Academy of Learned Societies in the Social Sciences
- Academy of Learned Societies in the Social Sciences
The Academy of Learned Societies in the Social Sciences, also known as the Academy of Social Sciences, is an umbrella group of learned societies and individual researchers which seeks to represent the social sciences of the United Kingdom.
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External links
* [http://www.acss.org.uk/ Academy of Learned Societies in the Social Sciences]
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