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PSA Parliaments June 2020 Newsletter

We hope that, wherever you are, you are keeping safe and well. We have some updates for you, including:

  1. Our Annual Conference: Call for Papers/Blogs
  2. Who’s Watching Parliament: Survey of Parliament Data Users
  3. Join the PSA Parliaments Team: Membership Officer Vacancy
  4. Join our New PSA Parliaments Facebook Group
  5. Recently on the Blog

If you have any notices/messages you would like us to circulate to the group, please let us know.

Best wishes,
Stephen (@Stephen_R_Bates), Louise (@LouiseVThompson), Gavin (@GavinHart10) and Seán (@S_Haughey)

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May 2020 Newsletter

We hope that, wherever you are, you are keeping safe and well. We have some updates for you, including:

  1. Our Annual Conference: Call for Papers/Blogs
  2. Undergraduate Essay Competition: Closing Date Approaching
  3. Changes to the Team: Goodbye to Marc and Hello to Stephen
  4. Recently on the Blog

If you have any notices/messages you would like us to circulate to the group, please let us know.

Best wishes,
Stephen (@Stephen_R_Bates), Louise (@LouiseVThompson), Gavin (@GavinHart10), Seán (@S_Haughey) and, for the last time, Marc (@marcgeddes)

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PSA Parliaments 2020 Conference: Parliaments in 20/20 Vision

The PSA Parliaments 2020 Annual Conference will be held on 12-13 November at the Council House, Birmingham.

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Latest news from the PSA Parliaments Group

Welcome to our latest newsletter!

Dear members,

In this month’s newsletter, we have the following announcements/information:

  1. Panels at PSA Annual Conference
  2. Changes to the Team
  3. ESRC PhD studentship opportunity – Parliament and Education
  4. Essay Competition: Judging Panel Announced
  5. Call for Papers: Parliaments and Security Conference
  6. Ethnography of Parliaments Panel at EASA
  7. Job Alert: Lecturer in the Politics of Gender, Sexuality and Identity
  8. National Assembly for Wales: Academic Fellowship Scheme now open
  9. Hansard Resource
  10. Recently on our blog

If you have any notices/messages you would like us to circulate to the group, please let us know.

Best wishes,
Marc (@marcgeddes), Louise (@LouiseVThompson), Gavin (@GavinHart10) and Seán (@S_Haughey)

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PSA Annual International Conference 2020: Parliamentary Panels

PSA Parliaments will be contributing a great selection of panels at the PSA 2020 conference, serving to highlight the diverse nature of the research taking place across our network. The theme of the event will be ‘reimagining politics’ as the PSA reaches its 70th year. This provides a great opportunity to showcase some cutting edge scholarship on a range of themes that are central to the understanding of parliaments and legislatures as they evolve in response to contemporary challenges. In total, we have seven panels running at the annual conference, which have been scheduled for Monday 6th and Tuesday 7th April. They cover the following topics:

  • Parliamentary Questions: Adversarialism and Constituency Links
  • Perspectives on Transparency
  • Comparing Parliamentary Perspectives in the UK
  • Parliamentary Roles
  • Do MPs care about their publics?
  • Scrutiny and Legislation
  • The Changing Face of Parliament

Full details of the panels can be seen on our website. If you are presenting a paper on one of our panels, or chairing a panel, please make sure that you register for the conference through Ex Ordo by Monday 17th February.

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Essay Competition: Judging Panel Announced

We are very grateful to Professor Robert Hazell for agreeing to chair this year’s essay competition. Alongside him on the panel this year will be Adam Evans (UK Parliament) and Louise Thompson (University of Manchester).

Professor Hazell will kindly lend us his expertise in all things constitutional to bring some important insight to the panel.

If you have been marking parliamentary studies essays over the last few weeks, please consider submitting an entry to our competition. Essays must be no more than 3500 words and can focus on any legislature.  More details can be found here.

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November 2019 newsletter

In this month’s newsletter, we have the following announcements/information:

  1. Ideas for 2020 wanted
  2. Communications Officer vacancy
  3. #Parl19 – Cardiff 2019
  4. Essay Competition 2020 – now open
  5. Recently on our blog

If you have any notices / messages you would like us to circulate to the group, please let us know.

Best wishes,
Marc (@marcgeddes), Louise (@LouiseVThompson) Alex (@A_Meakin) and Seán (@S_Haughey)


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Essay Competition 2020

Launch of the PSA Parliaments essay competition 2020 for undergraduate students.

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#Parl19 Conference recap – Parliaments: Coming of Age?

A recap of the PSA Parliaments annual conference Parliaments: Coming of Age, held at the National Assembly for Wales, Cardiff, on 7-8 November 2019.

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October 2019 newsletter

Image courtesy of Colin via Wikimedia Commons

In this month’s newsletter, we have the following announcements/information:

  1. Ideas for 2020 wanted
  2. New Project: The Scottish Parliament – A Graphic History
  3. Celebrating 40 years of departmental select committees
  4. New data resource – ParlRulesData
  5. Event: Do parliamentary e-petitions matter to MPs?
  6. Call for new PSA Chair
  7. Recently on our blog

If you have any notices / messages you would like us to circulate to the group, please let us know.

Best wishes,
Marc (@marcgeddes), Louise (@LouiseVThompson) Alex (@A_Meakin) and Seán (@S_Haughey)