{"id":2921,"date":"2018-05-01T13:47:50","date_gmt":"2018-05-01T17:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/?post_type=cu_people&p=2921"},"modified":"2025-04-29T11:13:52","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T15:13:52","slug":"2921","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/people\/2921\/","title":{"rendered":"Frances Abele"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Frances Abele is Distinguished Research Professor and Chancellor\u2019s Professor Emerita of Public Policy and Administration, Senior Research Fellow of the Carleton Centre for Community Innovation, Faculty Associate of the Centre for European Studies, and Research Fellow at the Broadbent Institute. Dr. Abele is a founder of the Graduate Diploma in Indigenous Policy and Administration and former director of the School of Public Policy and Administration at Carleton. During 1992-96, she was seconded to the research directorate at the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, where she was responsible for research and policy on the North and some of the Commission\u2019s work on governance. A political scientist born in Alberta, Dr. Abele attended the University of Calgary, University of Toronto and York University. She has worked with Indigenous peoples all over Canada and in some parts of the circumpolar Arctic for most of her career. Her research has focused on northern economic and political development, Indigenous-Canada relations, self-government, policy and programs important to Aboriginal people living in cities, policy and program evaluation, qualitative research and citizen engagement. Besides her academic publications, Abele has published research reports with the National Centre for First Nations Governance, Canadian Policy Research Networks, the Institute for Research on Public Policy, the Walter and Duncan Gordon Foundation, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, and the Institute of Public Administration of Canada. She is currently a member of the editorial boards of two academic journals: aboriginal policy studies, and Canadian Public Administration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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