We hope that you are keeping safe and well. We have some updates for you in our last newsletter of the academic year:
- PSA Parliaments Annual Conference 2022
- PSA Parliaments Undergraduate Essay Competition 2022
- Urgent Questions with Mark Shephard
- Book Launch: Accountability, Impeachment, and the Constitution
- Report Launch: Public Attitudes to Institutional Reform in Northern Ireland
- Petition against Job Losses at De Montford University
- Jobs at the University of Birmingham
- PSA Diverse Voices Scholarships 2022/23
- New Newsletter from IPSA’s Research Committee of Legislative Specialists
- Recent Publications that have Caught Our Eye
- Recently on the Blog
If you have any notices/messages you would like us to circulate to our prizewinning group, please let us know.
We hope you have a lovely summer. See you in September.
1. PSA Parliaments Annual Conference 2022
We can’t remember if we’ve already mentioned it but PSA Parliaments won Specialist Group of the Year at the PSA awards ceremony!
Our Annual Conference will be held at The Exchange in Birmingham and online on 3rd-4th November 2022.
The theme of the conference is What Next?
Full details of the conference, including how to submit proposals, can be found here.
We are very much excited to be meeting up in person after two years of online conferences and we hope to see as many of you there as possible!
2. PSA Parliaments Undergraduate Essay Competition 2022
Our 2022 Undergraduate Essay Competition is still open for entrants until Monday 6th June. 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 Mark Shephard
This month’s interviewee is Dr Mark Shephard, Deputy Editor of Journal of Legislative Studies and Joint Chair of the Study of Scottish Parliament Group.
Head over to Urgent Questions to read about Houston, Kate Bush and the Kate Bush of Parliamentary Studies, and Prawns!
4. Book Launch: Accountability, Impeachment, and the Constitution
We are delighted to announce that PSA Parliaments will be co-hosting the book launch of 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. The speakers are:
- Chris Monaghan (University of Worcester)
- Matthew Flinders (University of Sheffield)
- Alison Young (University of Cambridge)
Full details of the event, including how to register, can be found here.
5. Report Launch: Public Attitudes to Institutional Reform in Northern Ireland
Sean Haughey and Jamie Bow will be launching their report “Public Attitudes to Institutional Reform in Northern Ireland: Evidence from a Deliberative Forum” in Belfast on Thursday 9th June 2022 at 11am BST.
Full details of the event, including how to register, can be found here.
6. Petition against Job Losses at De Montford University
58 members of staff at De Montford University, including those based in the Local Governance Research Centre, are facing redundancy.
Please consider signing the petition against the job losses here.
7. Jobs at the University of Birmingham
The Department of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Birmingham are looking to make four appointments at either Assistant Professor or Associate Professor level with one of the sub-disciplinary areas mentioned in the advert being ‘Democracy, Representation and Accountability’.
Further details of the jobs can be found here and here.
8. PSA Diverse Voices Scholarships 2022/23
The PSA has recently launched a new initiative to support black and minority ethnic scholars currently undertaking PhD study in politics and international relations and are looking to award three Diverse Voices Scholarships in 2022 to students who meet both the following criteria:
- A PhD student (in their second or final year in 2022/23 academic year) affiliated to a UK Higher Education Institution; and,
- Those self-identified as Black British, Asian British, or minority ethnic UK permanent residents.
Full details of the scholarships, including how to apply, can be found here.
9. New Newsletter for the Research Committee of Legislative Specialists
Our good friends at the International Political Science Association’s Research Committee of Legislative Specialists have launched the first of their re-vamped newsletters.
You can read the newsletter here and you can join RCLS for free and receive future newsletters here.
10. Recent Publications that have Caught Our Eye
Emmeline Ledgerwood has published ‘Armed with the necessary background of knowledge’: embedding science scrutiny mechanisms in the UK Parliament in the British Journal for the History of Science.
Caroline Bhattacharya has published Restrictive rules of speechmaking as a tool to maintain party unity: The case of oppressed political conflict in German parliament debates on the euro crisis in Party Politics.
Patrícia Calca has published a monograph Executive-Legislative Relations in Parliamentary Systems Policy-Making and Legislative Processes with Palgrave Macmillan.
The Inter-Parliamentary Union have published their third Global Parliamentary Report which examines public engagement in the work of parliament.
And, finally, a new issue of Legislative Studies Quarterly has been published.
If you would like your published research to be featured in this section, please email Stephen with details.
11. Recently on the Blog
We published one great blog this month:
If you have an idea for a blog on some aspect of parliamentary study, please get in touch with our communications officer, Chris.