Spanning a range of research and practice areas including climate change adaptation, food inequalities, and ethical issues in global peace and security, the spring cohort of new Fellows are elected for their significant contributions to social science, which highlight the relevance of the social sciences in understanding and addressing the many varied societal challenges facing the UK and the world today.
Professor Ejiogu’s work focuses on understanding how accounting relates to issues of social justice, governance, and inequality.
Some of his research areas include:
- The regulation of social housing
- The link between stigmatization of social housing residents and performance and accountability of housing associations
- Developing organisational capacity to identify and respond to gambling related domestic abuse amongst social housing residents.
- Transparency in the extractive industry
- How accountability and performance measurement in prisons impacts on service delivery and outcomes for inmates
- Human trafficking and modern slavery
- Role of accountants in developing water accountability mechanisms in Sub-Saharan Africa
On his appointment, Professor Amanze Ejiogu said: “I am truly honoured to be elected to the Fellowship of the Academy of Social Sciences. Being elected a Fellow is significantly meaningful to me as my work has sought to demonstrate the vital role of accounting in making social inequalities and injustices visible and in shaping solutions to them. I’m especially grateful to the colleagues, partners and communities who have shaped this work. Accounting is a powerful social science lens that can be mobilised both to understand how governance fails people and to advance fairness, accountability and social justice.
“Being part of the Academy’s Fellowship gives me a platform to deepen collaboration with leading social scientists, engage with policymakers, and continue advocating for fairer, more accountable systems for those most affected by inequality and injustice – whether tenants in social housing, victims of modern slavery, or communities lacking access to basic resources.”
Will Hutton FAcSS, President of the Academy, said: “I’m delighted to welcome these leading social scientists to the Academy’s Fellowship this spring. Their substantial contributions have furthered knowledge and our understanding in tackling a wide range of societal challenges including working with Indigenous communities in the Arctic to better understand climate risk, memory retrieval processes in legal contexts, social inequalities, economic policy and tackling hate crime. We look forward to working with them to further promote the important role the social sciences play in our daily lives.”
The Academy’s Fellowship comprises 1,700 leading social scientists from academia, the public, private and third sectors. Fellows’ expertise covers the breadth of the social sciences, and their practice and research helps to understand and address some of the major challenges facing communities, society, places and economies. All Academy Fellows are elected for their excellence in their fields and their substantial contributions to social science for public benefit.
