We hope you’re well. We have some updates for you:
- PSA Annual Conference 2023 in Liverpool & Online
- PSA Parliaments Annual Conference 2022: Extra Online Panel
- PSA Parliaments Undergraduate Essay Competition Launch!
- Urgent Questions with David Parker
- PSA Parliaments Book Launch: Henry J. Miller’s A Nation of Petitioners
- PSA Trustees Wanted!
- Job: British Politics Lecturer, University of Leeds
- Other Events: Book Launch of The Parliamentary Battle Over Brexit
- Other Events: 100 more by 2030! How to Create a More Gender-balanced Democracy
- Other Events: Austrian Day of Parliamentary Research
- 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.
Best wishes
Stephen, Seán, Caroline, Chris and Ruxandra.
1. PSA Annual Conference 2023 in Liverpool & Online
Registration has opened for the 2023 PSA Annual Conference being held in Liverpool and virtually in April 2023. Early bird registration ends on 4 February 2023, and accepted paper-givers must register by then to guarantee their place. Full details of the conference and how to register can be found on the PSA23 website.
PSA Parliaments are running four panels on the Monday and Tuesday, as can be seen from the conference programme here.
The PSA offers support to UK based PhD students and early career researchers as well as scholars from the Global South. See the website for more information.
Whether in person or online, we hope to see you there!
2. PSA Parliaments Annual Conference 2022: Extra Online Panel
Due to the on-going UCU industrial action, we postponed our online panel Parliaments & Parliamentarians in Context on Wednesday 15th February 2023.
We will rearrange the panel once it is clear what is happening with the industrial action (and/or employers have given staff in UK higher education a decent pay rise, restored lost pension benefits and addressed casualisation, workload and the gender, disability and ethnicity pay gaps).
Details of the panel can be found here.
3. PSA Parliaments Undergraduate Essay Competition Launch!
We are very pleased to announce the launch of our 2023 undergraduate essay competition!
Many of you have probably been busy marking over the last few weeks. If one of your undergraduate students has produced an exceptional piece of work, then please consider submitting it on their behalf (no self-nominations allowed).
Every year we want to reward the best assignments written by UK-based undergraduate students on any aspect of parliamentary and legislative studies. The entries which display the most originality, analytical rigour and significant contributions to the field will be awarded a prize of £100 for the winner and £50 for the runner-up. The closing date is 12th June 2023.
Full details of the competition, including how to submit nominations, can be found here. For any questions, please get in touch with Caroline.
4. Urgent Questions with David Parker
This month’s interviewee is Prof. David Parker (Montana State University)!
Head over to Urgent Questions to read about soaking and poking, Red Sox, Star Trek and lots, lots more!
5. PSA Parliaments Book Launch: Henry J. Miller’s A Nation of Petitioners
We are delighted to announce that PSA Parliaments will be hosting a book launch for Henry J. Miller’s new book, A Nation of Petitioners: Petitions and Petitioning in the United Kingdom, 1780-1918 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023).
The event will take place via Zoom on Wednesday 3rd May at 2pm BST.
Full details, including how to book your free ticket, can be found here.
The book launch is part of our Online Brown Bag Seminar Series. If you have an article or book that has been accepted for publication and you would like to present it as part of our series, then please get in contact with Stephen.
6. PSA Trustees Wanted!
The PSA are currently calling for nominations from their membership for three trustees to ensure the PSA continues its journey to excellence, sustainability, diversity, and growth.
These positions are open to all Academic Members and the PSA would very much welcome nominations from women and scholars from groups generally under-represented in the discipline.
The deadline for nominations closes on Wednesday 8th March.
You can find out more about governance of the PSA and the role of the trustees here, and there is information about how to apply here.
7. Job: British Politics Lecturer, University of Leeds
The University of Leeds are advertising for a Lecturer in British Politics (Grade 8). More details can be found here.
8. Other Events: Book Launch of The Parliamentary Battle Over Brexit
The Constitution Unit at UCL are holding an online book launch for Meg Russelland Lisa James’s new book The Parliamentary Battle Over Brexit (OUP) on Thursday 23rd March 2023. Other speakers include David Gauke, Joanna Cherry and Robert Saunders.
More details, including how to book your free ticket, can be found here.
9. Other Events: 100 more by 2030! How to Create a More Gender-balanced Democracy
The Mile End Institute at Queen Mary University of London are holding an event on how to create a more gender-balanced democracy on Thursday 23rd March 2023. Speakers include Frances Scott and Rainbow Murray.
The event is on later than the book launch above so you can go to both!
More details, including how to book your free ticket, can be found here.
10. Other Events: Austrian Day of Parliamentary Research
The Legal, Legislative and Research Services (RLW) of the Austrian Parliamentary Administration, in cooperation with the International Journal of Parliamentary Studies, is holding the first “Austrian Day of Parliamentary Research” on 26th June 2023.
This one-day conference in the premises of the Austrian Parliament will bring together scholars from various disciplines to discuss current developments in parliamentary research, as well as their reception in and potential contribution to parliamentary practice.
More details, including how to submit a paper proposal, can be found here.
11. Recent Publications that have Caught Our Eye
Silje Hermansen and Andreja Pegan have published Blurred lines between electoral and parliamentary representation: The use of constituency staff among Members of the European Parliament in European Union Politics.
The Hansard Society has published a new working paper Proposals for a New System for Delegated Legislation.
Matthew Smith and Jack Newman have published MPS, Outside Interests, and Corporate Boards: Too Busy to Serve? in Parliamentary Affairs.
Erica Rayment and Elizabeth McCallion have published Contexts and Constraints: The Substantive Representation of Women in the Canadian House of Commons and Senate in Representation.
Punam Yadav has published Do political quotas work? Gender quotas and women’s political participation in Nepal in the European Journal of Politics and Gender.
If you would like your published research to be featured in this section, please email Stephen with details.
12. Recently on the Blog
We published one blog last month:
- Love in the Legislature: From Proposal to “Aye Do” by Charlie Feldman
If you have an idea for a blog on some aspect of parliamentary study, please get in touch with our communications officer, Chris.