The Academy of Learned Societies for the Social Sciences is a research body in the
UK.
As of February 2007, the Academy was composed of over 450 Academicians and 32 Learned Societies.
Academicians are distinguished
scholars and practitioners from academia and the public and private sectors. Most of the
Learned Societies in the
Social Sciences in the
United Kingdom are represented within the Academy. Academicians are elected on the nomination either of constituent societies or of existing academicians; they may use the letters "AcSS" (Academician of the Social Sciences) after their name. The Academy's ambition is that the status of AcSS should confer the same kind of prestige as fellowship of the
Royal Society or the
British Academy; while it is some distance from reaching this goal, many of the most prominent academic social scientists in the UK are now academicians.
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