Division profile
Academic remit
The Division advances systematic inquiry into behaviour, institutions, economies, law, education, public authority and collective life.
The Division coordinates disciplinary expertise across its Sections. It supports evidence review, reviewer routing and programme development, but does not operate as a separate legal body or independently confer Fellowship.
Formal units
Sections
SBS · ECO
Economics
The Section studies production, allocation, exchange and welfare across households, firms, markets, governments and international systems.
Open profile→SBS · MBS
Management and Business Studies
The Section examines organisations, enterprise, leadership and markets, including how strategy and operations create and distribute value.
Open profile→SBS · PIR
Politics and International Relations
The Section studies power, political behaviour, institutions, states and relations across and beyond national borders.
Open profile→SBS · LAW
Law and Legal Studies
The Section studies legal rules, institutions, reasoning and practice and their relationship to rights, authority and social order.
Open profile→SBS · SOC
Sociology, Anthropology, Demography and Human Geography
The Section studies populations, cultures, places, institutions, inequality and the organisation and transformation of social life.
Open profile→SBS · PSY
Psychology and Behavioural Sciences
The Section investigates cognition, emotion, development, behaviour and social interaction through basic and applied inquiry.
Open profile→SBS · EDU
Education
The Section studies learning, teaching, curriculum, assessment and educational institutions across the life course and diverse settings.
Open profile→SBS · PPA
Public Policy and Administration
The Section studies how public problems are defined and how institutions design, implement and evaluate collective responses.
Open profile→Fellowship
Classification and review
Applicants select a primary Section within this Division when it best represents the main body of work submitted for assessment. UKAAS may correct an allocation where the evidence is more appropriately reviewed elsewhere.
A secondary classification may record substantial cross-disciplinary practice. It neither creates a second Fellowship nor changes the fee, title or FAAS(UK).