ACCESS Director Patrick Devine-Wright elected Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences
Published on 1 April 2025
We are delighted to announce that ACCESS Director, Professor Patrick Devine-Wright, has been elected Fellow of the prestigious Academy of Social Sciences.
Academy Fellows are elected for excellence in their fields and for their substantial contributions to social science for public benefit. Selection is through independent peer review.
Patrick said: “Election to the Academy is a wonderful opportunity to learn from and collaborate with existing Fellows to raise the visibility and impact of social science. Being a Fellow is also a way of recognising all of the collaborators, from postdoctoral students and researchers to non-academic partners, that I have worked with over the years across numerous research projects and initiatives. Thank you to all!”
ACCESS would like to congratulate all the Fellows who have been elected this spring and to offer personal congratulations to several environmental social scientists:
- Professor Sherilyn MacGregor, director of the new ESRC JUST Centre, University of Manchester and a confirmed speaker at this year’s ACCESS Assembly;
- Professor Stefan Bouzarovski, a CoInvestigator at the JUST Centre (University of Manchester); and
- Professor Sander van der Linden, former Editor of the Journal of Environmental Psychology (University of Cambridge).
The Academy’s Fellowship comprises 1,600 leading social scientists from academia, the public, private and third sectors. Their expertise covers the breadth of the social sciences, and their practice and research addresses some of the major challenges facing communities, society, places and economies.
This election recognises the work he and ACCESS are doing to increase the visibility, use and impact of social science to tackle our most urgent environmental problems.