Did you miss our BISA Director and CEO @julietdryden.bsky.social new year's message to members? Taking a look back at 2025 and forward to 2026! 🎉 "As we begin 2026, it is tremendous to see those founding ambitions remain at the very heart of BISA" 🌟 Find here 👉 https://ow.ly/pe3H50XRQa4

Nominations are open now for our Susan Strange Best Book Prize honouring the work of Susan Strange! 🎉 It's important to note that self nominations are now allowed - check all eligibility requirements below! 🌟 👉 https://ow.ly/FRXO50Y04A9 @julietdryden.bsky.social Juanita Elias Jack Holland

Calling for experts ‼️ Looking for BISA members & expert scholars to join us for a policy Lab on governance and artificial intelligence 🎉 Help us to engage with some of the most pressing and complex challenges facing us today 👉 https://ow.ly/M1oA50Y1BLN @julietdryden.bsky.social

L.H.M. Ling Outstanding First Book Prize nominations are OPEN NOW! 🌟 And self nominations are now allowed 🎉 Awarded for afirst book published in any field of International Studies by an early career scholar 📚 👉 https://ow.ly/am0I50Y0uF0 @julietdryden.bsky.social Ida Danewid

REGISTRATION IS OPEN FOR #BISA2026!! Take a look at the conference programme and register now via the conference website: conference.bisa.ac.uk Participant registration deadline: 2 March See you in Brighton 🌊🏖️ @simonrushton.bsky.social @julietdryden.bsky.social @visitbrighton.bsky.social

BISA Director and CEO @julietdryden.bsky.social takes a look back at 2025 and a look ahead to 2026 in her below letter to members! 🌟 'Into 2026 - A new year grounded in our founding ambitions' with a very happy New Year to you all! 🎉 Find her full letter here 👉 https://ow.ly/pe3H50XRQa4

Nominations for our annual BISA prizes have opened today! 🎉 Recognising excellence & achievement through research & teaching in the field of International Studies! 🌟 Open until the 3 February & presented at our annual conference find all info here 👉https://www.bisa.ac.uk/members/prizes

We want to wish you a very happy New Year from BISA! We hope you have had a wonderful start to the year 🎉 Thank you for being part of our international community in 2025 and we look forward to another great year together - bring on 2026! 🌟 @julietdryden.bsky.social

New 'Take Five' w/ Director/CEO @julietdryden.bsky.social & Comms Intern Eve Harrison-Taylor 🚨 📚 Top 5 readings/podcasts on #internationalstudies from the last fortnight! inc: Tom Stevenson, Bronwen Maddox, Jonathan Whittall The Conversation UK, Foreign Affairs & more🌟 👉 https://ow.ly/EKnX50XGLsX

It is that time of the month: our December newsletter is out now! 🎉 Inc: 🌟 A festive message from BISA chair Juanita Elias 🚨 Introducing new BISA/ British Foreign Policy Group UG committee 🌎 5th #climatesim @ Chatham House Find here 👉 https://ow.ly/UtB050XGT3l @julietdryden.bsky.social

Exhibit, sponsor and advertise at #BISA2026 🚨 We have packages to suit all budgets! 🌟 Find out more at 👉 https://ow.ly/QOUQ50XHaFP Yale University Press London 📖 Bristol University Press University of Westminster Press Bloomsbury Books UK Edinburgh University Press Liverpool University Press

New @mybisa.bsky.social newsletter dropped! check it out for our latest special collection, the latest RIS research, and reflections on #BISA50. Remember that BISA members also get free access to RIS and our sister journal @ejisbisa.bsky.social 🥳

In discussion: Jamie J. Hagen 🎉 Get to know Jamie, our EDI officer, a little better through our interview series as she talks about why she wanted to be a BISA trustee & wants to achieve, her area of research & more! 🌟 Full article here! 👉 https://ow.ly/176Z50XCAYH @julietdryden.bsky.social

🚨 BISA call for expressions of interest 🚨 BISA/FCDO Model NATO 2026 🌟 Taking place 25 February 2026 @ FCDO in London this is an amazing opportunity for your university and students alike! 🎉 Find out more and express your interest now by 11 Dec 👉 https://ow.ly/bgV950XwTTm @julietdryden.bsky.social

🚨 Last chance to sign up and celebrate BISA's 50th anniversary with us 🚨 'New dimensions, 50 years on: Reflections on continuity and change in global politics' revisiting the 1st ever BISA conference 🌟 Don't miss out! 👉 https://ow.ly/cBVX50XnBcO @julietdryden.bsky.social

BISA at 50: Take a look back at our first ever BISA conference with Professor Jack Holland 🌟 What notable events were taking place on the world stage at that time? And are they still relevant in IR today? 🎉 Read here now 👉 https://ow.ly/RqvL50Xqolq @julietdryden.bsky.social

🎈🥂 You can never have too much of a good thing... EJIS Volume 10 - Issue 4 (November 2025) is out now! Take a look here: t.co/DdBdIXHOqS @mybisa.bsky.social

Celebrate BISA's 50th anniversary with us 🌟 Revisiting the 1st ever BISA conference held in 1975 'New dimensions, 50 years on: Reflections on continuity and change in global politics' 🎉 Sign up! 👉 https://ow.ly/cBVX50XnBcO @julietdryden.bsky.social Inderjeet Parmar Pedro Perfeito da Silva

This weekend is the LAST WEEKEND for #BISA2026 conference submissions! 🚨 Is International Studies ready for what comes next? New thinking, new directions 🎉 Make sure to submit your papers now 👉 https://conference.bisa.ac.uk/call-papers-0 VisitBrighton Simon Rushton @julietdryden.bsky.social

Our BISA/ISA joint workshops brought together people from all over the world 🌎 Find out all about them and why collaboration between associations is important in our review video 👉 https://ow.ly/Uo1A50Xk7Xj Dr Skyler Hawkins @chrisfeathers.bsky.social International Studies Association Audie Klotz

Remember - our Early Career Small Research Grants are open now! 🎉 "The Grant has helped me lay the groundwork for future impact." Alex Gilder Receive up to £3,000 to cover the cost of research expenses! 💵 Eligibility requirements 👉 https://www.bisa.ac.uk/members/funding Anna Katila Nisan Alıcı

Welcome! Our @isanet.bsky.social and BISA workshops have begun in Newcastle with a roundtable on transforming the international @isanetexdir.bsky.social @skylerehawkins.bsky.social @audieklotz.bsky.social @julietdryden.bsky.social @nclpolitics.bsky.social #BISAISA2025

Lovely atmosphere at day 2 of our BISA and @isanet.bsky.social joint workshops in Newcastle! #BISAISA2025 @skylerehawkins.bsky.social @nclpolitics.bsky.social @julietdryden.bsky.social

🚨NEW🚨 We are launching a new Undergraduate Network for IR & Foreign Policy with British Foreign Policy Group for undergrads across the UK to learn, engage, and network in ways that go beyond the classroom 🌟 First meeting on Weds 👉 https://ow.ly/b3jw50XajTR Evie Aspinall @julietdryden.bsky.social

Meet our new BISA PGN committee! 🎉 We're delighted to introduce you to the new PGN committee for the next academic year: Konstantinos Manakos, Iris Magne David Cardillo and CJ Simon 🌟 Read more about our new team! 👉 https://ow.ly/X69B50XbCiP @julietdryden.bsky.social Juanita Elias

We are launching a new Undergraduate Network for IR and Foreign Policy with British Foreign Policy Group 🎉 For undergrads across the UK interested in IR, diplomacy, and foreign policy 🌟 Join our first meeting to find out more about the network 👉 https://ow.ly/4nNu50X8uR7

Come and read about what all of our amazing working groups have been up to in the last academic year! 🌟 We hope this shows the strength, depth and hard work of each of the working groups 🎉 👉 buff.ly/9o2b934 @julietdryden.bsky.social

Make sure you get your #BISA2026 submissions in 🎉 'Is International Studies ready for what comes next? New thinking, new directions' 🌎 ‼️Find out more about #BISA2026 & how great Brighton is - a creative, sustainable welcoming and diverse city: https://ow.ly/M0Tu50X5tt7 @julietdryden.bsky.social

Could at least two of you be the next BISA Foreign Policy WG convener team - we are looking for a team of at least two conveners to join! 🎉 Interested? Please send an expression of interest to [email protected] by 30 September 🌟 @julietdryden.bsky.social Juanita Elias Sharad Joshi

🚨Looking for institutions!🚨 Partnering with Chatham House we are looking for universities to take part in our annual climate negotiation simulation event 🎉 Deadline to apply is 19 October #climatesim 🌳 Sign up now 👉 https://ow.ly/x78g50X4oVl @julietdryden.bsky.social

Could you be the next BISA Foreign Policy WG convener? 🌎 Looking for a team of at least two new conveners to join the team - an opportunity to shape your area of research and expand your networks! 🎉 Interested? Please send an expression of interest to [email protected] by 30 September 🌟

'Susan Strange meets the everyday: The mundane sources of structural power' 🌎 🎉 Read a summary of this fascinating new @kasperarabi.bsky.social @risjnl.bsky.social article 👉 buff.ly/96iK4c2 🌟 Want more? Read the full article: buff.ly/sm0UU7q @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org @warwickpais.bsky.social

Wonderful opportunity for UG and taught PG students to really experience what it’s like to negotiate refinements to international climate change agreements.

Reminder that our #BISA2026 call & homepage is OPEN NOW - we can't wait to see you in Brighton! 🎉 🌟 Our call for papers is here with submissions for papers opening on the 24th of September - buff.ly/MzLS1aT @simonrushton.bsky.social @visitbrighton.bsky.social @julietdryden.bsky.social

BISA and @shepherdbooks.bsky.social have a new call and we want to feature you! 🎉 Read more about this amazing opportunity to highlight yourself down below! 🌟 👉 buff.ly/46vMhXe @ipegbisa.bsky.social @bisa-ecpwg.bsky.social @juanitamarieelias.bsky.social @julietdryden.bsky.social

Just published - our #BISA2025 conference video featuring the best highlights 🎉 We would love you to watch it - spot yourself down below! 🌟 👉 buff.ly/znA2PGP @julietdryden.bsky.social @peternewell.bsky.social @juanitamarieelias.bsky.social @bleiker.bsky.social @debbielisle.bsky.social

@shepherdbooks.bsky.social and BISA needs you! 🎉 We have a new call for our Shepherd book partnership and we want to feature you! Giving you a chance to highlight your book and other IR texts this is an opportunity not to miss! 📚 Find out more here 👉 buff.ly/c2CD2lt @julietdryden.bsky.social

Calling all postgrads! Please consider putting your name forward as a committee member of BISA’s post graduate network. Over 550 members and your chance to shape the agenda and make new contacts. See below.

Brighton here we come! Very excited for BISA2026. Let’s start thinking about panels and roundtables to submit and see if we can reach the 375 that were accepted onto the 2025 programme. See our call below. @mybisa.bsky.social @simonrushton.bsky.social

🌟 BISA Aspiring Scholars Fund 🌟 'Fostering the future of International Relations scholarship' by supporting research 🎉 "This is an assistance I will forever cherish." - Promise Frank Ejiofor to donate 👉 www.bisa.ac.uk/give/donate @julietdryden.bsky.social @juanitamarieelias.bsky.social

There were plenty of young scholars who could not attend our conference due to lack of funds. Please consider donating! Every tenner helps!

We like to express our gratitude to our wonderful ambassadors at #BISA2025 who came from @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social and were a key part of how we were able to host and run the conference 🌟 From everyone at BISA - thank you so much for all your hard work 🎉 @julietdryden.bsky.social

📚Introduction to book publishing! 📚 w/ @julietdryden.bsky.social Isobel Cowper-Coles, Fiona Richman, Don Jacobs, John Haslam & @atifajiwa.bsky.social #BISA2025

🌟A huge thank you to everyone from BISA for #BISA2025 in Belfast - this conference was only made possible with all your work and contributions and we could not be more grateful. 🌟 We had the best time and we hope you did too - roll on #BISA2026 in Brighton! 🎉 @julietdryden.bsky.social

We are excited to be working with Simon on #BISA2026 and although a year away, work will begin almost as soon as we wrap up #BISA2025. See you all next week!

After our open letter with @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social and @uaces.bsky.social to the UK Government we have now created an MP template for you to contact your local MP and detailed how BISA is responding! 🌟 find it here - buff.ly/oKRVLDm @julietdryden.bsky.social @juanitamarieelias.bsky.social

We have joined with @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social and @uaces.bsky.social to write an open letter to the UK Government on the future of #InternationalStudies & funding pressures in #highereducation Read it at: www.bisa.ac.uk/news/open-le... @julietdryden.bsky.social @juanitamarieelias.bsky.social

Postgraduate Network and first-timers meet up at #BISA2025 🎉 🌟Come and join the Postgraduate Network & meet fellow first-timers, postgraduates and ECRs! 🌟 Sponsored by BISA PGN on 17 June at the Sunflower Pub 🌻 More details 👉 buff.ly/8t8P90k ‪@bisa-ecpwg.bsky.social‬ ‪@epir-bisa.bsky.social‬

We are delighted to announce that #BISA2026 is going to be held in Brighton! 🎉 The call for papers for #BISA2026 in Brighton will be released early in September 2025! 🌟 Read more 👉 buff.ly/l7TlHu6 @epir-bisa.bsky.social @bisa-ecpwg.bsky.social @bisa-global-health.bsky.social @gnobisa.bsky.social

💵 Nominations now open for the @ipegbisa.bsky.social Book Prize 2025! 💵 One most prestigious awards in the field of IPE in the UK and beyond 🎉 To be eligible, the book must have been published in 2024 📚 Nominate now 👉 buff.ly/GOT5wTk ‪ @dasilvapp.bsky.social‬ ‪ @juliacalvert.bsky.social‬