formulating responses to China’s rise
David Croisdale-Appleby, honorary professor in medicine and health, Durham University: social care policy; social work education; and the importance of rigorous social science methodologies in developing policy and practice
Marguerite Dupree, honorary professor of social and medical history, University of Glasgow: medical history, with a particular interest in the origins and careers of 19th-century doctors and the legacy of Joseph Lister
Nick Ellison, professor of social policy, University of York: social citizenship and rights in developed welfare systems
David Farnham, professor of employment relations emeritus, University of Portsmouth: industrial relations and human resource management
Michael Freeden, emeritus professor of politics, University of Oxford: political science, especially in the field of ideology
Sue Heath, professor of sociology, University of Manchester: housing needs and young people
Jeremy Howells, visiting fellow, University of Oxford: economic geography, especially the economy and society
Jamie Hacker Hughes, visiting professor of military psychology and director of the Veterans and Families Institute, Anglia Ruskin University: military psychology, especially in the area of post-traumatic stress disorder
Christopher Humphrey, professor of accounting, University of Manchester: interdisciplinary and international aspects of auditing and accounting
Ruth Kattumuri, co-director of the LSE India Observatory: development studies in India, particularly in the areas of population, sustainable growth and inclusion, and climate change
Hugh Lauder, professor of education and political economy, University of Bath: the relationship of education to the economy; national skills strategies; and the global skills strategies of multinational companies
Richard Laughlin, emeritus professor of accounting, King’s College London: interdisciplinary and critical perspectives on accounting, particularly public-sector accounting and behaviour responses to societal controls
John MacInnes, professor of sociology, University of Edinburgh: demography; national identities in stateless societies
Josephine Maltby, professor of accounting and finance, University of Sheffield: women as savers and investors; the history of the accounting profession
Beverley Milton-Edwards, professor of politics, Queen’s University Belfast: the Middle East and Islam; terrorism, violence and security
Laurence Moore, director of the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow: the development and evaluation of complex social interventions to improve health
Sarah Nettleton, professor in sociology, University of York: the sociology of health and illness
William Outhwaite, emeritus professor of sociology, Newcastle University: social theory; the relevance of British sociology to international debates
Nicola Phillips, professor of political economy, University of Sheffield: the international political economy; labour standards in global production especially in relation to forced labour, child labour and human trafficking
Debora Price, professor of social gerontology, University of Manchester: inequalities and poverty in later life
Louise Richardson, vice-chancellor and professor of international relations, University of Oxford: terrorism and international relations
Janette Rutterford, professor of financial management, the Open University: the history of investment, particularly investor behaviour and its impact on corporate financial policy and financial governance.
Phillipp Schofield, professor of medieval history, Aberystwyth University: medieval economic and social history, particularly matters of credit and debt
Darren Smith, professor of human geography, Loughborough University: population, rural and urban studies, particularly contemporary migration processes and new social transformations
Patten Smith, director of research methods, Ipsos MORI: the development of robust survey research methods
Paul Stenner, professor of social psychology, the Open University: psychosocial studies; Q methodology and quantitative methods in psychology
John Thompson, professor of sociology, University of Cambridge: mass media
Rachel Thomson, professor of childhood and youth studies, University of Sussex: personal life and social change, including qualitative longitudinal research into childhood and youth, gender, sexuality and family
Valerie Walkerdine, distinguished research professor in social sciences, Cardiff University: psychosocial studies; gender and education
Sam Whimster, professor in sociology, London Metropolitan University: the work of Max Weber
Clare Williams, professor of medical sociology, Brunel University London: innovations in biomedicine, particularly relating to pre-implantation genetic diagnosis, stem cell research, embryo donation and experimental neuroscience
Malcolm Williams, director of Q-Step, Cardiff University: the pedagogy of social research methods
Linda Woodhead MBE, professor of sociology of religion, Lancaster University: the sociology of religion, particularly new forms of spirituality and the return of religion to the public sphere
Johanna Wyn, professor in education, University of Melbourne: youth and young adulthood
Dominic Wyse, professor of early childhood and primary education, UCL Institute of Education; curriculum and pedagogy in early years and primary education, particularly literacy and creativity.