Committees

The Audit Committee monitors the integrity of the financial statements and reviews significant reporting judgments contained within them.

The Audit Committee monitors the integrity of the financial statements and reviews significant reporting judgments contained within them; keeps under review the Academy's stewardship of its funds and resources; and advises Council regarding the appointment or reappointment of the external auditors and the audit fee. It agrees the nature and scope of the audit, discusses any problems or reservations arising from the audit and reviews the auditors' management letter. The Committee advises Council on the wording of its corporate governance statement and the internal audit arrangements, and it reviews the risk management arrangements.

Membership:

Professor Julian Birkinshaw

Professor Julia Black (Chair)

Mr Ian Creagh (External member)

Mr Philip Greenish

Professor April McMahon 

Head of Secretariat: Nick Lambrianou

The Investment Management Committee advises Council through the Management Advisory Committee on the Academy's investment management strategy.

The Investment Management Committee advises Council through the Management Advisory Committee on the Academy's investment management strategy, primarily for its private funds.

Membership:

Mr David Harding (External member)

Professor John Kay

Professor Hélène Rey

Professor Sarah Worthington (Chair)

(Secretary: Graeme Appleby)

The membership of the British Academy's Development Board.

The Development Board of the British Academy

Membership:

Mohamed Amersi, external member

Sir Victor Blank (Chair), external member

Professor Sir David Cannadine 

Dame Liz Forgan

Sir Brian Ivory, external member

Baroness Helena Kennedy 

Professor Sally Shuttleworth

Sam Gyimah, external member

Adam Wethered, external member

(Secretary: Jo Hopkins)

The Fellowship and Structures Committee reviews the representation within the Fellowship of the subjects that make up the humanities and social sciences; it monitors the process of election to the Fellowship; and it considers the claims for election of persons whose work does not fall within the purview of any Section. The President regularly invites attendance by Fellows, eg former Presidents, whose experience is useful in dealing with FSC business.

Membership

Professor Dominic Abrams (Vice President Social Sciences)

Professor Sir David Cannadine

Professor Helen Cooper

Professor Thomas Corns

Professor Aditi Lahiri

Professor Ritchie Robertson

Professor David Sanders

Professor John Scott

Professor Dame Helen Wallace

(Secretary: Marion Paterson)

The Research and Higher Education Policy Committee takes an overview of, and approves priorities for, the Academy’s research funding, HE and skills policy in the context of national requirements and overall strategy.

Membership:

Professor Michael Braddick 

Professor Sir Ian Diamond

Professor Katharine Ellis

Professor David Feldman

Professor Matthew Flinders, external member

Professor Roger Kain

Professor Neil Kenny

Anne Kiem, external member

Professor April McMahon

Professor John Scott

Professor Simon Swain (Chair)

Professor Jane Winters

(Secretary: Harriet Barnes)

The Higher Education Policy Development Group shapes and informs policy projects in the area of research and higher education. Following strategic advice from the Research and Higher Education Policy Committee the committee supports the policy team in developing high impact policy work ensuring that it has maximum impact.

Membership

Professor Mike Braddick FBA (Chair)

Dr Sean Adams,

Professor Keith Brown

Mr Nick Hillman

Professor Roger Kain FBA

Professor Steven Mithen FBA,                     

Professor Graham Reid

Professor James Wilsdon

Professor Michael Worton

The Research Awards Committee combines the previously separate roles of the Posts Committee and Grants Committee as a single new body to take responsibility for the whole range of Fellowships and Grants offered by the Academy is the best way forward. This structure oversees any increased grants activity as a result of fundraising.

Membership

Professor Katharine Ellis (Chair)

Professor Stephen Daniels

Professor Robert Fowler

Professor Emily Grundy

Professor Charles Hulme

Professor Lorna Hutson

Professor Edward Page

Professor Ulinka Rublack

Professor Stephen Shennan

(Secretary: Ken Emond)

The Projects Committee assess the scope for new projects and initiatives in the light of the mission of the Academy and prospective developments in the academic community, and recommends potential initiatives, especially collaborative ventures, for Academy support and funding. It maintains oversight, including periodic review, of the progress and needs of projects designated as Academy Research Projects. It administers periodic competitions for additions to the Academy's portfolio of ARPs and for other forms of project support and special initiatives.

Membership

Professor Bruce Campbell

Professor David Feldman (Chair)

Professor Judith Lieu

Professor Patrick Sims-Williams

Professor Pat Thane

(Secretary: Ken Emond)

The committee oversees and monitors the allocation of Academy funding to a set of research institutes that enable British and international research.

As part of the British Academy's strategy for international engagement, the committee oversees and monitors the allocation of Academy funding to a set of research institutes that enable British and international research, networking and collaboration in geographical areas of interest and importance. 

Membership:

Professor Catherine Alexander, external member

Mr Alan Gibbins, external member

Professor Simon Goldhill

Professor Anne Haour, external member

Professor Glynis Jones

Professor Eugene Rogan

Professor Charles Tripp (Chair)

Dr Lutgarde Vandeput, external member

(Secretary: Dr Dessy Stoichkova)

The membership of the British Academy's Public Policy Committee.

The Academy’s public policy programme of work is overseen by the Vice-President (Public Policy), Professor Genevra Richardson FBA, drawing on advice from the Public Policy Committee (PPC). The Committee is chaired by Professor Richardson and includes Fellows as well as external stakeholders amongst its members.

Membership

James Bowler, external member

Professor Margot Brazier

Professor Sir John Curtice  

Professor Sarah Curtis

Sharon Darcy, external member

Professor Anthony Heath

Professor Rae Langton

Professor the Baroness (Ruth) Lister

Dr Helen McCarthy, external member

Professor Tariq Modood

Professor Genevra Richardson (Chair)

Ray Shostak, external member

Professor Fiona Stafford

Professor Sarah Whatmore

(Secretary: Anna Bradshaw)

The UK Strategic Forum for the Social Sciences brings together senior representatives from organisations that fund, commission and use social science research in order to facilitate discussion about the major issues and challenges facing the social sciences. The Forum provides an arena for these issues to be debated at the highest level, and to ensure the needs of the social sciences are addressed and tackled. The Forum was established in 2001, originally hosted by the Economic and Social Research Council. Since October 2009 the British Academy has hosted the Forum. It meets twice-yearly at the offices of the British Academy

The Forum has four key aims:

• To facilitate high-level knowledge exchange;
• To maintain a strategic overview of social science capacity in UK institutions;
• To monitor and share information about the policy, political and structural context within which UK social science research takes place;
• To advocate the value of social science research, in the UK and internationally.

Areas of discussion:

• The Forum’s agenda for its twice-yearly meetings is constructed to enable strategic discussion about topical areas of shared interest or concern. Recent themes included:
• The release of government data for secondary analysis;
• The role of social science, and particularly the Chief Scientific Advisers, in government policy making;
• Government policies on higher education, science and research strategies and funding;
• The Research Excellence Framework;
• The capacity of social science research in UK institutions, including areas of vulnerability;
• The demand for and use of social science research by government and other policy organisation.

Member organisations will use the Forum to debate issues and challenges facing the social sciences. The Forum does not inhibit individual organisations’ freedom of action but will facilitate coherent initiatives and policy positions when it is deemed appropriate.

The Humanities and Social Sciences Learned Societies and Subject Associations Network (HSS LSSA) is convened by the British Academy to bring together academics from across the HSS disciplines to discuss a range of issues and policy developments.

The network meets every six months at the British Academy, usually inviting speakers from the higher education sector to stimulate debate.

The International Engagement Committee (IEC) determines the Academy’s International Strategy, including the Academy’s international thematic priorities, and international engagement globally and regionally, including in Europe and with the European Union. It leads on the delivery of the Academy’s international objectives, and champions an international dimension across the Academy’s activities to ensure synergies, including the British International Research Institutes. IEC defines and monitors high-impact programmes and activities which address the Academy’s international objectives, incorporating all the Academy’s activities related to international development, relations, policy and funding. It oversees and approves the development of all partnership and funding opportunities in the international sphere and the Academy’s engagements with all internationally-focused stakeholders, and leads on communications and representations to international bodies and organisations. It sets and periodically reviews priorities for international work, and advises Council on resources needed.

Membership:

Professor Orazio Attanasio

Professor Sarah Birch

Sir Sherard Cowper Coles, external member

Professor Tamar Garb

Professor Simon Goldhill (Chair)

Professor Michael Heffernan

Professor Melissa Leach

Professor Rana Mitter

Professor David Mosse

Dr Charlotta Salmi, external member

Professor Joanne Scott

Professor Charles Tripp

(Secretary: Philip Lewis)

This committee is responsible for supporting British Academy conferences and for publishing several series of academic publications.

The British Academy seeks to advance scholarship in its disciplines by supporting a select number of British Academy conferences each year, and by publishing themed volumes of essays in the Proceedings of the British Academy series. The British Academy Monographs series provides Academy-supported early career scholars with a career-establishing publication opportunity. The Academy also publishes volumes of primary source material – editions and catalogues – arising from British Academy Research Projects.

For more general readerships, there are the online open access Journal of the British Academy, Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the British Academy, and the British Academy Review magazine.

The Academy’s activity in this area primarily relates to the Academy’s Strategic Priority (2), ‘To invest in the very best researchers and research’.

The committee responsible for all the activities in this section is the Publications and Conferences Committee.

Membership

Professor Dawn Adès

Professor Peter Biller

Professor Gillian Clark

Professor Brian Cummings

Professor Elizabeth Edwards

Professsor Cécile Fabre

Professor Ann Phoenix

Professor David Runciman

Professor Hamish Scott (Chair)

(Secretary: James Rivington)

The Communications and Engagement Committee takes an overview of the Academy's communications and external relations strategy, and advises Council on priorities; facilitates co-ordination across communications, events and publications activities; takes the lead on activities that will raise the Academy's profile and draw public attention to the value of humanities and social sciences scholarship; and advises Council on resources needed and determines budget priorities.

Membership

Professor Sarah Churchwell, external member

Professor Uta Frith

Professor Ronald Hutton

Revd Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch (Chair)

Professor Rana Mitter

Anne Morrison, external member

James Pestell, external member

Nick Sharp, external member

Professor Hamish Scott     

Professor Hew Strachan

Professor Fiona Williams

(Secretary: Liz Hutchinson)

The membership of the British Academy's Neil Ker Memorial Fund Committee.

Membership

Professor Julia Crick, external member

Professor Richard Gameson, external member

Professor Vincent Gillespie (Chair)

Dr Julian Luxford, external member

Professor Martin Kauffmann, external member

Dr Tessa Webber

(Secretary: Sara Kathrada)

The membership of the British Academy's Stein Arnold Exploration Fund Committee.

Membership

Dr John Curtis (Chair)

Professor Norman Hammond

Dr Georgina Herrmann

Professor Dame Caroline Humphrey

Dr Robert Knox, external member

Professor Nicholas Sims-Williams

(Secretary: Sara Kathrada)

The membership of the British Academy's Stenton Fund Committee.

Membership

Professor Paul Brand (Chair)

Professor John Hudson

Professor David Ibbetson

Dr Neil Jones, external member

Professor Simon Keynes

Dr John Maddicott

Dr Rory Naismith, external member

Professor Nicholas Vincent

Professor Louise Wilkinson, external member

(Secretary: Ken Emond)