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Social Sciences Roadshow
The Vice Chancellor, Professor Nick Foskett, welcomed the Campaign for the Social Sciences to Keele when it held a successful Roadshow in the Claus Moser Building.
The campaign is an initiative of the Academy of Social Science, which represents over 87,000 social scientists through its member learned societies and Academicians. The purpose of the campaign is to raise the profile of social science in the public, media and Parliament, with a view both to safeguarding and increasing the resources allocated to social science, and to increasing the influence of social scientific research on public policy.
Speakers at the Roadshow included Professor Sir Howard Newby AcSS, Vice-Chancellor of Liverpool University and President of the Academy of Social Science; Stephen Anderson AcSS, Chief Executive of the Academy of Social Science and Ceridwen Roberts, AcSS, Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Social Policy and Intervention at Oxford University. The event was chaired by Professor Fiona Cownie (Law), who is also an Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences. The aim of the Roadshow was not only to publicise the work of the campaign, but also to invite colleagues to become involved in its activities, such as the high-profile 'Making the Case' booklets, used to showcase social science research which has been influential in changing Government policy in a wide range of areas.
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