Hello, everyone, happy beginning of the academic year! Exciting times for us at the PSA Parliaments group as we are finalising arrangements for our Annual Conference in November. We have, as per usual, lots of news for you this month.
- Registration is now open for our PSA Parliaments Annual Conference
- PSA Annual Conference: Call for papers closing soon
- Opportunity: Parliament for Researchers session with the House of Lords
- Calls for papers
- Events
- Recent Publications and Resources
- 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. Registration is now open for our PSA Parliaments Annual Conference
We have now opened the registration for our PSA Parliaments Annual Conference, which will take place between 21and 22 of November 2024.
We are extremely grateful to the Welsh Parliament | Senedd Cymru, who are hosting and co-sponsoring our full day Conference on Friday 22 November at the iconic Pierhead Building, and have also kindly provided the Senedd Foyer for our annual Drinks Reception on Thursday 21 November in the evening. We are also very grateful to Cardiff University and WISERD for hosting our Early Career Researchers Workshop at Sbark|Spark – Cardiff University’s state of the art Social Science Research Park.
Registration
You can now register here until 11 November: Registration form
We are very excited that the Senedd will host our annual conference on 21-22 November in Cardiff.
Timetable
Thursday, 21 November 2024
- Noon–4 pm: Early-career workshop (Activity room, sbark|spark)
- 6–7.30 pm: Drinks reception in the Foyer of the Senedd – with a keynote address by the Deputy Presiding Officer David Rees MS
- 7.45 pm: Informal, self-sponsored dinner (restaurant TBC)
Friday, 22 November 2024
- 9 am–3.30 pm: Conference in the Pierhead Building
- 4–4.30 pm: Tour of the Senedd
More details, updates and the full conference programme, please visit our website.
2. PSA Annual Conference: Call for papers closing soon
The 75th PSA Annual Conference, “What Next?”, convened by the University of Birmingham and Aston University, will take place from 14-16 April 2025. Abstracts should be submitted to the Ex-Ordo website by 18 October. Detailed instructions can be found here.
If you would like to present in one of our panels, please select “Parliaments” in the ‘Topics’ section, when submitting your abstract.
For our PSA Parliaments panels, we are open to papers on any aspect of parliamentary and legislative studies. We particularly encourage papers on the UK Parliament, the 2024 General Election as a critical juncture for the UK Parliament, 25 years of devolved parliaments, comparative parliamentary studies, representation, scrutiny and accountability.
More information can be found on our website.
3. Opportunity: Parliament for Researchers sessions with the House of Lords
Two new Parliament for Researchers training sessions, in collaboration with Members of the House of Lords, will take place in October 2024. Every session will include an introduction to engaging with Parliament for researchers of all academic backgrounds, and a chance to hear from a Member of the House of Lords on the value of academic research in Parliament. Each session will also explore a specific theme related to the participating member’s expertise and may be of particular interest to researchers working in related disciplines.
These training events are suitable for early career researchers, PhD students, researchers who are new to engaging with the UK Parliament as well as those who would benefit from a refresher.
Register for the next upcoming session:
- Parliament for Researchers with Baroness Young of Old Scone (health) – Tuesday 22 October, 13:00-14:00
Details for future sessions will be shared here.
4. Calls for papers
IPSA Annual Conference 2025, Seoul, South Korea
The Call for Papers for the 28th IPSA World Congress of Political Science, to be held in Seoul, South Korea from 12-16 July 2025, is now open! Paper and closed panel proposals on any political science-related subject are welcome.
Please note the Research Committee Track on Legislative Specialist (RC08), which might be highly relevant for parliamentary scholars. View all Tracks Open to Submissions.
Paper and Closed Panel Submission Deadline: 5 November 2024
Global Political Marketing and Management Conference 5-7 August 2025
The 2025 conference will be the first event for the Global Political Marketing and Political Management network and will be held at the University of Dundee – see the conference website: The call for paper/presentation proposals and registrations are now open. Contributions are welcome from academics and practitioners from any discipline, organisation and role as long as it is relevant to Political Marketing and Political Management, including discussion of the parliamentary workplace including MPs staff and HR as well as well being, so will be of interest to your members.
Please send your proposal to gpmmnetwork@dundee.ac.uk by 1 December to be in the first round of those considered for the conference.
5. Events
Please note the following UCL Constitution Unit events:
- ‘How to be an effective select committee chair’ (17 October 2024, 1–2:15pm): https://www.ucl.ac.uk/constitution-unit/events/2024/oct/how-be-effective-select-committee-chair
- ‘How to be an effective opposition’ (4 November 2024, 1–2:15pm): https://www.ucl.ac.uk/constitution-unit/events/2024/nov/how-be-effective-opposition
6. Recent Publications and Resources
Publications
- Marc Geddes & Stephen Holden Bates wrote a blog for the Hansard Society: “Select committee chair elections: what do the results tell us about the new Parliament?”
- Nicole Nisbett, Viktoria Spaiser, Cristina Leston-Bandeira & Daniel Valdenegro, “Climate action or delay: the dynamics of competing narratives in the UK political sphere and the influence of climate protest” in Climate Policy
- Michael Grahn & Theodor Thisell, “Are minorities in politics held to a higher standard? Experimental & observational evidence from candidate selection” in Journal of European Public Policy
- Eduardo Alemán, Tiffany D. Barnes, Juan Pablo Micozzi, Sebastián Vallejo Vera, “Gender, institutions, and legislative speech” in Comparative Politics
- Markus Kollberg, “The challenger advantage – how challenger parties disrupt mainstream party dominance in the European Parliament” in Journal of European Public Policy
- Zeljko Poljak (2024). Let’s talk about something else: how cabinet members divert issue attention in answers to parliamentary questions in The Journal of Legislative Studies
Open access book
- Robert Hazell and Timothy Foot, Executive Power: The Prerogative, Past, Present and Future, Hart Publishing, 2022
If you would like your published research to be featured in this section, please email Caroline with details.
7. On the Blog
- ‘The real cost of MPs’ security to constituency representation’ by Neil Matthews and Sean Haughey
If you have an idea for a blog on some aspect of parliamentary study, please get in touch with our communications officer Jack.
8. Overview of Parliaments Map
We do not have any new contributions for our Overview of Parliaments Map this month but we are really looking forward for more. Our last entry was:
- 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.