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To Read the October Issue of PSA News OCTOBER 2020 psa.ac.uk @PolStudiesAssoc @polstudiesassoc polstudiesassoc Join us in #PSA21 2021 to explore Resilience. Expertise. Hope. t’s great to see so many PSA members and other scholars hard and many other interrelated issue areas that combine to generate Iat work getting paper and panel proposals together for our next the most pressing challenges of our age. PSA annual conference which will be held from 29-31 March But hurry the convenors from Queen’s University Belfast 2021. need your proposals uploaded onto the conference portal by 12 We’re excited by the conference theme. Resilience, Expertise October! and Hope will be crucial ingredients in our ability to adapt and If you require more information on how to do this and the respond in the wake of fundamental disruptions such as the conference theme please look at our Call to Papers. global pandemic. They will also prove invaluable in informing and Or contact Professor Alister Miskimmon and Dr Stefan shaping diverse and evolving research agendas in political science Andreasson and/or [email protected] to make sense of and understand the global economy, global ecosystems and the climate, public health, international security, continued on page 4 Webinars for the win: PSA-Parliament PhD Research success National Teaching teaching and learning online Internship 2020/21 in PAIS, Warwick Fellowship awards during a pandemic announced Page 5 Page 9 Page 11 Page14 2 CONTENTS Association News Join us in 2021 to explore Resilience. Expertise. Hope. 1 A message from our Chair 3 CEO Message 4 Webinars for the win: teaching and learning online during a pandemic 5 2020 Departmental Leadership Conference 6 @PolStudiesAssoc #BecauseTheInternet 2020: ECN sees great success with inaugural cyber-conference 6 @polstudiesassoc Early Career Network Committee 7 polstudiesassoc Introducing our new Trustees 8 PSA-Parliament PhD Internship 2020/21 9 Editorial Information We are pleased to announce the nominations for this year’s W.J.M. Mackenzie Book Prize 10 Editor John Pollock Email: [email protected] Department and Member News Political Studies Association Elizabeth Meehan Suite Regent House - Unit 2 Research success in PAIS, Warwick 11 Pratt Mews “Open Doors and Building Bridges” at the University of Surrey 12 London NW1 0AD Tel: 020 7321 2545 Celebrating the Politics and International Relations programme at Canterbury Christ Church! 13 Email: [email protected] Membership: 01787 221026 PSA Communities Email: [email protected] Chief Executive Officer: National Teaching Fellowship awards announced 14 Michelle Doyle Wildman Registered Charity No. 1071825; Whither Environmental Politics in a Post-COVID world? 14 Registered Company with limited Close together while far apart: strengthening the Participatory and Deliberative liability in England and Wales, Democracy community during social distancing 15 No. 3628986 To advertise in this Newsletter, The Politics and History Specialist Group Annual Conference 2020 16 please contact [email protected] Call for Papers: Public Administration and Public Policy Specialist Group 16 4th annual Populism Specialist Group workshop: The “Populist Moment”: Design Temporality, Transformations, Crises’ 17 Doug MacKay Challenges and change for PSA Parliaments Specialist Group 18 dmackaydesign.co.uk Launching our Specialist Group blog series: Europe’s response to COVID-19 19 Journals Politics editors announce the prize winners for best articles in 2019 20 BJPIR announces the John Peterson Prize for Best Article in 2019 21 Schools Continuing Professional Development for Teachers and the UK Parliament 22 Announcing the winners of the PSA/Financial Times Student Blog Competition 22 Meet the Trustees Manjeet Ramgotra 23 psa.ac.uk ASSOCIATION NEWS 3 A message from our Chair Written by Roger Awan Scully been to provide immediate, practical help to our members. We can’t prevent this being a difficult time for many; but we can help them be better informed and equipped to address the difficulties. Our Teaching and Learning Network have taken the lead on two excellent series of webinars about the challenges of planning and delivering online teaching. These sessions, delivered in collaboration with our friends at BISA, have attracted hundreds of participants and allowed for expertise and experiences to be shared across our community. We have also tried to provide other ways of consulting with the academic community and sharing experiences. We have held several online Heads of Department meetings in the last few months, allowing leaderships figures to their discuss common concerns and explore ways of addressing those issues. More recently, and again working with our friends at BISA, we held our Departmental Leadership Conference, where a large group of leaders from different departments joined us for a day of varied discussions. I was particularly pleased that we concluded the day with a panel on Race and Racism in HE. Though some protest about political correctness and ‘wokeness’ in the academy, the lived experience of hen I wrote for the last edition of PSA News as the newly- many BAME staff and students - as for many women and those from Winstalled Chair of the association, I very much hoped that by disadvantaged backgrounds or with protected characteristics - is the time I was writing to you all again we would have some sort of that universities often do not feel like welcoming places. It is the return to ‘normality’. That was clearly over- responsibility of all of us to try and change that. optimistic. The summer falls in the Covid-19 Much of the life of the PSA is the work of our death and case totals, and the easing of “Much of the life of specialist groups and networks, and we have also restrictions that followed them, now appear to the PSA is the work of been making considerable efforts in recent months have been but a temporary and partial reprieve. our specialist groups to support these groups maintaining their activities And the experience thus far of many north and networks, and we in very unusual circumstances. Sometimes this has American universities and colleges suggests involved ripping up the traditional ways of doing that the new academic year threatens a further have also been making things and embracing innovation. For instance (and worsening of the pandemic. considerable efforts discussed elsewhere in this edition of PSA News), As Claudius observed in Hamlet, “When in recent months our Early Career Network’ annual conference sorrows come, they come not single spies. But in to support these this summer was transformed from a two-day in battalions.” If Covid-19 were the only problem groups maintaining person event to a two-week, asynchronous online we faced it would be difficult enough. Sadly, the their activities conference that attracted a larger number of education sector, and particularly the higher participants from more countries than ever before. education institutions in which so many of us in very unusual It was fantastic to see our junior colleagues taking work and study, are facing multiple challenges. In circumstance” the lead and adopting such a proactive approach, addition to Covid-19, the major issues include: and their conference provides a model that many other groups may be able to learn from. • Substantial hostility to universities in general, and the social And speaking of conferences… as you will all recall, Covid-19 forced sciences, in sections of the governing UK party. a very sudden and very sad cancellation of our 2020 conference in • Continuing problems with the Universities Superannuation Edinburgh. We are determined that in March 2021 we will meet again. Scheme threatening, in the short-term, further strike action, As we detail elsewhere in this issue, the Belfast conference team have but in the longer-term a huge erosion of the living standards of some fantastic plans in place, and rarely has a conference theme many working in HE. (‘Expertise. Resilience. Hope.’) been more pertinent. I do hope that • Brexit, and the multiple potential impacts of the UK leaving the many of you will be a part of it. EU economic space in January 2021. In this context, the work of the PSA now is probably more important than it has ever been in the 70-year long life of our association. Professor Roger Awan-Scully is the Chair of the Political Studies Association. One major priority for the PSA over the last few months has psa.ac.uk 4 ASSOCIATION NEWS A message from our CEO Michelle Doyle Wildman hank you for reading this edition of PSA News which is crammed Tfull of past and future activities by and for our members. Although Education is currently facing challenges, this ably illustrates how many of you continue to strive (undaunted) to innovate and collaborate to advance our discipline. Thank you for your hard work; it inspires the PSA Team and I to do whatever we can to support you. I dearly hope you choose to be a PSA Member in the future and take advantage of all the opportunities we offer to help you and others develop personally and professionally. The PSA is also about amplifying the collective voices of those who teach and study politics and so the bigger we are, of course, the better! Do look at psa.ac.uk to find out more about how you can take part in our association in 2020 & beyond. continued from page 1 #PSA21 “Resilience, Expertise and Hope will be crucial ingredients in our ability to adapt and respond in the wake of fundamental disruptions such as the global pandemic” All being well conference registrations will open on 16th November 2020 – so do make sure you are a PSA Member so you can take advantage our of preferential member rates. Please submit your paper or panel via the conference website here. Please visit the conference page on our website here for regular updates.
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