Dr Alex Meakin co-wins prize for best PSA Specialist Group!

We are very proud to announce that our very own CDE member, Dr Alex Meakin, has won the prize for the best PSA Specialist Group this year, together with her co-convenor, Dr Stephen Bates (Birmingham University), of the specialist group on Parliaments. Alex has in fact won this same prize twice, first when she served as Communications Officer in the Group in 2018 and this year, as Co-Convenor. The PSA said:

“The study of parliaments is one of the longest-standing yet also most vibrant and modern areas of British political science. The PSA is delighted to be able to recognise the considerable efforts of its Parliaments specialist group in contributing to this. In difficult circumstances since 2020, this specialist group has played an exemplary role in maintaining - indeed, in some respects enhancing - its own activities. The judges were particularly impressed by its communications with members and the high quality of the events that it organises. Recent years have seen several members of this specialist group win individual PSA prizes, further testament not only to the vitality of work in this area but of the continuing strength of the Parliaments group.”