Joint University Council (JUC) | |
Type: | Learned society |
Location: | United Kingdom |
Language: | English |
Leader Title: | Chair |
Leader Name: | Dr Ian C. Elliott |
Leader Title2: | Vice-Chair |
Leader Name2: | Dr Janet Melville-Wiseman |
The Joint University Council of Applied Social Sciences (JUC) is the UK learned society for public and social administration.[1] The JUC was founded at a meeting at London School of Economics in 1918.[2] A complete history of the JUC was written by Professor Richard Chapman in 2007.[3]
As a representative body, the JUC is composed of institutional members from across Higher Education. It is constituted of three sub-committees: the JUC Executive Committee, the Public Administration Committee (PAC) and the Social Work Education Committee (SWEC).
The JUC Executive Committee is constituted of the trustees of the learned society. This includes representatives from both PAC and SWEC as well as the JUC Treasurer, JUC Secretary, JUC Chair and JUC Vice-chair.
2014-2017 Professor Joyce Liddle
2017-2021 Professor Samantha Baron
2021–Present Dr Ian C. Elliott
The Public Administration Committee (PAC) represents scholarship in public administration and public management within the UK. The PAC publish two academic journals in association with Sage: Public Policy and Administration[4] and Teaching Public Administration.[5]
As well as publishing two academic journals the PAC provides funding for small research projects and seminars series.[6]
1977-1981 Professor Richard Chapman
1981-1983 Professor Howard Elcock
1984-1986 Professor Chris Bellamy
1996-1998 Professor Rod Rhodes
1999-2002 Professor Andrew Gray
2002-2004 Professor Grant Jordan
2005-2007 Professor Barry O’Toole
2008-2010 Professor Martin Laffin
2011-2013 Professor Joyce Liddle
2014-2016 Professor Kerry Howell
2017–2021 Dr Ian C. Elliott
2021–present Dr Karin Bottom
The Social Work Education Committee (SWEC) represents UK schools of social work at an international level. Previously SWEC have been involved in reviews of social work in England and Scotland. SWEC are routinely consulted by national bodies including regulatory and research councils and government departments on issues surrounding social work education and research. They work closely with a wide range of national and international social work bodies such as Social Work England, the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE), the European Social Work Research Association (ESWRA) and the International Federation of Social Work (IFSW) and the International Association of Schools of Social Work (IASSW).
The JUC may confer the honorary title of Fellow of the JUC on academics within public and social administration who are held in high esteem by their peers and who have made an outstanding contribution to the learned society. They are nominated and the nominations are then subject to peer review. Fellows are entitled to use the letters "FJUC" after their name.
The full list of JUC Fellows are as follows: