PSA Excellence & Impact Fund Projects 2025/26

This year, as part of the PSA’s 75th anniversary celebrations, we launched a new Excellence & Impact Fund. This was made available to PSA Specialist Groups who could apply for up to £2000 to cover or contribute towards projects that demonstrate excellence and impact, showcasing research or innovations in Political Studies teaching and scholarship.

We received a number of extremely high-quality, innovative applications, which made the final decision very difficult. Thank you to everyone who applied.

We are delighted to announce that the following successful project proposals will receive funding for completed projects in 2025/26.

• Greek Politics Specialist Group, for Political Lessons from Greece: A Case of Unlikely Democratic Resilience, event and related outputs.
   
• Participatory & Deliberative Democracy Specialist Group, for New Frontiers of Democratic Theory and Practice: An International Workshop, and related outputs.
   
• Global Development Politics and Environmental Politics Specialist Groups for Geopolitics of NetZero Transition, Green Hydrogen and local and international dimensions of a Just Transition, event and related outputs.
   
• Political Thought Specialist Group for Political Theory and Impact Roundtable, and related outputs.
   
• Political Thought Specialist Group for The people vs the demos: rethinking the democratic collective in populist times, event and related outputs.
   
• Italian Politics Specialist Group for Italy under Giorgia Meloni: A Vanguard in the management of migration and security challenges?, event and related outputs.
   
• American Politics Specialist Group for American Politics Group A-Level Engagement Project, essay competition, event and related outputs.
    
• Autocracy and Regime Change Specialist Group for The Authoritarian Eco-System Policy Brief Series.
   
• Territorial Politics Specialist Group for Creative Methodologies in Political Science workshop and related outputs.
   
• Media and Politics Specialist Group for Scottish Election Analysis 2026: Media, voters and the campaign, first ever report dedicated specifically to the Scottish Election, launch event and related outputs.
   

Look out for publicity about these forthcoming projects and events, and we will share project updates and progress. We look forward to supporting this work over the coming months.