A quick note to record in the interests of full disclosure that it has been announced today that I have been elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.
The Academy says:
Social science is the study of people: as individuals, communities and societies; their behaviours and interactions with each other and with their built, technological and natural environments. Social science seeks to understand the evolving human systems across our increasingly complex world and how our planet can be more sustainably managed. It's vital to our shared future.
The Academy exists to advance the study of social science. The vast majority of its 1500 Fellows are professors of the fifteen social science disciplines it recognises. I am one of about ten accounting professors who are Fellows.
I gather from colleagues that this peer recognition is considered prestigious. I am grateful to those who nominated me for the work I have done on tax, social justice, economics and its interaction with society.
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You may have come late to academia, Richard, but your rise since has been rapid. Of course, you deserve it given how much you’d done previously, to which you’ve added much since. So, a very well done from me.
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Many congratulations Richard you well and truly deserve this.
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Fully deserved. I follow your posts every day, and while not always having the the requisite knowledge, your clear explanations help greatly.
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I hope that it goes without saying Richard but I’m very pleased for you
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I see that the Academy of Social Sciences focuses on “social sciences for public benefit, based on evidence”. You are an ideal member who will, if this is true of them, greatly influence their contribution for the common good.
Let’s see…..
Many congratulations.
Craig
Congratulations Richard – well deserved.
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The benefit is that this is peer recognition. I am grateful for that.
Congratulations Richard!
Like many, my knowledge of your field is limited. So I value your regular posts for both their clarity, and your humanity, in an increasingly complex and disturbing world.
Many thanks!
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Congratulations! It is indeed a mark of prestige. Though such things don’t add to the real value of the work done, the recognition can be useful.
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And true
Congratulations, Richard.
I see for example Ha-Joon Chang in the list of new fellows at https://acss.org.uk/news/academy-of-social-sciences-welcomes-47-leading-social-scientists-to-its-fellowship-this-spring/
That’s good company
Brilliant news Richard, and so well deserved.
Shame the pay and pensions (if you are in the University’s Suoperannuation Scheme) and workload and equalities and job security in the HE sector have declined so much (and I am partisan because that’s the sector in which I work)
Thankfully the University is only part of my work life
I am delighted for you, Richard, and hope that this recognition enables your wise voice to be received ever more widely. My warmest congratulations!
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I think those who nominated me hoped for that outcome
Congratulations! Well deserved.
Congratulations Richard, delighted to hear this. Please keep on keeping on.
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I will
Congratulations Richard, truly well deserved for all your hard dedicated work.
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Very well done Richard
Keep up the good work
I’ll try
Wonderful news! Many congratulations. An honour well earned and well justified.
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Congratulations Richard on a well-deserved honour. In an increasingly illogical and deranged world your work brings reason and gravitas to a wide range of topics at a time when so many of its so-called “leaders” demonstrate neither of these qualities.
Congratulations: very well deserved. It is heartening to know that there are still places for sane, rational, measured people of good intention and solid heart in our public life.
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Richard, I agree with everyone, but particularly with Ken and ELIZA