By Dr. Sarah Jenkins (University of Galway) Yuliang Lu (UCD), Marianna Espinos Blasco (UCD) and Caitríona Dowd (DCU) engage in a panel on gender, race, and sexualities in peace and conflict chaired by Niall Ó Dochartaigh (University of Galway). Dr Sarah Jenkins (University of Galway) welcomes participants The School of Political Science and Sociology at…

The launch of Cybersecurity, Privacy and Data Protection in EU Law. A Law, Policy and Technology Analysis by Dr. Maria Grazia Porcedda and published by Hart Publishing, an imprint of Bloomsbury, took place at the Senior Common Room of Trinity College Dublin on April 19th 2023. The book launch was supported by the PSAI’s Book…

This blog posts marks a symposium recently published in Irish Political Studies: ‘Gender and Political Change in the Republic of Ireland: Sites of Progress and Contestation’, edited by Dr. Lisa Keenan and Dr. Claire McGing. Lisa Keenan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Trinity College Dublin (TCD). She researches on…

On 8 February, Peter Emerson (the de Borda Institute, www.deborda.org) made a presentation of The Punters’ Guide to Democracy (2022, Springer, Heidelberg) to President Michael D. Higgins at Áras an Uachtaráin. He was joined by Prof. Peter Stone, Cllr. Dr. Vanessa Liston, and Rosalind Skillen (Master’s student, UCD).  This is Peter Emerson’s argument for adopting the Modified Borda Count: Binary voting in decision-making…

Valesca Lima, Rafaela Pannain and Gabriela Martins were delighted to launch their book The Consequences of Brazilian Social Movements in Historical Perspective, recently published by Routledge. The book was launched at the 46th Conference of the National Association of Graduate Studies and Research in Social Sciences (ANPOCS) at the University of Campinas in São Paulo…

The Conference programme for the PSAI Postgraduate Conference held at Queen’s University Belfast this December is now live! Sir David Sterling KCB, former Head of the Northern Ireland Civil Service, will be this year’s keynote speaker. The programme can be viewed here. The conference is open to all to attend, but registration to attend the conference…

By Peter Emerson Mariupol is yet another city which humankind has first created… and then destroyed, flattened, like Guernica and Warsaw.  And Russia now does to others, what it too has suffered, as in Leningrad and by its own hand, in Grozny. Mariupol is not a Russian word; if it were Russian or Slavic, it…

By Mary C. Murphy and Jonathan Evershed Having completed its journey through the House of Commons, the controversial Northern Ireland Protocol Bill now proceeds to the House of Lords, where it is liable to be tied up by weeks of debate and attempts at amendment. If and when it receives Royal Assent, the Bill will…

Irish Political Studies is seeking expressions of interest in a co-editor position, tenable for three years from 1 January 2023. A specialist background in the politics of Northern Ireland is required, while editorial experience and a clear vision for the future of the journal are highly desirable. Interested candidates should send their expression of interest,…

The call for papers for the 40th PSAI annual conference are now open. The conference will be held between the 14th and 16th October 2022 in the College Street Campus of Waterford IT.  Panel and paper proposals from all areas of the discipline are welcomed, with particular emphasis on, but not necessarily confined to the politics of…