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News

Latest news from the PSA Parliaments Group

Post author By psaparliaments
Post date February 10, 2020

Welcome to our latest newsletter!

Dear members,

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

Panels at PSA Annual Conference
Changes to the Team
ESRC PhD studentship opportunity – Parliament and Education
Essay Competition: Judging Panel Announced
Call for Papers: Parliaments and Security Conference
Ethnography of Parliaments Panel at EASA
Job Alert: Lecturer in the Politics of Gender, Sexuality and Identity
National Assembly for Wales: Academic Fellowship Scheme now open
Hansard Resource
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)

Events News

PSA Annual International Conference 2020: Parliamentary Panels

Post author By psaparliaments
Post date January 30, 2020

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 70^th 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.

News

Essay Competition: Judging Panel Announced

Post author By psaparliaments
Post date January 29, 2020

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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Essay Competition 2020

Post author By psaparliaments
Post date November 19, 2019

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

Tags essay competition

Events News

#Parl19 Conference recap – Parliaments: Coming of Age?

Post author By psaparliaments
Post date November 11, 2019

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.

Tags Annual conference, Making Sense of Legislatures, Recap

Events News

Call for Papers: PSA20

Post author By psaparliaments
Post date September 19, 2019

Call for Papers for PSA Parliaments Panels for the Political Studies Association Annual Conference in 2020: Reimagining Politics: deadline 14 October.

Tags Call for papers, PSA Annual Conference, PSA2020