Parliamentary Academic Fellowships in Constitutional Law and Lobbying and Ethics

The UK Parliament has just launched the recruitment of two Parliamentary Academic Fellows. This Scheme gives university-based researchers and staff working in knowledge exchange the opportunity to participate in a fellowship project with an office in Parliament. 

The first is a Constitutional Law Fellowship. The fellow will work closely with both the House of Commons Library and Select Committee teams to provide expert briefing, advice and analysis on varied and cross-cutting constitutional law issues in the new Parliament.

The second is a Lobbying and Ethics Fellowship. This will be based in the House of Commons Library, and the fellow would support the House in providing expert briefing, advice and analysis on proposals to reform the propriety and ethics landscape in parliament, government and public life.

The closing date for applications is 25th February 2024.  Applications are open to all UK-based university researchers who already have a PhD and are employed on an academic contract, and others as specified in the guidance notes on the scheme.  Applicants are expected to seek funding to conduct the fellowship, from research institutions or research funders. 

For more information about the PAF scheme, or about the specific fellowships, anyone is encouraged to contact Graeme Cowie (cowieg@parliament.uk)

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Call for Papers – Human Rights and Northern Ireland

The Human Rights Centre at Queen’s University Belfast and the Centre for Public Law at the University of Cambridge will co-host a workshop in the School of Law at Queen’s University Belfast on Friday 27 September 2024.

The Workshop will be held in conjunction with the European Human Rights Law Review and co-organised by members of the Editorial team.

Workshop participants are invited to propose papers on Human Rights and Northern Ireland, which may be broadly construed to encompass the following non-exhaustive list of topics:

• Post-Brexit human rights protection, including by way of the “dedicated mechanism”;
• The legacy of “the troubles” and the role of human rights litigation;
• The pursuit of a Bill of Rights for Northern Ireland;
• Reproductive rights and freedoms;
• Journalists’ rights and freedoms;
• Religious rights and freedoms;
• LGBT+ rights and freedoms.

To reiterate, these topics are wholly illustrative. The organisers would welcome abstracts on any topic within the theme of the Workshop broadly construed.

To propose a paper, please submit an abstract of no more than 500 words by 29 February 2024 using this form: https://forms.office.com/e/KM738ex79W

Papers will be selected for inclusion in the Workshop from among the abstracts submitted by the deadline. All who submit will be notified as to whether their papers have been accepted for inclusion in the Workshop by no later than 29 March 2024.

Full papers are to be submitted by 13 September 2024, namely two weeks in advance of the Workshop on Friday 27 September 2024. The papers may be between 5,000 and 10,000 words. It is intended that a selection of the best papers from the Workshop will be included in a Special Issue of the European Human Rights Law Review in early 2025.

Please direct any queries you might have about this event to humanrights-ni@qub.ac.uk.