The new Fellows have significantly advanced research knowledge and developed new approaches to areas as diverse as accounting, linguistics, political science, psychology and urbanism.
The new Fellows from the University of Sydney are:
- Professor David Alais, Professor of Experimental Psychology, School of Psychology
- Professor David Burr, Professor of Psychology, School of Psychology
- Professor Robyn Dowling, Professor of Urbanism and Associate Dean, Research, School of Architecture Design and Planning
- Professor Nick Enfield, Professor of Linguistics, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, and Director of the Sydney Social Sciences and Humanities Advanced Research Centre
- Professor Simon Jackman, Professor, Department of Government and International Relations and CEO of the United States Studies Centre
- Professor Stewart Jones, Professor of Accounting and Head of Discipline (Accounting), the University of Sydney Business School.
President of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, Professor Glenn Withers AO, congratulated the scholars elected this year.
"The strength of Australian social sciences is reflected in these appointments," he said in a statement. "The scholars elected here to Fellowship have each made contributions of excellence, as recognised by their peers in an exhaustive electoral process."
University of Sydney Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) Professor Duncan Ivison echoed these sentiments and congratulated the new Fellows.
"I am thrilled that six of our academics have been recognised as Australia’s most accomplished social scientists. This is a wonderful recognition of their individual disciplinary achievements and reflects the University’s research strength across the social sciences more broadly," he said.
The Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia is one of the country’s four Learned Academies and seeks to promote excellence in the social sciences in Australia and in their contribution to public policy.
The New Fellows of the Academy will be formally welcomed and inducted at the Academy’s General Meeting and Annual Symposium to be held in Canberra from 12-14 November 2018.
