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Professor Cecilia Wong Receives Academician Award by the Academy of Social Sciences
SED is pleased to annouce that the UK Academy of Social Sciences has conferred the Academician Award to Professor Cecilia Wong.
The Academy of Social Sciences is the voice of the social sciences in the UK for the public benefit. Speaking about the conferment, the Chair of Council, Professor Cary Cooper CBE AcSS, said: "I am delighted that we are able to confer the award on such a significant number of distinguished new Academicians. The social sciences have a vital contribution to make towards some of the big issues facing society today, such as sustainability, crime, communities and individual fulfilment and well-being. Conferment of the award will give confidence that the contributions made by Academicians to knowledge production and transfer are well founded, because that are based on rigorous peer group review of the available evidence."
Professor Wong is the Director of SED's Centre for Urban Policy Studies (CUPS), and her research focuses on quantitative indicators, policy monitoring and policy evaluation in relation to planning, evidence-based policy making, and policy analysis and application in relation to socio-economic change, neighbourhood change, the UK national spatial planning framework, and housing needs and demand.
13 October 2009