Conferences

The 2025 PSAI Annual Conference will be hosted by University of Galway on 17-19 October 2025.

The PSAI also organises a biennial Postgraduate Conference. The most recent Postgraduate Conference was held in University College Dublin in December 2024.

From our Blog

The gender divide in young people’s political opinions in Ireland 13/01/2025
Dr. Rory Costello is an Associate Professor in the Department of Politics & Public Administration at the University of Limerick. He is Director of WhichCandidate.ie and is a member of the Management Board of the National Election and Democracy Study. Across many developed countries, women have tended to be more left-leaning than men for several decades now…
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Ministerial portfolio changes adding to policy pressures 19/12/2024
Muiris MacCarthaigh is Professor of Politics and Public Policy and Director of the Centre for Public Policy and Administration at Queen’s University Belfast. This blog draws from an article published in 2023 in Irish Political Studies titled ‘Public policy accumulation in Ireland: the changing profile of ministerial departments 1922–2022’. As another coalition government takes shape,…
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Queering Peacebuilding: Reflections on the Women, Peace, and Security Toolkit Workshop 18/12/2024
Alex Richardson is a Ph.D. candidate at the School of Religion, Trinity College Dublin whose research focuses on novel forms of multi-gendered, intersectional peacebuilding. On Friday 6 December, a group of academics, activists, and peace and security practitioners met at Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin, for a workshop that explored how we can…
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The impact of immigration on Sinn Féin support in three charts 09/09/2024
Dr. Rory Costello is an Associate Professor in the Department of Politics & Public Administration at the University of Limerick and is a member of the Management Board of the National Election and Democracy Study. Most observers believe that the dramatic decline in support for Sinn Féin over the past year, and particularly during the…
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Participatory and Deliberative Democracy Specialist Groups Host Conference on Cross-Border Transformations in Constitutional Politics 27/08/2024
Dr Valesca Lima is an Assistant Professor of Politics at Dublin City University’s School of Law and Government. The PSAI and PSA Participatory and Deliberative Democracy Specialist Groups held a one-day conference on August 9th, 2024 entitled “Cross-border Transformations: Deliberation and Participation in Constitutional Politics”. Hosted at the Geary Institute at University College Dublin, the…
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