Happy New Year! We hope that you are keeping safe and well. We have some updates for you in this shorter than usual newsletter:
- PSA Annual International Conference 2022
- Book Launch: Deliberative Accountability in Parliamentary Committees
- Parliamentary Engagement Opportunities for Researchers
- Membership & Funding of PSA Parliaments
- PSA Parliaments Working Papers Series
- 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.
1. PSA Annual International Conference 2022
Registration has opened for the 2022 PSA Annual Conference being held in York and digitally in April 2022 (early bird prices end on 24 January 2022). Full details of the conference and how to register can be found on the PSA22 website.
As announced previously, we are running five panels, on the below themes (the full list of papers and panels can be found on our website):
- Parliamentary powers, prerogatives, and public engagement
- How MPs use old and new media and how old and new media affects MPs
- How to be a parliamentarian: how do Members participate?
- Comparative and inter-parliamentary analysis
- How to be a parliamentarian? Representation and roles
We will also be hosting a round-table event Exploring Parliament: Looking to the Future. The line-up for the roundtable has now been confirmed and promises to provide a fantastic conversation:
- Dr Farrah Bhatti (Principal Clerk of Select Committees, House of Commons)
- Simon Burton (Clerk of the Parliaments, House of Lords)
- Professor Sarah Childs (University of Edinburgh)
- Jack Sheldon (Cambridge University)
Whether in person or online, we hope to see you there!
2. Book Launch: Deliberative Accountability in Parliamentary Committees
We are delighted to announce that PSA Parliaments will be co-hosting the book launch of Cheryl Schonhardt Bailey’s forthcoming monograph Deliberative Accountability in Parliamentary Committees (Oxford University Press).
The launch will take place virtually on Wednesday 9th March 2022 between 3:00pm and 4:30pm GMT.
Full details of the event, including how to register, can be found here.
3. Parliamentary Engagement Opportunities for Researchers
Did you know you can subscribe to UK Parliament’s Knowledge Exchange Unit weekly round up to stay up to date with opportunities for researchers and experts to engage with the UK Parliament?
Please see here for details about how to receive information about calls for evidence from parliamentary select committees, academic fellowship opportunities, requests for expertise and more.
4. Membership & Funding of PSA Parliaments
Did you know that PSA Parliaments receive funding from the PSA based on our number of members?
So, if you are a member of the PSA but not yet an official member of PSA Parliaments, please sign up here so that we can maximise our funding and support the sub-discipline to an even greater extent.
5. PSA Parliaments Working Papers Series
As announced last month, we are now accepting expressions of interest to contribute to our working paper series, which publishes working papers across the sub-discipline of parliamentary and legislative studies.
You can read our first two working papers here and here.
If you are interested in publishing a working paper, please consult our submission guidelines.
6. Recent Publications that have Caught Our Eye
Siim Trumm and Andrew Barclay have published an article in Political Studies called Parliamentary Representation: Should MPs Prioritise Their Own Views or Those of Their Voters?
David Froomkin and Ian Shaprio have published an article in Political Studies called The New Authoritarianism in Public Choice.
Peter Allen has an article in Politics & Gender called Experience, Knowledge, and Political Representation.
And, finally, a new issue of The International Journal of Parliamentary Studies has also been published.
If you would like your published research to be featured in this section, please email Stephen with details.
7. Recently on the Blog
Our blog took a break during December while we were making mince pies and getting boosted. We’ll be back in January!
If you have an idea for a blog on some aspect of parliamentary study, please get in touch with our communications officer, Chris