Committee

The PSAI’s Executive Committee is elected each year at the Association’s AGM, held during our annual conference.

The 2022-2023 Executive Committee is:

Jennifer Kavanagh, SETU, President
Peter Stone, TCD, Vice-President
Stefan Müller, UCD, Treasurer
Michele Crepaz, QUB, Secretary
Liam Weeks, UCC, IPS Co-editor
Féilim Ó’hAdhmaill, UCC, IPS Co-editor
Caroline Godard, UL, Equality and Diversity officer
Frances Neilson, QUB, Postgraduate representative
Alexander Dukalskis, UCD, Academic Freedom officer
Jamie Pow, QUB, 2023 Conference Organisation representative
Liam Kneafsey, TCD
Gizem Arikan, TCD
Niall Ó’Dochartaigh, UG
Conor Little, UL

From our Blog

Why is it so difficult to provide maternity leave for TDs and Senators? 15/09/2023
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Constituencies review 2023: the bigger picture 01/09/2023
By Michael Gallagher Lots of well-informed fine-grained analysis around of the constituency review published earlier this week by the Electoral Commission (EC). On the bigger picture, 4 points. 1. EC had no option but to respect the legislation, but regrettable that that specifies that all constituencies must be in range of 3–5 seats. Academic consensus…
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Book launch: A People Under Siege: The Unionists of Northern Ireland, From Partition to Brexit and Beyond by Aaron Edwards 13/07/2023
Professor Arthur Aughey and author Dr. Aaron Edwards at the book launch The launch of A People Under Siege: The Unionists of Northern Ireland, From Partition to Brexit and Beyond took place at No Alibis Bookstore in Belfast on 15 June 2023. Remarks were made by the Publisher at Merrion Press, Conor Graham, who said that the…
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Living Amidst Conflict and Insecurity Workshop, University of Galway 23/05/2023
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Book launch: Cybersecurity, Privacy and Data Protection in EU Law. A Law, Policy and Technology Analysis by Dr. Maria Grazia Porcedda (TCD) 18/05/2023
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…
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