Since its inception in 2012, the Punk Scholars Network has expanded its membership and activities through conferences, symposiums, publications, talks and exhibitions, whilst seeking to maintain its original aim as an international forum for scholarly debate. The Punk Scholars Network has also held a long-standing commitment towards the nurturing of research, not only in terms of post-doctoral output, but also through pedagogical and academic support for postgraduate and undergraduate research students whilst encouraging and supporting non-academics to pursue and develop their interests in punk scholarship.

To date, the Punk Scholars Network has delivered workshops, symposiums and conferences in Leicester, Birmingham, Northampton, Bolton, Lincoln, Newcastle and London. The PSN organised a global online conference involving regional groups across three continents in 2020 and 2021, including the United Kingdom, United States, Brazil, Colombia, France, Indonesia, Australia and Iberia, before returning to in-person events from 2022 onward. International conferences have taken place in Los Angeles, Chicago, Jakarta Rio de Janeiro, Prague, Salerno, Paris and at The Punk Rock Rock Museum in Las Vegas.

These events have reflected a broad range of critical themes including global, historical and contemporary punk scenes, punk pedagogy, DIY, punk and spirituality, identities and sexualities, punk art and aesthetics, curatorial practices, punk and noise, punk resilience and the social and political legacy of the 1980s anarcho-punk movement.