Academy for the Mathematical Sciences

The Academy for the Mathematical Sciences (AcadMathSci) provides an authoritative, persuasive, and influential voice for the whole of the mathematical sciences. It brings together academia, education, business, industry, and government from across all four nations, providing crucial connectivity for harnessing the power of the discipline. Through expert-led policy development and broad access to mathematical expertise, and with sufficient resources, the Academy will be a critical, high-impact delivery mechanism to address essential national priorities. It will support the pipeline of people, knowledge, and skills that is vital for economic growth and societal wellbeing.

With convening power, and the mandate of a community-led initiative, AcadMathSci works closely with the learned societies, other organisations, and people in the community who develop, teach, research, communicate, and use mathematics and the mathematical sciences: it benefits from the wholehearted backing of the Council for the Mathematical Sciences and its five constituent learned societies and has gained recognition within government. The Academy is now an institutional member of the Scottish Government’s Cross-Party Group on Science and Technology.

The Academy’s focus includes:

  • Teaching and education at all levels and stages
  • Excellence in foundational and boundary-breaking research
  • Implementation of mathematics in practice, driving innovation and technological advances

The Academy has begun its work:

  • Bringing together individuals from across the community to shape the vision and drive forward the Academy project
  • Bringing communities together to engage with and influence government and decision-makers Strengthening and nurturing the people pipeline
  • Making the economic case for the value of investment in the mathematical sciences
  • Equipping decision makers with the foundational knowledge that they need to make informed decisions
  • Developing a response to Department for Education’s Curriculum and Assessment Review chaired by Professor Becky Francis CBE

We are moving forward on the creation of a Fellowship, which will reflect the excellence to be found across the full breadth of the mathematical sciences community: the criteria and traits of potential Fellows has been explored and stress-tested through a series of pen portraits and mock panels. Election to the Fellowship will come with a commitment to contribute to the work of the Academy, catalysing a much greater impact of mathematical expertise on policy and civil society.

Call for Selectors

Academy for the Mathematical Sciences will invite applications and nominations for its first cohort of Fellows — a major milestone in the development of the Academy. A crucial step on that journey is the appointment of a group of selectors who will be jointly responsible for the selection of these inaugural Fellows.

We would therefore like to share with you that their Call for Selectors is now open. They are seeking expressions of interest from distinguished mathematical scientists — including educators, researchers, scholars, and those applying the mathematical sciences in business, industry, or government — to serve as selectors. They aim to appoint a diverse group of experienced individuals from across the full breadth of the mathematical sciences and from all four nations of the UK. Together, they will be responsible for selecting the Academy’s founding cohort of Fellows.

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