Hello, everyone! We are a bit late with the newsletter this month, but all for good reasons! A lot of us will have been busy following the 4th of July General Election and will still be busy with post-election analysis. Our next newsletter will be out on the 2nd of September. Meanwhile, we have lots of news for you this month.
- Our Annual Conference: Save the Date!
- Our Annual Conference: Call for Papers!
- PSA Parliaments Undergraduate Essay Competition: Last call
- 25th Anniversary of the Devolved Legislatures in Scotland and Wales
- General Election Insights
- Recent Publications
- Recently on the Blog
- Overview of Parliaments Map
If you have any notices/messages you would like us to circulate to our group, please let us know.
Best wishes,
Caroline, Diana, Ruxandra, Jack and Lauren
1. Our Annual Conference: Save the Date!
We are very excited to share that we have a date and location for our Annual Conference. The conference will be held 21-22 November 2024 in Cardiff, Wales.
25 years ago, the Senedd Cymru was first created as the National Assembly for Wales as part of the devolution process. The red-brick Pierhead Building of 1897 in Cardiff Bay is now at the doorstep of the modern glass-fronted Senedd building and has served as the Senedd’s visitor and education centre since 2010. We are very grateful to be able to hold our Annual Conference in this setting, especially since we have such fond memories from our 2019 conference at the Senedd.
After positive feedback from last year, we will again organise a workshop for early-career researchers on Thursday, 21 November 2024. Our traditional pre-conference drinks reception will be on Thursday evening. The venues for the workshop and drinks reception will be confirmed soon.
Further details and the call for papers can be found on our website.
2. Our Annual Conference: Call for Papers!
Main conference (22 November) – We invite you to propose papers featuring original research on any parliaments or legislatures around the world. In light of the Senedd’s anniversary, we are keen to receive submissions that focus on the devolved parliaments. We also encourage papers by researchers working in parliaments and collaborations between practitioners and academics.
The deadline for proposing abstracts is 16 September 2024. Please fill in this form. Please note that if accepted, we will ask you to submit a blog post to be published on our blog in the aftermath of the conference.
ECR workshop (21 November) – If you are a PhD student, postdoctoral researcher or an early-career academic not in a permanent position, please consider applying for our pre-conference early-career workshop where you get the opportunity to receive in-depth feedback on a draft paper. We welcome papers on any aspect of parliamentary and legislative studies that you seek to get published. (If you are collaborating with senior colleagues, you should be the main author of the paper.)
The deadline for the workshop proposals is also 16 September 2024, and the application form can be found here. If accepted, we will ask you to share your paper with the other participants and expert discussants two weeks before the event.
If you would like to volunteer to act as a discussant, please let Caroline know. We would be very grateful.
Further details and the call for papers can be found on our website.
We hope to see you in the Welsh capital in November!
3. PSA Parliaments Undergraduate Essay Competition: Last call
The deadline for our undergraduate essay competition is approaching fast. If you are teaching at a UK university and have marked an excellent piece of work by a student, please consider nominating them.
The deadline is 12 July at 5pm BST. You can find all the details here.
4. The 25th Anniversary of the Devolved Legislatures in Scotland and Wales
The Festival of Politics (Monday 19 August to Friday 23 August 2024)
The Scottish Parliament’s Festival of Politics (In partnership with Scotland’s Futures Forum) is happening in August, with a five-day programme of over 30 events, in the home of Scottish politics at Holyrood. More info
25 years of Welsh law-making
To mark the Senedd’s 25th anniversary, Senedd Research has published a special series on 25 years of Welsh law-making. Welsh law-making is still young and has adapted to its changing context, whether initiated from within Wales or externally. The series looks at how the legislative process in the Senedd has changed, the role external bodies and events have played in its evolution and considers the impact of Senedd reforms.
5. General Election Insights
PSA website General Election resources
The PSA has set up a special section on their website to feature resources about the General Election. There is also information about how you can contribute and share your insights. Please see here.
Call for contributions on the PSA Parliaments blog
Over the next few months we are welcoming timely contributions discussing the implications of the General Election for the UK Parliament and the devolved legislatures so please get in touch with our communications officer, Jack.
6. Recent Publications
- Thomas Fleming and Hannah Kelly, Delivering House of Commons Reform: What Works?, Constitution Unit.
- Wang Leung Ting, “You are unmuted: The impact of virtual arrangements on women and old age legislators’ participation during the COVID-19 pandemic”in Parliamentary Affairs
- Francesca Melhuish & Ben Young, “Parliamentary questions to the House of Commons Commission: Accountability and parliamentary administration” in Parliamentary Affairs
- Shan-Jan Sarah Liu & Tsung-Lun Alan Wan, “COVID success? For whom? Examining the political representation of migrants in Taiwan” in Ethnic and Racial Studies
If you would like your published research to be featured in this section, please email Caroline with details.
7. Recently on the Blog
- ‘Petitions and Petitioning in Europe and North America‘ by Henry Miller, which summarises the new edited book of the same title published by OUP.
- ‘Parliaments need to ensure democratic accountability for public debt‘, by Frank de Vrieze.
If you have an idea for a blog on some aspect of parliamentary study, please get in touch with our new communications officer, Jack.
8. Overview of Parliaments Map
We have one new contribution to our Overview of Parliaments Map:
- Overview of the Israeli Knesset by Avital Friedman
For anybody who wishes to cover any of the countries not yet covered in our map, contact our communications officer Jack.