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]
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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]
There were 64 people elected to the fellowship in April 2025:[43]