Our Research
The Faculty of Public and Global Affairs (FPGA) is home to more than 200 of Canada’s leading scholars and public intellectuals conducting research at the intersections of politics, policy, and public life. Working within and across more than a dozen schools, institutes, and departments, our faculty members marshal their expertise to tackle the most urgent challenges facing Canada and the world, and to shape knowledge and understanding about their complex political, economic, cultural, and moral entanglements.
FPGA boasts four prestigious Canada Research Chairs who advance Carleton’s leadership in governance and artificial intelligence, global media and activism, gender, race and politics, and transnational families, aging and care. Many of our faculty members are recognized for their international research leadership as Royal Society of Canada Fellows and as Members of the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists.
In addition, FPGA is home to several endowed chairs in such diverse areas as climate policy and sustainability, science journalism, Canadian parliamentary democracy, and international economic policy, among others. Our community-engaged, action-oriented research influences and shapes policy, knowledge, and understanding, at the global/international, national, and local levels. Our faculty members attract high-calibre graduate students and postdoctoral fellows who help advance our research contributions and impacts, and whose own scholarship shapes the future terrain of our disciplines and fields.
Finally, the multiple research institutes and labs in FPGA, funded externally by Canadian and international granting agencies and foundations, are incubators of new ideas that influence how states and governments, civil society actors, and the private sector all confront the wicked problems and pressing issues of our time, including Indigenous governance, migration, human rights, and global security.
Research News and Stories
Strengthening Indigenous Justice: One Life Story at a Time
Field Notes Jane Dickson, Law and Legal Studies Jane Dickson’s work focuses on strengthening Indigenous access to justice through the development, training, and evaluation of Gladue reports and …
NPSIA’s Elisabeth Gilmore Joins Royal Society of Canada
Carleton University researchers, Jennifer Evans, Elisabeth Gilmore, Carmen Robertson and Richard Yu have been named to the Royal Society of Canada (RSC), honouring the significant …
Driven by Curiosity, Focused on Care: Meet Mehdi Ammi
Mehdi Ammi investigates the long-term value of preventive public health spending, analyzing how smarter investments can save lives and improve population health.
Rebuilding 1st Nations Governance Publications
The Rebuilding First Nations Governance (RFNG) research team is pleased to havethree articles featured in the Canadian Public Administration (CPA) journal’s special issue on IndigenousResilience …
Carleton University Awarded SSHRC Partnership Grant to Advance Inclusive Responses to Forced Migration
The Local Engagement Refugee Research Network (LERRN) has been awarded one of 17 Partnership Grants nationwide.
SSHRC Announces Latest FPGA Research Winners
The Faculty of Public and Global Affairs is celebrating its latest winners of research grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), including …
Excellence in Research
Canada Research Chairs
Learn about the Canada Research Chairs in the Faculty of Public Affairs and their innovative research across disciplines.
Celebrating Research Distinction in the Faculty of Public and Global Affairs
Recognizing the achievements of Faculty of Public Affairs researchers and scholars.