Academy of Social Sciences - Advocacy

Advocacy

The Academy advocates social science by interacting with Government and other organisations, and co-ordinates the responses of social scientists to Government consultation documents. Recent consultations include:

• The Higher Education White Paper, ‘Putting students at the heart of the system’.
• The House of Commons Science and Technology Committee enquiry on the role of departmental advisers
• The Office for National Statistics consultation on measuring national wellbeing
• The Academy of Medical Sciences review of medical research regulation and governance.

The Academy also puts forward suggestions to the Government about which social scientists should carry out its Foresight research projects, which look at important issues and how these might change over the next 20 to 80 years.

A developing part of the Academy’s work is to bring researchers and organisations using research closer together to improve the evidence upon which public policy is based and to increase the impact of research.