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Tuesday, July 7, 2020

CPoPP’s 6th Edition Now Available in Digital and Print

Thank you to everyone that was able to join us in celebrating the launch of Carleton Perspectives on Public Policy (CPoPP)’s 6th Edition Journal! We are so grateful to have been able to connect with students, faculty, and alumni as our four authors Ian Crump, Meredith Webb, Daniel Ribi and Sierra Bilton shared their... More

Monday, July 6, 2020

Congratulations to SPPA’s PhD in Public Policy Graduates!

Sylvie Babadjide's research interests relate to international development policy, water resource management, philanthropy and gender. Her areas of expertise are International development and natural resource management. Her recent work involves studying the lack of access to water in developing countries and the use of data in nonprofit... More

Monday, July 6, 2020

DPE Lecturer Jane Whynot Awarded the 2020 Service to the Canadian Evaluation Society 

The team of the Graduate Diploma in Public Policy and Program Evaluation (DPE) of the School of Public Policy and Administration congratulates Jane Whynot, lecturer in the DPE, for recently being awarded the 2020 Service to the Canadian Evaluation Society (CES) honour. Jane Whynot (Ph.D.c) has long standing roots with Carleton University's DPE... More

Monday, July 6, 2020

DPE Lecturer Benoît Gauthier: Fellow of the Canadian Evaluation Society

The team of the Graduate Diploma in Public Policy and Program Evaluation (DPE) of the School of Public Policy and Administration congratulates Benoît Gauthier, lecturer in the DPE, for recently being made a Fellow of the Canadian Evaluation Society (CES). Benoît has been involved with the Diploma for four years now and studied at... More

Tuesday, June 23, 2020

MPPA Alumnus David Thibodeau on his Canada Games Experience and Advancing 2SLGBTQ+ Awareness in Sport

From Canada Games: The Next Generation in Canadian Leaders With inclusion being a core value at Canada Games, we recognize the importance of creating an environment that welcomes and accepts everyone who attends. We are thankful to alumni like David Thibodeau, who competed in Swimming for Team New Brunswick in the 2013 Canada Games,... More

Friday, June 19, 2020

Congratulations to PhD Public Policy Student Antoine Genest-Grégoire – Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship Recipient

By Lin Moody Antoine Genest-Grégoire, a Carleton PhD student in Public Policy, is one of three Carleton University students to have won a 2020 Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship (click on SSHRC tab). This extremely prestigious scholarship is awarded to Canadian PhD students who conduct exceptional research. It is valued at $50,000 per year for... More

Tuesday, June 16, 2020

Mehdi Ammi Receives Funding from CIHR to Investigate Impact of Changes to Canada’s Public Health System

Carleton University researcher Mehdi Ammi in the School of Public Policy and Administration has received $200,000 from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) to support an investigation into how changes to the public health system over the years have impacted the health of Canadians. “CIHR funding enables Carleton to extend its... More

Wednesday, June 3, 2020

Antoine Genest-Gregoire: A Survey of Canadians’ Tax Knowledge

New research by SPPA PhD in Public Policy student Antoine Genest-Gregoire and colleagues from Université de Sherbrooke looks at what Canadians know, and ignore, about taxes. Close to 3000 Canadians took a short quiz about the taxation of different sources of income as well as the progressivity of income tax. Success rates were average at... More

Monday, June 1, 2020

Risk, Resilience, and Recovery: A Path Forward to Canadian Charities in a Post-COVID-19 World

Carleton University COVID-19 Rapid Research Response Grants SPPA Grant Recipients: Susan Phillips, Nathan Grasse, and Paloma Raggo, as well as Elizabeth Searing from the University of Texas – Dallas. The charitable sector is as important to Canada’s economy as the extractive or manufacturing industries, and Canadians rely on charities to... More

Monday, June 1, 2020

Statement on Recent Racial Violence in U.S. and Canada

From the Carleton Newsroom... As a university of national and international reach and connection, we are deeply mindful of the tragic and horrendous police-involved events that have recently taken place in the U.S. and Canada. We understand that these events are not isolated but are situated within intergenerational memories and histories of... More

Friday, May 22, 2020

Energy Road Map MoCreebec Eeyoud Enlists Carleton Students

By Ellen Tsaprailis Photos by Joshua Russell The MoCreebec Eeyoud First Nation in Moose Factory, Ont., wants to reduce energy costs and take ownership of power consumption. Carleton University students Joshua Russell and Keelia LaFreniere are helping them figure out the best path forward. The two Sustainable Energy master’s students are... More

Thursday, May 21, 2020

James Meadowcroft is on National Task Force on Economic Recovery Post-COVID

By Sissi De Flaviis Carleton University’s James Meadowcroft, a political science and public policy and administration professor, is one of 14 members in a new task force designed to make recommendations to the Canadian government to build a clean and resilient economy post-COVID-19. Meadowcroft is an international specialist in sustainable... More

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