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Racialized and Indigenous Faculty Alliance Finds Strong Support on Carleton Campus

Racialized and Indigenous Faculty Alliance Finds Strong Support on Carleton Campus

Finding the Right Measurement to Quantify Impact of Public Health

Finding the Right Measurement to Quantify Impact of Public Health

Tackling Climate Change in the Classroom

Tackling Climate Change in the Classroom

By Dan Rubinstein Addressing sustainability more broadly, new programming at Carleton this fall includes the launch of a collaborative specialization in climate change, which students from more than a dozen programs can... More

Carleton’s New Cross-Faculty Innovation Hub Focused on Creative Solutions

Carleton’s New Cross-Faculty Innovation Hub Focused on Creative Solutions

By Dan Rubinstein “This is who I am, this is a problem that I see—and this is what I can do to address it.” That’s the type of thinking Carleton’s new Innovation Hub wants... More

Alumnus Launches Non-Profit to Support Trauma Survivors

Alumnus Launches Non-Profit to Support Trauma Survivors

By Brenna Mackay On a weekday evening last summer in Ottawa’s west end, Brandon Peacock ’19 went to get a haircut at his usual barber shop. Within seconds, his entire... More

FPA Researchers Establish Lab to Study Decentred Governance in the Digital Era

FPA Researchers Establish Lab to Study Decentred Governance in the Digital Era

Processes like seafood sustainability labelling programs or efforts to improve working conditions in the transnational supply chains for apparel and electronics are being devised and driven by non-governmental actors. Digital... More

Carleton Project Already in the Field Tracking Diversity Among Party Candidate Slates

Carleton Project Already in the Field Tracking Diversity Among Party Candidate Slates

As Canada’s major political parties finalize candidate nominations ahead of the Sept. 20 election, a project at Carleton University will help determine whether the candidates are representative of an increasingly... More

Announcing the 2021 FPA Excellence Awards

Announcing the 2021 FPA Excellence Awards

Congratulations to the 2021 FPA Excellence Award recipients! The winners were announced at the online celebration August 12. Research Excellence Award Evelyn Maeder, interim director and professor in the Institute... More

Dale Spencer Named FPA Research Excellence Chair

Dale Spencer Named FPA Research Excellence Chair

Dale Spencer, associate professor in the Department of Law and Legal Studies, received a Faculty of Public Affairs Research Excellence Chair for his commitment to upholding research excellence and contributing... More

Virtual Reality to Provide Vaccine Facts to Combat Hesitancy

Virtual Reality to Provide Vaccine Facts to Combat Hesitancy

A team of researchers at Carleton University received a NSERC Encouraging Vaccine Confidence in Canada grant to create a virtual reality (VR) simulation to provide accurate information about vaccinations to... More

The Covert Imaginary: The Mystery of State Secrecy and Security

The Covert Imaginary: The Mystery of State Secrecy and Security

William Walters, a professor of politics in the Department of Political Science, has recently published State Secrecy and Security: Refiguring the Covert Imaginary (Routledge, 2021). The research is based on... More

Hack At Your Own Risk: Research Explores How Governments, Organizations, Citizens Can Deter Cyber Attacks

Hack At Your Own Risk: Research Explores How Governments, Organizations, Citizens Can Deter Cyber Attacks

Alex Wilner is a recipient of the 2021 Early Researcher Award. By Joseph Mathieu Deterrence theory is technically very simple: a defender needs to convince an aggressor that either the... More