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
How Media Shapes Our Understanding of Motherhood
In this return of the Field Notes, Dr. Miranda J. Brady explores the complexities of motherhood and its representation in…
Criminology Professor Alex McClelland Wins Distinguished Medal
Alex McClelland (left) and Ken Miller (Canadian AIDS Society) Alex McClelland recently received the King Charles III’s Coronation Medal for…
FPGA Announces New Student EDI Research Award
The Faculty of Public and Global Affairs is launching an EDI Research Award at the undergraduate and graduate level. The…
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.