Prof. NG Mee Kam was elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in 2016. The Academy is a national academy of academics, learned societies and practitioners in the social sciences in the United Kingdom. In 2016, it has conferred the award of Fellow on 84 leading social scientists who have been recognized "after an extensive process of peer review for the excellence and impact of their work through the use of social science for public benefit" (http://www.acss.org.uk/news/eighty-four-leading-social-scientists-conferred-fellows-academy-social-sciences/).