The Fellowship of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS) is an award granted by the Academy of Social Sciences to leading academics, policy-makers, and practitioners of the social sciences.
Fellows were previously known as Academicians and used the post-nominal letter "AcSS".
This was changed in July 2014 to bring the academy in line with other British learned societies.
[1] The first fellows (then known as academicians) were elected in 1999.
The inaugural fellows were:[2] There were 91 people elected to the fellowship in 2002:[3] There were 60 people elected to the fellowship in 2003:[4] There were 51 people elected to the fellowship in 2004:[5] There were 63 people elected to the fellowship in March 2006:[6] There were 20 people elected to the fellowship in September 2006:[7] These people are known to have been selected sometime prior to 2007:[8] There were 64 people elected to the fellowship in 2009:[9] There were 31 people elected to the fellowship in 2010:[10] There were 70 people elected to the fellowship in February 2011:[11] There were 52 people elected to the fellowship in October 2011:[12] There were 63 people elected to the fellowship in 2012:[13] There were 35 people elected to the fellowship in March 2013:[14] There were 51 people elected to the fellowship in August 2013:[15] There were 28 people elected to the fellowship in March 2014:[16] There were 34 people elected to the fellowship in September 2014:[17][18] There were 33 people elected to the fellowship in March 2015:[19] There were 46 people elected to the fellowship in October 2015:[20] There were 42 people elected to the fellowship in March 2016:[21] There were 84 people elected to the fellowship in October 2016:[22] There were 47 people elected to the fellowship in March 2017:[23] There were 69 people elected to the fellowship in October 2017:[24] There were 58 people elected to the fellowship in April 2018:[25] There were 43 people elected to the fellowship in October 2018:[26] There were 73 people elected to the fellowship in March 2019:[27] There were 65 people elected to the fellowship in October 2019:[28] There were 51 people elected to the fellowship in March 2020:[29] There were 73 people elected to the fellowship in October 2020:[30] There were 37 people elected to the fellowship in February 2021:[31] There were 74 people elected to the fellowship in September 2021:[32][33] There were 47 people elected to the fellowship in March 2022:[34][35] There were 40 people elected to the fellowship in September 2022:[36][37] There were 55 people elected to the fellowship in March 2023:[38][39] There were 47 people elected to the fellowship in October 2023:[40] There were 41 people elected to the fellowship in March 2024:[41] There were 45 people elected to the fellowship in September 2024:[42]