Objectives of social science resource room

 

• To promote excellence in and encourage the advancement of social science  through research, education and service to the community.

 

• To support its constituent Learned Societies and to encourage collaboration to promote interdisciplinary approaches to social science.

 

• To represent, in conjunction with the constituent Learned Societies, the interests of social science to national and local government; research, teaching and funding bodies and agencies; private sector companies and public sector agencies.

 

• To comment as appropriate on national needs and priorities in social science.

 

• To encourage international co-operation in the advancement of social science.

 

• To disseminate information about social science and what it contributes to society, to the general public and to educational institutions.

 

• To recognize and celebrate outstanding contributions of individual social scientists.