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Who leads it
- Professor Sara Lindsay CarterDirector · since 2025
- Dr Heather Kathryn RolfeDirector · since 2025
- Professor Janet Marion BoddyDirector · since 2025
- Professor Nicholas David Vaughan-WilliamsDirector · since 2025
- Professor Jackline WahbaDirector · since 2025
- Dr Megan Louise LawsonDirector · since 2025
- Professor Tricia Alison DoddDirector · since 2024
- Professor Linda Caroline BauldDirector · since 2024
- Professor Simin DavoudiDirector · since 2024
- Professor Christopher MillwardDirector · since 2024
- Dr Utsa MukherjeeDirector · since 2024
- Professor John Peter ScottDirector · since 2023
- Professor Imogen TylerDirector · since 2023
- Ian RiversDirector · since 2022
- Professor Lisa Marie AndersonDirector · since 2022
- Professor Timothy John BlackmanDirector · since 2021
- Professor Richard BlackDirector · since 2021
- William Nicholas HuttonDirector · since 2021
- Professor Kavita VedharaDirector · since 2021
Previous officers 96
- Power, Sally Anne Ruth, Doctor 2022-2025 View profile
- Professor Robert Duffy 2019-2025 View profile
- Professor Anthony Mark Mcenery 2019-2025 View profile
- Professor Gillian Margaret Valentine 2019-2022 View profile
- Professor Eileen Green 2019-2025 View profile
- Professor Judith Eleri Philips 2019-2025 View profile
- Stephen Charles Aldridge 2019-2025 View profile
- Professor Tim Allen 2019-2025 View profile
- Lord Robert Walter Kerslake 2019-2023 View profile
- Dame Jilian Norma Matheson 2018-2025 View profile
- Professor Anthony Derek Howell Crook 2018-2024 View profile
- Simon Marginson 2018-2024 View profile
- Vicky Pryce 2018-2024 View profile
- Professor Peter Nicholas Hugh Beech 2018-2024 View profile
- Professor Shamit Saggar Facss 2017-2019 View profile
- Professor Sasha Roseneil 2017-2023 View profile
- Professor Richard Collins 2017-2020 View profile
- Christopher John Caswill Facss 2016-2022 View profile
- Professor Cara Carmichael Aitchison 2015-2021 View profile
- Professor Patricia Mary Broadfoot 2015-2018 View profile
- Professor Linda Hantrais Facss 2015-2018 View profile
- Professor Roger James Goodman 2015-2021 View profile
- Professor Andrew Malcolm Jones 2015-2021 View profile
- Professor David Sidney Byrne Facss 2015-2021 View profile
- Prof Matthew Vincent Flinders 2015-2017 View profile
- Professor Catherine Jane Pope 2015-2018 View profile
- Professor Jane Pamela Broadbent Facss 2014-2019 View profile
- Professor James Wilsdon Facss 2013-2019 View profile
- Professor John Burgess Goddard 2013-2019 View profile
- Professor Robert William James Dingwall Facss 2013-2019 View profile
- Professor Amanda Jane Griffiths Acss 2013-2015 View profile
- Professor Michael William Danson Facss 2013-2019 View profile
- Dr Rita Ann Moden Gardner 2013-2018 View profile
- Professor Susan Jane Scott 2013-2019 View profile
- Andrew Ross 2013-2019 View profile
- Professor John David Brewer 2012-2015 View profile
- Professor Adam Thomas Tickell 2012-2015 View profile
- Jane Isobel Millar 2012-2018 View profile
- Professor Jonathan Michie Facss 2011-2017 View profile
- Professor Ann Hermione Buchanan 2011-2017 View profile
- Professor Ivor Harold Gaber 2011-2013 View profile
- Prof Christina Rita Victor 2011-2013 View profile
- Barbara Doig Facss 2011-2016 View profile
- David Victor Canter 2010-2013 View profile
- Harloe, Michael Howard, Professor Emeritus 2009-2015 View profile
- Professor William Dominic Joshua Abrams 2009-2015 View profile
- Professor Fiona Caird Cownie 2009-2015 View profile
- Professor Sir Cary Lynn Cooper 2009-2015 View profile
- Professor Philip John Davies 2008-2010 View profile
- Professor Malcolm Lewis Johnson 2008-2014 View profile
- Professor Rosemary Helen Lawton Smith 2008-2012 View profile
- Robert Ian William Upton 2008-2011 View profile
- Dr David Graham Pearson 2007-2013 View profile
- Professor Peter Fearon 2007-2013 View profile
- Professor Irene Hardill 2007-2013 View profile
- Professor Roger William Vickerman 2007-2013 View profile
- Professor Ian Roger Gough 2007-2013 View profile
- Professor John Richard Urry 2006-2012 View profile
- Professor John Terence Benyon 2006-2013 View profile
- Professor Elliot Stern 2005-2011 View profile
- Vetere, Arlene Louise, Doctor 2005-2006 View profile
- Ceridwen Mary Roberts 2005-2011 View profile
- Professor Geoffrey Nigel Gilbert 2005-2009 View profile
- Professor Richard John Cyril Munton 2005-2008 View profile
- Professor John Robert Gardner 2005-2011 View profile
- Professor Robert Martin Blackburn 2005-2011 View profile
- Dr Janet Diana Lewis 2005-2009 View profile
- Michael William Danson 2004-2012 View profile
- Professor Miriam Elizabeth David 2003-2009 View profile
- Michael Christopher Warren 2002-2005 View profile
- Professor Peter Egon Glasner 2002-2004 View profile
- Professor Henrietta Louise Moore 2002-2008 View profile
- Professor Dianne Berry 2002-2005 View profile
- Professor Margaret Louise Brown 2000-2002 View profile
- Professor Paul Stephen Jeffcutt 2000-2003 View profile
- Professor Jean Martin 2000-2005 View profile
- Robert John Bennett 2000-2002 View profile
- Roger Mark Jowell 2000-2002 View profile
- Denis James Galligan 2000-2002 View profile
- Professor Ronald Jonas Frankenberg 2000-2002 View profile
- Professor Ronald John Johnston 2000-2002 View profile
- Professor John Annette 2000-2001 View profile
- Professor Joan Elizabeth Orme 2000-2001 View profile
- Professor Mark Peter Victor Easterby-Smith 2000-2003 View profile
- Katherine Sara Delamont 2000-2006 View profile
- Professor Antony John Chapman 2000-2002 View profile
- Sally Jane Hardy 2000-2004 View profile
- Eva Stina Lyon 1999-2005 View profile
- Dr Ian Gregory Forbes 1999-2005 View profile
- Professor Lord Raymond Plant 1999-2001 View profile
- Dame Jil Matheson 2019-2024 View profile
- Professor Jane Broadbent Facss 2015-2019 View profile
- Professor Fiona Caird Cownie 2013-2015 View profile
- Michael Edward Hyman Jacobs 2005-2009 View profile
- Professor David Andrew Turner 1999-2006 View profile
- Andy Andrew John Cawdell 1999-2001 View profile
Directors and secretaries as filed at Companies House.
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About
- What it does
- Activities of professional membership organizations
- Incorporated
- 24/09/1999
- Registered office
- London
- Also a registered charity
- Academy of Social Sciences
- Previous names
- The Academy of Learned Societies for the Social Sciences (until 05/07/2007)
Board analysis
Board DNA
How this board is put together, from the Companies House officer record and Charity Commission trustee records - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Companies House officer record: the current directors only, past directors excluded.
19 directors on the board
- Professor John Peter Scott Director · appointed 2023
- Dr Heather Kathryn Rolfe Director · appointed 2025
- Professor Timothy John Blackman Director · appointed 2021
- Professor Janet Marion Boddy Director · appointed 2025
- Professor Richard Black Director · appointed 2021
- Professor Simin Davoudi Director · appointed 2024
- Professor Tricia Alison Dodd Director · appointed 2024
- Professor Linda Caroline Bauld Director · appointed 2024
- Professor Lisa Marie Anderson Director · appointed 2022
- William Nicholas Hutton Director · appointed 2021
- Professor Nicholas David Vaughan-Williams Director · appointed 2025
- Professor Christopher Millward Director · appointed 2024
- Ian Rivers Director · appointed 2022
- Professor Kavita Vedhara Director · appointed 2021
- Dr Utsa Mukherjee Director · appointed 2024
- Professor Jackline Wahba Director · appointed 2025
- Professor Imogen Tyler Director · appointed 2023
- Dr Megan Louise Lawson Director · appointed 2025
- Professor Sara Lindsay Carter Director · appointed 2025
First-time vs portfolio directors
First-time (10)
- Professor Timothy John Blackman Director · appointed 2021
- Professor Janet Marion Boddy Director · appointed 2025
- Professor Tricia Alison Dodd Director · appointed 2024
- Professor Lisa Marie Anderson Director · appointed 2022
- Professor Kavita Vedhara Director · appointed 2021
- Dr Utsa Mukherjee Director · appointed 2024
- Professor Jackline Wahba Director · appointed 2025
- Professor Imogen Tyler Director · appointed 2023
- Dr Megan Louise Lawson Director · appointed 2025
- Professor Sara Lindsay Carter Director · appointed 2025
Portfolio (9)
- Professor John Peter Scott Director · appointed 2023
- Dr Heather Kathryn Rolfe Director · appointed 2025
- Professor Richard Black Director · appointed 2021
- Professor Simin Davoudi Director · appointed 2024
- Professor Linda Caroline Bauld Director · appointed 2024
- William Nicholas Hutton Director · appointed 2021
- Professor Nicholas David Vaughan-Williams Director · appointed 2025
- Professor Christopher Millward Director · appointed 2024
- Ian Rivers Director · appointed 2022
Also govern a charity
- Professor Richard Black Ashanti Development
- Professor Simin Davoudi Town and Country Planning Association
- Professor Linda Caroline Bauld Faculty of Public Health of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of the United Kingdom
- Professor Christopher Millward Society for Research Into Higher Education
- Ian Rivers National Centre for Social Research
Left in the last 12 months
- Professor Robert Duffy Director · appointed 2019 · resigned 2025
Where else this board sits iWhere else this board sitsThe charitable fields these directors govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this company and any charity it is the legal face of.
The sectors these directors govern in elsewhere. This company, and any charity it is the legal face of, are excluded - counting them would just tell you what you are already looking at.
Gaps to watch
- No director brings board experience from anywhere else
- Narrow spread of sectors across the board
Where to look Suggested search: a director with board experience elsewhere; directors from a wider range of sectors.
Sources
Official record from Companies House. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Company number
- 03847936
- Status
- Active
- Type
- PRI/LBG/NSC (Private, Limited by guarantee, no share capital, use of 'Limited' exemption)
- Accounts next due
- 30/09/2027
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
- Labels
- Official record from Companies House · Calculated derived by Governance Register.
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