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PSA Awards 2009 POLITICAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION AWARDS 2009 24 NOVEMBER 2009 Institute of Directors, 116 Pall Mall, London SW1Y 5ED Welcome I am delighted to be able to welcome you to the 2009 Political Studies Association Awards Ceremony. The Political Studies Association is the main association in the UK responsible for developing and promoting political studies. Its growing membership now numbers over 1700 and there has been a parallel increase in the range of its publications, activities and specialist groups. Next year will see the Association’s sixtieth anniversary, to be celebrated in a variety of ways, including special publications and events. As part of these celebrations, in 2010 the Association will launch a new magazine publication, Political Insight, to present political research in an accessible manner to a broader audience. This is the eighth Awards Ceremony to be held by the Association. Each year the Awards Ceremony provides an opportunity to recognise those academics, journalists and politicians who have made an exceptional contribution to public political life either over the preceding year, or over the duration of their careers. This last year has presented unusually demanding challenges, most strikingly in relation to the economic crisis and then the crisis of public confidence in parliament. For many of the award categories the jury had to decide between a large number of nominations. However particular individuals stood out in terms of fulfilling the awards criteria and they are our winners today. As ever thanks are due to all those who have helped to make the Awards Ceremony possible. Thanks go to our jurors and to Professor Lord Bhikhu Parekh for hosting the jurors’ meeting. Likewise to Simon Hoggart who is our Master of Ceremonies. Organisational planning and continuity are largely due to PSA Executive members Andrew Russell and Katharine Adeney, Emma Forster and Sue Forster in the PSA National Office and Simon Coote of Alive Events. And we thank the ESRC, Wiley- Blackwell and the Hansard Society for their generous sponsorship. We congratulate our award winners and wish everybody attending a thoroughly enjoyable occasion. Professor Vicky Randall Chair, Political Studies Association of the United Kingdom Political Studies Association Awards 2009 The Political Studies Association exists to develop and promote the study of politics. We are the leading organisation in the UK linking academics in political science and current affairs, theorists and practitioners, policy-makers, journalists, researchers and students in higher education. JOURNALS OTHER PUBLICATIONS WE PROVIDE A FORUM FOR SCHOLARSHIP WE ALSO PROVIDE INFORMATION ABOUT THROUGH FOUR QUALITY JOURNALS, POLITICS AND EXPERTISE THROUGH A PUBLISHED IN ASSOCIATION WITH WILEY- RANGE OF PUBLICATIONS BLACKWELL Political Studies is the leading UK journal PSA News, a quarterly newsletter, featuring in the field and attracts contributions from articles, news from departments, academics of international standing. Through information about research grants and articles, debates and research notes, it reflects projects, plus details of conferences, the vigour and importance of the discipline of specialist groups and other activities. politics and contributes significantly to the development of political science internationally. Political Studies Review brings together the unique book reviews service of Political Studies with a set of major review articles which survey key current issues in political Study Politics, our accessible guide to science. The journal builds on more than fifty studying politics at university, distributed to years of book reviewing which have made all UK sixth-forms and colleges. Political Studies Review the largest source of book reviews in political science in the world. Media Register of Experts, promoting our members’ areas of political expertise to the Politics publishes cutting edge political media. Published online at science research in all the sub-fields of the www.psa.ac.uk/experts discipline, without restriction on themes, approach or country focus. The short article format means that articles are provocative, punchy and readable. The British Journal of Politics and International Relations aims to influence international debates in political science. It encourages contributions from scholars in Annual Directory, listing all political all parts of the discipline and from all parts scientists in the UK and Ireland by university of the globe, and is fast attaining a reputation and department. Published online at for innovative interdisciplinary research. www.psa.ac.uk Political Studies Association Awards 2009 EVENTS AWARDS GRADUATE NETWORK WE OFFER A UNIQUE ARENA FOR THE WE PROMOTE THE STUDY OF POLITICS WE ARE COMMITTED TO SUPPORTING EXCHANGE OF IDEAS AND EXPERTISE THROUGH OUR ANNUAL AWARDS THE NEXT GENERATION OF POLITICAL THROUGH CONFERENCES AND EVENTS AND PRIZES SCIENTISTS Annual Conference, attracting leading politicians, civil servants and academics, and comprising more than 100 specialist discussion panels covering all aspects of the discipline. Network of Specialist Groups, covering all major fields of political research. Each provides a forum in which individuals with specialised research and teaching interests can develop their own seminars and conferences to supplement the Annual Conference. Our prestigious annual awards include: The Graduate Network exists to promote Heads of Department Conference, held links between postgraduate politics students to assist UK political science departments n The Sir Isaiah Berlin Prize throughout the UK. The Graduate Network with planning and training for research for lifetime contribution to political holds its own annual conference, regional and teaching. studies group events and short conferences for members. All postgraduates can join the Media Training Workshops, offering n The W.J.M. Mackenzie Prize Association at a reduced rate, including members expert training and practical for best book published in political free Graduate Network membership. preparation for TV and radio interviews. science www.psa.ac.uk n The Sir Bernard Crick Prize MEMBERSHIP Our award-winning website is an impressive for outstanding teaching in political Membership is open to everyone interested research tool with over 12,000 links to studies in the study and practice of politics. There political information sources. Online services are separate categories of membership for include access to electronic versions of all n Four dissertation prizes people who are retired and for companies. the Association’s journals, Annual for best dissertation in particular fields of Conference papers, Members’ Directory and political studies To join call 0191 222 8021, Register of Experts. e-mail: [email protected], or visit our website: ABOVE www.psa.ac.uk Shami Chakrabarti receiving her award from Lord Bhikhu Parekh in 2007 Political Studies Association Awards 2009 Parliamentarian of the Year DR TONY WRIGHT MP Tony Wright’s distinguished political career He was elected to the House of Commons supplanted a promising academic career in 1992 as Labour MP for Cannock and in political science. After gaining a First Burntwood, and since 1997 he has been Class BSc in Government at the London MP for Cannock Chase. From 1997 to School of Economics he won a Kennedy 1998, he served as Parliamentary Private scholarship to Harvard and subsequently Secretary to the former Lord Chancellor, gained his doctorate at Balliol College, Lord Irvine. Since 1999 Dr Wright has Oxford in 1973. After a two year spell at chaired the Public Administration Select Bangor, Dr Wright went on to lecture in Committee, which oversees the work of politics at the University of Birmingham the Parliamentary Ombudsman and the from 1975 to 1992. He is now an civil service. Earlier this year the THE JUDGES SAY honorary professor of the university. government accepted a proposal from Dr Dr Tony Wright MP was the unanimous Wright to ‘work with a special choice of the jury for Parliamentarian of the A long-serving co-editor of The Political parliamentary commission comprising Year. He was elected as an MP in 1992 and Quarterly, Dr Wright has written many Members from all sides of this House, the panel particularly commended his books, articles and pamphlets. The focus convened for a defined period to advise achievements as chair of the Public of much of his work has been on the on necessary reforms, including making Administration Select Committee from 1999. history, ideology and future of the Labour Select Committee processes more It observed how under his watch the Party, but he also has a long standing democratic, scheduling more and better Committee has worked hard to hold interest in constitutional issues, and time for non-Government business in the government to account and through its contributed a chapter on the British House, and enabling the public to initiate inquiries and reports, such as those on constitution to the book Party Ideology in directly some issues for debate’. lobbying, and good government, Britain (1989) which he edited with demonstrated the analytic parliamentary Leonard Tivey. More recently he has The resulting Select Committee on the function at its finest. Given this track record published articles on parliamentary reform Reform of the House of Commons begins it is a tribute but no surprise that he has been in Talking Politics (1997), Parliamentary its work at the start of this parliamentary asked to chair the important new Affairs (2004), Prospect (2004)
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