David Owen, Professor of Social and Political Philosophy at the University of Southampton, has been conferred the award of Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.
Professor Owen, who has been at Southampton since 1995, was elected for his outstanding contribution in applying his knowledge and expertise in social science to education, research and society.
“This year has been challenging in many ways but also rewarding,” said Professor Owen. “To be SSS Visiting Professor at the Institute of Advanced Studies in Princeton this semester was already a great honour and to be elected a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences during this period adds icing to the cake.
“That it is election by one’s peers makes it particularly special,” Professor Owen continued. “No scholar is an island and this would not have happened without the collegial support and intellectual engagement of my academic colleagues, and my students (past and present), in the School of Economic, Social and Political Sciences at Southampton as well as across the University and around the world over the past twenty-five years, and I am grateful to them all for the myriad ways in which they have helped me to think more deeply and more clearly in my research.
“But I also owe another debt,” he emphasised. “If my years at Southampton have taught me anything it is that academic staff only get to stand in the spotlight taking the applause because their achievements are enabled by the work of all the administrative staff in the Faculty Office, the Research Office, the Student Office, and elsewhere, without whose backstage labours the stage would be in darkness and the theatre empty.”
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