The Political Studies Association of Ireland Specialist Group on Big Data, Text Analysis and Methodology invites paper submissions for the Annual Conference of the PSAI, which will take place at the Waterford Institute of Technology 14-16 October 2022: https://psai2022waterford.wordpress.com/blog/ Our Specialist Group seeks to organise a set of panels (3-5 papers each) around the application of computational methods (e.g., computational text analysis, images as data, social networks) to the domain of politics. Topics include, but are not limited to: • Using images or text to study (political) communication and political competition • Emotion detection in images and text • Campaigns and social media • Political rhetoric • Legislative speech • Authoritarian politics • Extremist communication in online spaces • Multilingual text analysis The PSAI Annual Conference is a great and informal conference that offers ample opportunities to network. Participants in our computational methods panels are sure to receive constructive and useful feedback on their work. Last year, the conference hosted 7 panels with 25 papers that featured computational methods. We strongly encourage applications from women, racial and ethnic minorities, and junior scholars. Limited funding is available for Postgraduate Students who are PSAI members. See here for details: http://www.psai.ie/funding-calls/. Those interested should submit an abstract to martijn.schoonvelde@rug.nl by Friday 24th June 2022. This abstract should include: – Paper title, – Author name(s) and affiliation(s), – Professional status (PhD student, postdoc, lecturer, professor, independent scholar), – Abstract of the proposed paper (no more than 200 words). Please get in touch if you have any questions. Constantine Boussalis Martijn Schoonvelde -- Dr Martijn Schoonvelde Assistant Professor in European Politics & Society Faculty of Arts University of Groningen mschoonvelde.com