Academy of Social Sciences in Australia

There are three other learned Academies in Australia, the Australian Academy of the Humanities (AAH), Australian Academy of Science (AAS) and Australian Academy of the Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE). The four Academies cooperate through the Australian Council of Learned Academies (ACoLA, formerly known as the National Academies Forum).

Australian Council of Learned Academies (ACoLA)

The Council provides a basis for cooperative activities by the four Academies and a common point of access to the Academies for outside organisations and individuals. It promotes a unified national vision, helping to overcome the difficulties that have often separated science, technology and engineering from the social sciences and the humanities.

Australian Academy of the Humanities (AAH)

The AAH aims to advance knowledge of, and the pursuit of excellence in, the Humanities. The general disciplinary areas of the Academy include: Archaeology; Asian Studies; Classical Studies; English; European Languages and Cultures; History; Linguistics; Philosophy, Religion and the History of Ideas; Cultural and Communication Studies; The Arts.

Australian Academy of Science (AAS)

The AAS was founded in 1954 by Australian Fellows of the Royal Society of London with the distinguished physicist Sir Mark Oliphant as founding President. It was granted a Royal Charter establishing the Academy as an independent body but with government endorsement. The Academy's Constitution was modelled on that of the Royal Society of London. It receives government grants towards its activities but has no statutory obligation to government.

Australian Academy of the Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE)

ATSE was formally inaugurated as the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences in Melbourne in February 1976. The concept of an applied sciences academy had its origins in the late 1960's when the Australian Industrial Research Group (AIRG), an informal association of directors and managers of industrial research and development laboratories, appointed a small committee to study the proposal for such a body put forward by the late Dr W A S Butement the then recently retired Chief Defence Scientist.