We hope that you are keeping safe and well. We have some updates for you (a little later than normal because of the UCU strikes over pensions, pay and conditions):
- PSA Annual International Conference 2022
- PSA Parliaments Undergraduate Essay Competition 2022
- Urgent Questions with Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey
- Book Launch: Held in contempt: What’s wrong with the House of Commons?
- Book Launch: Accountability, Impeachment, and the Constitution
- PSA Trustee Elections: PSA Parliament’s Member, James Strong, is Standing
- 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 remains open for the 2022 PSA Annual Conference in York and online, 11th-13th April 2022. Full details of the conference and how to register can be found on the PSA22 website.
As detailed below, the PSA Parliaments panels and roundtable are being held on the Monday and Tuesday.
Whether in person or online, we hope to see you there!
2. PSA Parliaments Undergraduate Essay Competition 2022
We are pleased to announce the launch of our 2022 Undergraduate Essay Competition! The winner will be presented with a prize of £100 and a runner-up prize of £50 at our annual conference in November 2022.
The competition is open to all undergraduate students who have submitted a piece of assessed work which contributes to our understanding of parliaments or legislatures.
Full details of the competition can be found here.
3. Urgent Questions with Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey
This month’s interviewee is Prof. Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey, author of the recently published Deliberative Accountability in Parliamentary Committees.
Head over to Urgent Questions to read about Idaho, romance novels and how long it’s been since Cheryl ate a curry
4. Book Launch: Held in contempt: What’s wrong with the House of Commons?
We are delighted to announce that PSA Parliaments will be hosting a book launch of Hannah White’s forthcoming book Held in contempt: What’s wrong with the House of Commons? (Manchester University Press).
The launch will take place virtually on Wednesday 25th May 2022 between 11:00am and 12:30pm BST. The speakers include:
- Hannah White
- Alexandra Meakin
- Baroness Morgan of Cotes
- And another TBC!
Full details of the event, including how to register, can be found here.
5. Book Launch: Accountability, Impeachment, and the Constitution
We are similarly delighted to announce that PSA Parliaments will be co-hosting the book launch of our very own Chris Monaghan’s forthcoming monograph Accountability, Impeachment, and the Constitution (Routledge).
The launch will take place virtually on Wednesday 8th June 2022 at 2pm BST.
Full details of the event, including how to register, can be found here.
6. PSA Trustee Elections: PSA Parliament’s Member, James Strong, is Standing
One of our members, James Strong, is standing for election to become a PSA Trustee.
If you have a vote, please check your inbox for details of how to vote.
7. Recent Publications that have Caught Our Eye
Kristen Heim has published Beyond stereotypes: the evolution of five Southern African legislatures in the budget process in the Journal of Legislative Studies.
Jennifer Piscopo and Susan Franceschet have published Policymaking, Constituency Service, and the Pandemic: How Working Remotely Transformed U.S. State Legislators’ Representative Roles in Representation.
Finally, new issues of Government and Opposition, International Journal of Parliamentary Studies, Journal of Legislative Studies, and Representation have all been recently published.
If you would like your published research to be featured in this section, please email Stephen with details.
8. Recently on the Blog
We published two great blogs in February:
- New visual cues in the UK Parliament by Alex Prior
- Held in contempt: what’s wrong with the House of Commons? by Hannah White
If you have an idea for a blog on some aspect of parliamentary study, please get in touch with our communications officer, Chris.