Meet our new PSA Founding Fellows

We are delighted to announce and introduce our new PSA Founding Fellows.

2025 is the PSA’s 75th year and as part of our celebrations to mark this milestone, we have introduced a new PSA fellowship.
 

The PSA has chosen to award 12 founding fellowships to celebrate our history and shape our future. Founding Fellows have been selected by the PSA’s Executive Committee in recognition of their important contribution to the PSA and to the discipline more broadly. As founding fellows their role will also be that of advisors and champions for the Association, discipline and a wider fellowship programme that will be launched later this year.

PSA Founding Fellows were formally announced at this year’s 75th anniversary annual conference in Birmingham. We are proud to recognise these outstanding and esteemed colleagues, and their significant contributions.

Click on the links below to watch short films about how and why some first became involved with the PSA. Watch a full playlist here:
 

• Professor Sarah Childs FPSA, University of Edinburgh
   
• Professor Sir John Curtice FPSA, University of Strathclyde
   
• Professor Philip Davies FPSA, Emeritus Professor, De Montfort University
   
• Professor Justin Fisher FPSA, Brunel, University of London
   
• PSA Vice-President, Professor Matthew Flinders FPSA, University of Sheffield
   
• Professor Kimberly Hutchings FPSA, Queen Mary, University of London
   
• Professor Meryl Kenny FPSA, University of Edinburgh
   
• Professor Fiona Mackay FPSA, University of Edinburgh
   
• Professor The Lord Norton of Louth, Philip Norton FPSA, University of Hull
   
• Professor Shirin Rai FPSA, SOAS, University of London
   
• Dr Manjeet Ramgotra FPSA, SOAS, University of London
   
• PSA Vice-President, Professor Jon Tonge FPSA, University of Liverpool

Commenting on this announcement, current PSA President, Professor Roger Awan-Scully said: