We hope you’re well. We have some updates for you:
- PSA Parliaments Conference 2023: Call for Papers
- PSA Parliaments Book Launch: Henry J. Miller’s A Nation of Petitioners
- PSA Parliaments Annual Conference 2022: Extra Online Panel
- Welcome to Diana Stirbu!
- PSA Parliaments Undergraduate Essay Competition
- Parliamentary Studies Module: Call for Applications
- Congratulations to Lotte Hargrave!
- Other Events: ECPR Gender & Politics Seminar & PSA ECN Workshops
- 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 group, please let us know.
Best wishes
Stephen, Seán, Caroline, Chris, Ruxandra and, for the first time, Diana.
1. PSA Parliaments Conference 2023: Call for Papers
We are very pleased to announce that our annual conference will take place at the LSE and online on Thursday 2nd and Friday 3rd November!
As usual, we will be holding the conference on the Friday and a drinks reception on the Thursday evening. However, in an exciting new development, we will also be holding a working papers workshop for early career researchers during Thursday daytime.
Full details about the conference and workshop, including how to apply and/or volunteer as a workshop discussant, can be found here.
We are very grateful to Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey for helping us to organise the conference and to the Department of Government at LSE for co-sponsoring the event.
2. 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.
3. PSA Parliaments Annual Conference 2022: Extra Online Panel
Our rescheduled panel on Parliaments in Context will take place on Wednesday 24th May at 2pm BST.
We have three great papers. Full details, including how to book your free ticket, can be found here.
4. Welcome to Diana Stirbu!
We are very pleased to announce that Diana Stirbu has become a co-convenor of PSA Parliaments.
Diana is Professor of Public Policy and Governance at the London Metropolitan University and is probably best known for her work on the Welsh Senedd. You can read her Urgent Questions here.
Diana will be replacing Stephen who is stepping down as co-convenor in November after our annual conference.
5. PSA Parliaments Undergraduate Essay
Our undergraduate essay competition is running again this year!
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.
6. Parliamentary Studies Module: Call for Applications
Applications will open next week for Higher Education institutions to deliver the Parliamentary Studies module for academic years 2024/5 – 2029/30.
This will be the third time that the UK Parliament has sought collaborators to teach the Parliamentary Studies module. For this five year cycle we have made provision for 20 universities or other higher education institutions to deliver the Parliamentary Studies module in partnership with Parliament, and those currently delivering the module are welcome to apply again.
Applications will be judged by a panel of staff from the Houses of Parliament and representatives from the Higher Education sector. The deadline for applications is Thursday 6 July 2023. We aim to inform successful institutions by the end of July/early August.
If you’re interested in further information and/or wish to request an application pack, please contact ppoe@parliament.uk
7. Congratulations to Lotte Hargrave!
Congratulations to Lotte Hargrave for winning the PSA’s 2023 McDougall Trust Prize for her dissertation which examines the impact of gender stereotypes on politicians’ behaviour and voter attitudes.
More details can be found here.
8. Other Events: ECPR Gender & Politics Seminar & PSA ECN Workshops
The ECPR Gender & Politics Standing Group are holding a series of online seminars on ‘feminist dialogues on the classics’. The first considers gender and sexuality representation in politics on Tuesday 30th May at 2pm (BST).
Full details can be found here.
The PSA’s Early Career Network are holding two online workshops on knowledge exchange. The first is on May 3rd and considers demonstrating knowledge exchange and impact in grant applications. The second is on June 7th and focuses on developing ethical knowledge exchange and impact.
Full details can be found here and here.
9. Recent Publications that have Caught Our Eye
Temitayo Isaac Odeyemi, Damilola Temitope Olorunshola and Boluwatife Solomon Ajibolad have published Turning public engagement into standard practice: institutionalisation in the work of the South African Parliament in the Journal of Legislative Studies.
Mette Marie Staehr Harder has published Parting with ‘interests of women’: how feminist scholarship on substantive representation could replace ‘women’s interests’ with ‘gender equality interests’ in the European Journal of Politics and Gender.
Jonathan Malloy has published The Paradox of Parliament with the University of Toronto Press.
Mihail Chiru has published Seniority and Ideological Proximity? A Longitudinal Analysis of the Appointment of Party Group Coordinators in the European Parliament in the Journal of Common Market Studies.
Elizabeth Evans and Stefanie Reher have published Gender, disability and political representation: understanding the experiences of disabled women in the European Journal of Politics and Gender.
The Routledge Handbook of Parliamentary Administrations edited by Thomas Christiansen, Elena Griglio and Nicola Lupo has been published.
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 one great blog last month.
- The Parliamentary Battle over Brexit: The Story in Brief by Meg Russell and Lisa James
If you have an idea for a blog on some aspect of parliamentary study, please get in touch with our communications officer, Chris.