It confers the title of Fellow upon nominated social scientists following a process of peer review.
From 1999 to 2007 it was called the Academy of Learned Societies for the Social Sciences before changing to its current name.
[1] The academy is run by a council of 21 members, with Professor Roger Goodman FAcSS as its current chair, and Professor Sir Ivor Crewe FAcSS, Master of University College, Oxford, as its current president.
Past consultations include: The academy also puts forward suggestions to the Government about which social scientists should carry out its Foresight research projects,[8] which look at important issues and how these might change over the next 20 to 80 years.
The academy also publishes a cross-disciplinary peer-reviewed journal, Contemporary Social Science.