Nicholas Fyfe

Professor Fyfe, Dean of Dundee’s School of Social Sciences, is among 51 fellows elected in this year’s cohort following a robust review by peers.

Professor Fyfe’s career has seen him carry out research ranging from improving police-community engagement and addressing the challenges of investigating organised crime, to understanding the impacts and implications of police reform following the establishment of Police Scotland.

“I am delighted and honoured to be made a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences,” said Professor Fyfe.

“It is great to receive this recognition from your peers and to join a diverse and distinguished community united by a shared vision of the importance of the social sciences.

“In addition to recognition of past achievements, being a member of the Academy provides a platform to champion the public value of social science and its role in helping us to better understand a range of global challenges, from the climate emergency to issues of social inequality, health and security.

“The university’s vision of transforming lives by creating, sharing and applying knowledge has always been central to my own idea of what being an academic entails, so I have found Dundee to be enormously supportive of my ambitions to use research to help inform improvements in the policy and practice of policing, locally and globally.”