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April 13, 2022

NPSIA Student Delves into Electoral Interference for SSHRC Storyteller Competition

The specter of Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election affected the American political landscape for years afterward. But that is only one of many examples of election... More

December 1, 2020

Cross-Country Checkup: Co-Op Student Joins the Collaborative Health Care Innovation Secretariat

From Raven Magazine... Last January, Yassen Atallah — a master’s student at Carleton’s Norman Paterson School of International Affairs — landed a co-op position as a policy analyst at Health Canada’s Health Care Innovation... More

December 1, 2020

Existential Threat: Investing in Technology to Solve Hard Problems

From Raven Magazine... When Fiona McKean and Tobi Lütke launched the Thistledown Foundation in January, the couple seeded their charity with a $150-million endowment and focused on carbon removal technologies. McKean, who runs The Opinicon... More

May 25, 2020

Insight Grants 2020: The Paradox of Digital Trust

In describing his SSHRC-funded research project, Professor Fen Hampson refers to a long list of the ways in which the Internet ecosystem challenges the trust of users and undermines our... More

May 20, 2020

NPSIA Professor Wins Partnership Development Grant for Health System Research

By Lesley Barry Sometimes, development money can only go so far. Countless dollars have been invested in developing countries to increase and improve their health-care services, but when a woman... More

May 8, 2020

Insight Grants 2020: Fragile and Conflict Affected States and Diaspora

David Carment’s research question arose out of his many years studying fragile and conflict affected states. A professor at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs (NPSIA), he is the... More

May 5, 2020

NPSIA Students Bring Policy Perspective to Collins Aerospace

By Karen Kelly Photos by Bryan Gagnon Typically, a global aerospace and defence company like Collins Aerospace would work with academics in technical fields such as engineering. But a partnership... More

April 8, 2020

Q&A: TD Fellow Winner Studies the Payments Immigrants Send Home

MacIsaac is a PhD candidate in the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs (NPSIA) and the 2020 winner of the TD Graduate Fellowship in Migration and Diaspora Studies. He also... More

February 21, 2020

NPSIA Professor Studies Artificial Intelligence and Defence

According to Alex Wilner, Assistant Professor in the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, there is a lot of debate about the use and misuse of artificial intelligence in warfare.... More

November 14, 2019

Book Launch: Exiting the Fragility Trap

Carleton Professors David Carment and Yiagadeesen (Teddy) Samy of the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs (NPSIA) will be presenting a new book, Exiting the Fragility Trap: Rethinking Our Approach... More

October 28, 2019

Graduate Students Publish on Digital Foreign Interference

Whether used for propaganda, information warfare or digital foreign interference, modern developments in artificial intelligence are changing the landscape in foreign affairs and defence. In recognition of the importance of... More

September 20, 2019

FPA Researchers Recognized With SSHRC Insight Grants

Seven Faculty of Public Affairs researchers have been awarded Insight Grants by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. According to SSHRC, the Insight Grant "enables scholars to address complex... More