Political Studies Association

*PSA New Trustees*
We are delighted to welcome on to the PSA Executive Committee Dr Simon Choat, Kingston University & Dr Roula Nezi, University of Surrey. Prof. Nicholas Allen, Royal Holloway University of London, has been appointed for a second term.

We would also like to thank Dr Manjeet Ramgotra, SOAS, University of London and Dr Heather Alberro, University of Manchester for their valuable contributions to the PSA as they end their term as trustees.

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*LATEST ISSUE PSA NEWS*
June issue of PSA News membership magazine out now! Including;
➡️ Reflections on PSA26 Annual Conference, including updates from the Teaching & Learning Network and Early Career Network
➡️ Celebrating our 2026 Academic Prize Winners
➡️ Upcoming Excellence and Impact Fund, and PSA Membership Review
➡️ Preview and planning for PSA27, the latest from Political Insight Magazine, and updates from the Student Blog Competition and EDI Corner
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PSA News: June 2026 - Political Studies Association PSA News is our bi-annual membership magazine which highlights relevant activities and initiatives within our organisation and the broader profession. June’s 2026 issue of PSA News Read here The latest issue of PSA News highlights our recent and upcoming activities: Reflections on PSA26 and update...

*PSA STUDENT BLOG WINNER*
🌟Congratulations to Michaela Amiekhai from Harris Chobham Academy, winner of our 2026 student blog competition in partnership with FT for schools and Shout Out UK.

Michaela and runners up Michael Dagnachew and Sanjana Bathala were invited to attend the “Listening Better: Polling, Misinformation, and Democratic Engagement” event in parliament this week, organised by ShoutOut UK and the Financial Times, where they met with student blog judge, Stephen Bush, Associate Editor and columnist at the Financial Times.

Read Michaela's winning blog, 'AI should be the Assistant, Not the Author, in Political Discourse'

Results are in - 2026 Student Blogs Competition! - Political Studies Association “Can Social Media help save Democracy?” This was the question asked of students, aged 16-19 in full time secondary education, who were invited to respond by submitting a blog to the annual PSA/FT Student Blog Competition, supported by ShoutOut UK. The judges were impressed with the high standard...

*PSA STUDENT BLOG COMPETION*
“Can Social Media help save Democracy?”
🏅Congratulations to the winner and runners up of our Student Blog Competition.
🌟 From an impressive number and quality of responses we are delighted to announce this year’s winner is 16 year old Michaela Amiekhai, from Harris Chobham Academy.
➡️ Read the winning blog https://buff.ly/FRTWayx
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Results are in - 2026 Student Blogs Competition! - Political Studies Association “Can Social Media help save Democracy?” This was the question asked of students, aged 16-19 in full time secondary education, who were invited to respond by submitting a blog to the annual PSA/FT Student Blog Competition, supported by ShoutOut UK. The judges were impressed with the high standard...

*PSA EVENTS*
Call for Papers - TLN Annual Conference
Seeing paper proposals for & Network conference; 'Teaching amid Chaos' at University of Glasgow, 3 - 4 September 2026.
📆 Deadline for proposals 30 June

Teaching and Learning Network Conference 2026 - Political Studies Association The Political Studies Association is pleased to announce that the Teaching and Learning Network Conference 2026 will be held at the University of Glasgow on Thursday 3rd and Friday 4th September. The theme of this year’s conference will be ‘teaching amid chaos’ and the organisers would like to...

*PSA BLOG*
❓️What can Anarchists teach us about Education?
In this latest blog Professor Ruth Kinna, University of Loughborough and co-founder of PSA group Anarchist Studies Network, explores what we might learn from and for .

Ruth Kinna proposes that; "If the point of education was to promote cooperation and mutual aid, then sharing insights about educational practice in Emilia Romagna was as valuable as the advancement of abstract science...Science detached from life was likely to be unreliable. Art without science was impoverishing. The conundrum for the educator was to find a way of enabling art to inform science so that science remained pertinent to it. This required interconnection, trust, collaboration and dialogue. The way forward was to fashion institutions ‘from the bottom up’ to facilitate artistic exchange and the dissemination of science across communities. These ideas about education, teaching and learning continue to animate anarchist practice.... The UK also boasts a range of free skools, free universities, along with experiments in curriculum design and teaching practice. In mainstream education, too, anarchists work with professionals to find spaces within the crowded school curricula to share information about anarchist approaches".

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What We Can All Learn from Anarchists about Education - Political Studies Association Author: Professor Ruth Kinna, University of Loughborough I’m not a diligent watcher of royal events, but I was excited to read about the Princess of Wales’s recent visit Reggio Emilia to learn more about the way early years learning has developed in the city. The BBC report calls its child-centr...

*PSA & APSA EVENT*
in an Age of Generative Artificial Intelligence.
22 – 26 June 2026, online
Fully booked
A joint online symposium bringing together political science educators from to share best practices.
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APSA PSA - Teaching Political Science in an Age of Generative Artificial Intelligence - Political Studies Association APSA PSA – Teaching Political Science in an Age of Generative Artificial Intelligence (G*I) Online, 22 – 26 June 2026 The American Political Science Association’s (APSA) Teaching and Learning program and the Political Studies Association (PSA) Teaching & Learning Network are pleased to announc...

*PSA EVENT*
📊 Creative Methodologies in Political Research Workshop
📆 24–25 June 2026 | Scottish Political Archive, University of Stirling
➡️ Organised by the PSA Territorial Politics Specialist Group
Supported by the Political Studies Association (PSA) Excellence & Impact Fund
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Territorial Politics Workshop - Creative Methodologies in Political Research - Political Studies Association Creative Methodologies in Political Research Workshop 24–25 June 2026 | Scottish Political Archive, University of Stirling Organised by the PSA Territorial Politics Specialist Group Supported by the Political Studies Association (PSA) Excellence & Impact Fund Register to attend Political science h...

*PSA EVENTS*
Call for Papers -“Dis(mis)information and the Public Sphere in the Age of AI”
Paper proposals are invited for the joint annual conference of the PSA’s Media & Politics and Technology, Information & Policy specialist groups.
📆 Proposal deadline: 7 Sept 2026
📆 Event date 12 - 13 January 2027, London
➡️ Full details https://buff.ly/rkF5srs
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Media and Politics & Technology, Internet, and Policy Joint Annual Conference - Political Studies Association “Dis(mis)information and the Public Sphere in the Age of AI” You are warmly invited to submit papers for presentation at the joint annual conference of the Political Studies Association’s Media and Politics Group & Technology, Information and Policy Group. This year’s conference theme, “Di...

*PSA News*
🎉Congratulations to Peter Geoghegan .bsky.social, editor of PSA Political Insights magazine, who has just won Private Eye’s 2026 Paul Foot Award for Investigative and Campaigning Journalism for his work with colleague Khadija Sharife for their ‘Democracy for Sale’ newsletter, which exposed how Labour Together hired a PR firm to target journalists.
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The Paul Foot Award | Private Eye The Paul Foot Award is an award given for investigative or campaigning journalism, set up in memory of revered journalist Paul Foot, who died in 2004.