📣 CALL FOR PAPERS 📣 for 75th The Political Studies Association Annual Conference POLSIS Birmingham 14-16 Apr 2025 Papers due by 18 Oct. Upload your abstract via Ex-Ordo. All details available here (including what PSA Parliaments is looking for in abstracts!): psaparliaments.org/2024/07/12/psa…

MPs are experimenting with a range of security measures in response to abuse and violence. In this new publication, Neil Matthews and I problematise the representative and democratic implications of these measures and sketch out a new research agenda: academic.oup.com/pa/article/doi…

I'm recruiting a Postdoc (20 months) for the attached project. The deadline for applications is 8th August. Link below. Happy to answer informal queries ([email protected]). Retweets appreciated 👍 tinyurl.com/4fttzsc2

Just another chapter in our pension saga…

Just to remind Cllr Majid Mahmood that reducing the speed limits from 40mph to 30mph on some roads was a commitment Bham City Council made one whole year ago after a spate of deaths, intense campaigning pressure and media scrutiny. Yet BCC still hasn't put this in place. Why not?

"Only a Labour Mayor working with a Labour Government will get our future back"

🤓 While chairs are often senior (and/or ambitious) parliamentarians who can strongly steer their committee’s agenda, here’s a fascinating look by 𝗦𝘁𝗲𝗽𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗛𝗼𝗹𝗱𝗲𝗻 𝗕𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 about the patterns of chairing committees over the last 20 years: hansardsociety.org.uk/blog/is-chairi… (5)

🚨HE finances update alert🚨 New research on the latest state of HE finances now available. Summary piece in The Conversation today plus fully analysis with CRAFiC_UOS. Short 🧵with in graphs & charts on why we need to end marketisation 📉👇 1/ theconversation.com/university-fin…

Hello PSA Parliaments people. I’ve been reading these recent publications about parliamentary reform. Have I missed out any that should be on my reading list? Thanks!

The TUC’s decision to sell its iconic Congress House — a modernist monument to the strength of workers — is a sad example of today’s labour movement increasingly losing its sense of purpose. tribunemag.co.uk/2024/08/the-la…

More conservatives should read Marx unherd.com/2022/07/the-so…

Blogged: Labour is talking rubbish about the economy because it is playing by the unspoken rules of politics: stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_and_…

Great piece on how to raise public sector productivity: samf.substack.com/p/how-labour-c…

Delighted to announce PSA members welcomed into the Academy of Social Sciences fellowship this autumn! Congratulations to: Prof John Craig Prof Catherine Durose Prof Jean-Paul Faguet Prof Alan Finlayson Prof Matt Henn Prof Meryl Kenny Prof Cristina Leston-Bandeira psa.ac.uk/FAcSS2024

lordslibrary.parliament.uk/from-the-hansa… This briefing looks back at Lords Hansard to chart the House’s response to radical plans in the 1960s that proposed a new foreign office building, which later formed part of a wider scheme for the redevelopment of Whitehall.