We hope that you are keeping safe and well. We have some updates for you, including:
- Final Call for Papers: 2021 PSA Annual Conference, Belfast
- PSA Parliaments Panel on Covid-19
- Job: Research Assistant for IPU’s Global Parliamentary Report
- Recent Publications that have Caught our Eye
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. 2021 PSA Annual Conference, Belfast: Call for Papers
We have extended our Call for Papers for the eight panels we can host until Thursday 8th October.
The 2021 PSA Annual Conference will be held in Belfast with a theme of “Resilience. Expertise. Hope”. Papers can be presented either in person or remotely. Full details of the conference can be found here.
If you would like to present a paper or organise a panel under the auspices of the PSA Parliaments group, then please submit this form for papers or this form for panels to Alexandra and Stephen by Thursday 8th October.
We welcome papers from PhD students through to professors and from both academics and practitioners. We are fully committed to avoiding manels.
2. PSA Parliaments Online Panel on the Impact of Covid-19 on Parliaments
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 so we can send you 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.
3. Job: Research Assistant at the IPU
The Inter-Parliamentary Union wishes to establish a network of students to provide assistance to research activities for their IPU-UNDP Global Parliamentary Report. It is expected that the network will contain up to 5 students from different countries, with a range of language skills, working under the supervision of the Lead Researcher and in cooperation with colleagues from IPU and UNDP.
Full details of the job and how to apply can be found here.
4. Recent Publications that have Caught our Eye
Sylvia Shaw’s book Women, Language and Politics has been published with Cambridge University Press.
Karen Celis and Sarah Childs’ book Feminist Democratic Representation has been published with Oxford University Press.
A new issue of Parliamentary Studies has been published, featuring a special section on party regulation and operation outside the bounds of the country of origin.
If you would like your published research to be featured in this section, please email Stephen with details.