The Network for Studying Parliaments and the Role of Knowledge (or SPARK-net) brings together researchers that are interested in and want to further advance research and insight on relationships between parliaments and knowledge. The network includes members who have explicitly researched, or are in the process of researching, how and why parliaments gather and consume, synthesise and produce, and/or evaluate and use different types of knowledge to fulfil democratic functions in political systems. Members of the network are interested in a broad range of questions and are not bound by any particular research question or topic. Instead, SPARK-net is a community of academic (and academic-adjacent) researchers that are engaged in reflecting on and pursuing further research in this broad field. As such, members examine this topic from any disciplinary background, theoretical approach or methodological tools. Furthermore, research cuts across a range of different parliamentary functions, processes, sites, actors or structures. It includes any parliamentary context from around the world, might focus on single country case studies (at state or sub-state level) or be comparative in nature.