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December 2017 newsletter

Welcome to the December edition of our newsletter, which includes:

  1. Annual Conference, 17 Nov – huge success!
  2. Feedback and Ideas Wanted
  3. PSA Annual Conference 2018
  4. Second Edition of Parliament and the Law
  5. Recently on the blog

If you have any notices / messages you would like us to circulate to the group, please let us know (including events, new research projects, grants, publications, etc.). Or other ideas for the group and feedback for us, they’re welcome too!

Finally, we also want to wish you all the very best over the festive period – Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. We look forward to welcoming you to our events in 2018 and sending you updates about all the exciting parliamentary stuff that’s inevitably going to happen in the coming 12 months!

Best wishes,
Marc (@marcgeddes), Louise (@LouiseVThompson), Alex (@A_Meakin) and Leanne (@LeanneMarieC)

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Legislature in Uncertain Times – a huge success!

The PSA Parliaments and Study of the Scottish Parliament Group co-hosted their annual conference Legislatures in Uncertain Times on Friday 17 November at Holyrood.

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Constitution Unit invites applicants for Leverhulme Early Career Fellowships

The PSA Parliaments Groups is sharing details of a job opportunity for early career academics at the Constitution Unit, and highlights the call for projects on parliament or parliamentary reform, in the UK or comparatively.

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November 2017 newsletter

Welcome to the November edition of our newsletter, which includes:

  1. PSA Parliaments Annual Conference – Reminder
  2. REF Panels for 2021 – nominations
  3. PSA Annual Conference 2018
  4. Recently on the blog

If you have any notices / messages you would like us to circulate to the group, please let us know (including events, new research projects, grants, publications, etc.). Or other ideas for the group and feedback for us, they’re welcome too!

Best wishes,
Marc (@marcgeddes), Louise (@LouiseVThompson), Alex (@A_Meakin) and Leanne (@LeanneMarieC)

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PSA International Annual Conference 2018

We are delighted to announce our panels for the Political Studies Association 2018  Conference. We have a great line up, with six panels and 24 papers covering everything from enhancing parliamentary democracy to organising and managing parliaments.

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October 2017 Newsletter

Welcome to the October edition of our newsletter, which includes:

  1. Register now for PSA Parliaments conference, 17 November
  2. PSA’s International Annual Conference – final call for papers
  3. Joint call for papers: populist parties in established party systems
  4. Our plans for 2018
  5. Recently on the blog

If you have any notices / messages you would like us to circulate to the group, please let us know (including events, new research projects, grants, publications, etc.). Or other ideas for the group and feedback for us, they’re welcome too!

Best wishes,
Marc (@marcgeddes), Louise (@LouiseVThompson), Alex (@A_Meakin) and Leanne (@LeanneMarieC)

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September 2017 Newsletter

Welcome to the September edition of our newsletter, which includes:

  1. PSA’s International Annual Conference – call for papers
  2. Representation – call for special issues
  3. New EVEL website
  4. News from our members
  5. Recently on the blog

If you have any notices / messages you would like us to circulate to the group, please let us know (including events, new research projects, grants, publications, etc.). Or other ideas for the group and feedback for us, they’re welcome too!

Best wishes,
Marc (@marcgeddes), Louise (@LouiseVThompson), Alex (@A_Meakin) and Leanne (@LeanneMarieC)

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Summer 2017 newsletter

Welcome to the summer edition of our newsletter – and an extra special welcome to all our new members that have accumulated over the past few months. In this month’s newsletter, we’ve got information on the following:

  1. Essay Competition winner
  2. Annual Conference in November
  3. Successful qualitative methods workshop
  4. Scottish Parliament: Commission on Parliamentary Reform – new report
  5. Welsh Assembly: Report on digital engagement published
  6. UCL report on public appointments published
  7. Opportunity – HE consultant for Parliament
  8. Recently on the blog

If you have any notices / messages you would like us to circulate to the group, please let us know (including events, new research projects, grants, publications, etc.). Or other ideas for the group and feedback for us, they’re welcome too!

We’ll be taking a break over August, so expect our next newsletter at the end of September. Hope all our members have a great summer break!

Best wishes,
Marc (@marcgeddes), Louise (@LouiseVThompson), Alex (@A_Meakin) and Leanne (@LeanneMarieC)

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Essay Competition 2017 Winners

We are pleased to announce the winner of our essay competition this year: Tamara McCallum from Leeds (nominated by Cristina Leston-Bandeira), with Callum Allison (nominated by Louise Thompson) as the runner-up. The winning essays were judged anonymously by our expert panel, and the winners will receive their certificates at our conference in autumn.

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Update from Qualitative Methods workshop

The PSA Parliaments Group held a workshop on qualitative methods at the University of Liverpool on Wednesday 19 July. Read on for a report of the day.