We hope that you are keeping safe and well. We have some updates for you, including:
- PSA Parliaments Panel on Covid-19
- PSA Annual Conference update
- Other Events
- Call for Papers
- Recent Publications that have Caught our Eye
- Recently on the Blog
If you have any notices/messages you would like us to circulate to the group, please let us know.
Best wishes
Stephen (@Stephen_R_Bates), Alexandra (@A_Meakin), Seán (@S_Haughey), Gavin (@GavinHart10) and Caroline (@CarolineBha)
1. PSA Parliaments Online Panel on the Impact of Covid-19 on Parliaments
A quick reminder that the first panel of our Online Annual Conference is at 2pm on Wednesday 11th November.We’ll be focusing on how COVID-19 has impacted on parliaments and our speakers are:
- Meg Russell on “The principles and practice of parliamentary functioning post-COVID-19: challenges and opportunities”;
- Philip Norton on “Parliaments and informal space: the unseen impact of crisis”;
- Dalila Maulide on “Inter-parliamentary cooperation in times of pandemics”; and
- Kuffour Nimako Anning on “The past, present and future debates of Ghana’s parliament: making it possible amidst COVID-19”
All panels are free and all are welcome but please register beforehand in order to gain details of how to access the event.
Tickets are selling faster than hot cakes so you’d better hurry, hurry, hurry if you don’t want to miss out!
Full details of the other conference panels can be found on our website.
2. 2021 PSA Annual Conference Update
Thank you to everyone who has submitted paper and panel proposals for our Specialist Group panels at next year’s PSA Conference. We were really impressed with the standard and number of proposals we received, including papers on a diverse range of subjects and legislatures. Our draft panels have been submitted to the PSA and we are currently sending out notifications of acceptance. We will confirm details of panels and dates/times once confirmed by the conference convenors – reminder that the conference will now be taking place entirely online. Thank you again and we look forward to a great selection of panels next year.
3. Other Events
The Constitution Unit are holding a webinar, Constitutional Reform, Then and Now, on Tuesday 3rd November at 18.00.
Speakers include Jack Straw, Professor Francesca Klug OBE, and David Gauke.
More details here.
The Centre for Political Ethnomethodology at the University of Southampton are hosting a talk by Marc Geddes (Edinburgh) about his book, Dramas at Westminster, on Thursday 5th November at 13.00.
More details here.
The first conference event of the Parliaments Buildings Conference is taking place on the 12th and 13th of November.
More details here.
4. Calls for Papers
European Conference of Politics and Gender, hosted by the University of Ljubljana (7-9 July 2021)
A timely section: ‘Parliaments, governments and parties as gendered organisations’, at the bi-annual European Conference of Politics and Gender, warmly welcomes panels and paper submissions.
Further information on the CfP can be found here. The deadline for panel and paper proposals is 8th December 2020.
For any questions about the section, please do get in contact with the section co-chairs, Michal Smrek (Uppsala University, Sweden), Josefina Erikson (Uppsala University, Sweden), or Cherry Miller (Tampere University, Finland).
3rd Annual UK Political Psychology Conference (11-15 Jan 2021)
This year’s annual political psychology conference will take place virtually and will draw on best practice in its use of both synchronous and asynchronous content. This year, we invite abstracts on any of the following:
1.Political attitudes, beliefs and ideology;
2.Political elites and leadership;
3.Conflict and security;
4.Government and governance;
5.Emotions;
6.Populism and the people;
7.Political psychology of inequalities.
8. Methods
The conference will take place over the course of one week (11th-15th January 2021). Successful applicants will be required to provide a pre-recorded presentation; there will then be live roundtable discussions amongst the panellists with opportunities for audience Q&A. This format has been purposefully designed to maximize the accessibility of the conference for potential delegates, whilst allowing for more detailed and informative debate amongst presenters in the live sessions.
Submissions should contain an abstract of no more than 200 words, a brief professional biography of the presenter, and contact details. Deadline for submissions is midday on Friday 27th November.
Submissions should be sent electronically via email to the convenor in charge of your desired section. Please send your submission to either: Dr Raynee Gutting (raynee.gutting@essex.ac.uk – political attitudes); Dr James Weinberg (james.weinberg@sheffield.ac.uk – political elites); Dr Tereza Capelos (T.Capelos@bham.ac.uk – conflict); Dr Ben Seyd (B.J.Seyd@kent.ac.uk – governance); Donatella Bonansinga (d.bonansinga@pgr.bham.ac.uk – emotions);Dr Kesi Mahendran (kesi.mahendran@open.ac.uk – populism) or Dr Ashley Weinberg (a.weinberg@salford.ac.uk – inequalities). If you would like to present on the methods panel, please email Dr Todd Hartman (t.k.hartman@sheffield.ac.uk).
5. Recent Publications that have Caught our Eye
Louise Thompson’s book The end of the small party? Change UK and the challenges of parliamentary politics has been published with Manchester University Press.
A new issue of the Journal of Legislative Studies has been published.
If you would like your published research to be featured in this section, please email Stephen with details.
6. Recently on the Blog
Thanks, once again, for the great contributions made to our blog by group members and from our wider network of scholars and policy-makers. Some of our recent blogs include:
- From anti-terrorism legislation to COVID emergency laws: Can sunset clauses live up to their promise? by Franklin De Vrieze and Sean Molloy
- Braking the law: Is there, and should there be, an executive veto over laws made by parliament? by Paul Evans
- How did parliamentary procedure change while Theresa May was Prime Minister? by Thomas Fleming
If you have an idea for a blog on some aspect of parliamentary study please get in touch with our communications officer, Gavin Hart, or message us on Twitter.