Meeting

8th ACSS Plenary- January 2022

Last updated: 11 November 2022

Agenda

Welcome and introductions

Declaration of interests

Actions from the last meeting

Chairs update

Secretariat update

ACSS working group updates

Assurance
Kitchen Life 2
Climate Change and Consumer Behaviour
Wider Consumer Interests

ACSS support to Economic Analysis

Update from Science Council Chair

Analytics Unit update

New work programmes in Analytics Unit

Behavioural trials

Wider consumer interests

The Emerging FSA Strategy

Social Science Coverage of FSA Strategy themes

AOB

Minutes

Summary

The 8th Open Meeting of the Advisory Committee for Social Sciences (ACSS) included an update from the Secretariat on ACSS recruitment and the SAC triennial review. Further updates were given from the ACSS:

Working group chairs updated on recent activity of current groups.
The FSA chief economist, Nick Daniel, presented a proposition paper for a new working group to support economic analysis. The committee felt this was a good idea, but requested TORs be carefully drafted to ensure clear parameters and limit scope creep.
Professor Sandy Thomas, Science Council Chair gave an update on recent Science Council activity.
Michelle Patel and Tim Johnston provided an update on the work of the Analytics Unit. Ely Mirzahosseinkhan and Phil Jones provided an update on new work programmes; Wider consumer interests and behaviour trials.
Ben Haden and Sam Faulkner provided an update on the emerging FSA strategy which will be published in March 2022.
The secretariat presented initial assessment of how well key strategy themes were covered by a) FSA social science projects and b) ACSS expertise.