Conferences

The 2024 PSAI Annual Conference will be hosted by Trinity College Dublin on 18-20 October 2024. Paper proposals should be submitted by 20 July 2024. You can find out more at the conference webpage.

The PSAI also organises a biennial Postgraduate Conference. The next Postgraduate Conference will take place in Dublin in December 2024. Paper proposals should be submitted by 31 August 2024. Further details can be found at this link.

From our Blog

Irish Policy Agendas Project workshop 21/06/2024
The Irish Policy Agendas Project held a workshop this week, bringing together researchers using and generating Irish policy agendas data, developing plans for new policy agendas projects, and studying policy agenda-setting in other ways. The workshop was supported by the PSAI’s Public Policy Specialist Group through the PSAI’s Specialist Group Funding scheme, and the NUI…
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The electoral system used to elect Ireland’s MEPs 17/06/2024
As noted here a couple of weeks ago, it’s debateable whether Ireland complies with the requirement in EU law that MEPs are to be elected using a system of proportional representation (PR), be that a list system or PR-STV. At present 25 countries use some kind of list system, while Ireland and Malta employ PR-STV.…
Michael Gallagher
Ireland-China Relations Conference 12/06/2024
Dr Alexander Dukalskis is an Associate Professor in UCD’s School of Politics and International Relations (SPIRe). The PSAI International Relations and Area Studies Specialist Group recently helped support a conference on Ireland-China relations. The event, held on May 23rd, was a collaboration between the UCD Centre for Asia-Pacific Research and the University of Notre Dame’s Clingen…
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Is it time for a new electoral system to elect Ireland’s MEPs? 31/05/2024
By Michael Gallagher The plethora of candidates for the European Parliament elections due in Ireland on 7 June raises the question of whether the country is using the most appropriate method of electing its MEPs. With 23 candidates in Dublin and South, and 27 in Midlands–North-West, voters will be faced with a disconcertingly lengthy ballot…
Michael Gallagher
New and interdisciplinary perspectives on conflict and hunger 21/05/2024
Dr Caitriona Dowd is an Assistant Professor in UCD’s School of Politics and International Relations (SPIRe). This post describes a workshop on Conflict & Hunger: New and Interdisciplinary Perspectives. The workshop was organised by Dr Dowd with the generous support of the PSAI’s Peace and Conflict Specialist Group. The UCD Africa Engagement Seed Fund kindly…
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