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 Meg Russell
- Book Launch: Deliberative Accountability in Parliamentary Committees
- Book Launch: Accountability, Impeachment, and the Constitution
- New Overview of Mexico’s Congress of the Union
- Call for Applications: Parliamentary Academic Fellowship Scheme
- EUGenDem virtual workshop: Gender and Leadership in the European Parliament at Midterm
- 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 is open for the 2022 PSA Annual Conference being held in York and digitally in April 2022. Full details of the conference and how to register can be found on the PSA22 website.
Unfortunately, at the time of writing, the timetable for the conference has not been released. We will send details of timings for our five panels and roundtable once they are available.
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 Meg Russell
This month’s interviewee is the Director of the Constitution Unit, Prof. Meg Russell.
Head over to Urgent Questions to read about Turin, Camden Market, the Thin White Duke, and roofing!
4. 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.
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, will be announced soon so, in the meantime, please save the date.
6. New Overview of Mexico’s Congress of the Union
Many thanks to Emmanuel Sanchez for writing our latest Overview on the Mexican Legislature.
If you would like to write an overview of a parliament or legislature not yet covered on our maps, then please contact Chris.
7. Call for Applications: Parliamentary Academic Fellowship Scheme
The Parliamentary Academic Fellowship Scheme gives university-based researchers and staff working in knowledge exchange the opportunity to participate in a fellowship project with an office in UK Parliament. Each fellowship project in the Directed Call is proposed by a team at Parliament as a project on which academic input is needed.
There are 12 projects open for applications. You can read about the Call, including details on eligibility, funding, key dates, and the application process, here.
8. EUGenDem virtual workshop: Gender and Leadership in the European Parliament at Midterm
EUGenDem are holding a workshop to celebrate International Women’s Day on March 11th 2022 at 11:00-12:30 EET (10:00-11:30 CET).
The workshop draws together the findings of a new book edited by Henriette Müller (NYU Abu Dhabi) and Ingeborg Tömmel (University of Osnabrück): Women and Leadership in the European Union, published with Oxford University Press (2022).
Full details of the workshop can be found here.
9. Recent Publications that have Caught Our Eye
Ruxandra Serban has published The practice of accountability in questioning prime ministers: Comparative evidence from Australia, Canada, Ireland, and the United Kingdom in the British Journal of Politics & International Relations.
Lotte Hargrave and Jack Blumenau have published No Longer Conforming to Stereotypes: Gender, Political Style and Parliamentary Debate in the UK? in the British Journal of Political Science.
David Judge has published ‘Would I Lie to You?’: Boris Johnson and Lying in the House of Commons in Political Quarterly.
If you would like your published research to be featured in this section, please email Stephen with details.
10. Recently on the Blog
We published two great blogs in February:
- The Speaker of the Lok Sabha: Performing and Consuming ‘Neutrality’ in the Indian Parliament by Mouli Banerjee
- A case of innovative parliamentary oversight? Faroese and Greenlandic MPs in the Danish Parliament by Mette Marie Staehr Harder and Hallbera West
If you have an idea for a blog on some aspect of parliamentary study, please get in touch with our communications officer, Chris.