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Friday, May 19, 2023

SPPA receives three FPA Excellence Awards

FPA Excellence Award Winners 2023 The Faculty of Public Affairs announced its annual excellence awards on May 16, 2023 . “These awards recognize the outstanding contributions of FPA faculty members, staff and instructors in the areas of education, research and outreach,” said Brenda O’Neill, Dean of the Faculty of Public Affairs. “We are... More

Friday, May 19, 2023

Kristen Pue & Anna Kopec examine democracy promotion by Canadian homeless shelters

Kristen Pue and Anna Kopec's paper “Do Service-providing Nonprofits Contribute to Democratic Inclusion?: Analyzing Democracy Promotion by Canadian Homeless Shelters” was published in the Canadian Journal of Nonprofit and Social Economy Research, 14(1), 1-29 (2023). DOI: https://doi.org/10.29173/cjnser615 Abstract Nonprofits are key social... More

Friday, May 19, 2023

Alison Smith & Anna Kopec: Mapping Homelessness Research in Canada

Alison Smith (University of Toronto) and SPPA  Associate Professor Anna Kopec have published the paper “Mapping Homelessness Research in Canada” in the American Review of Canadian Studies, 53(1), 42-62 (2023). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/02722011.2023.2170155 Abstract What is known about homelessness in Canada? In this article, we present... More

Friday, May 19, 2023

Anna Kopec: Critical Junctures as Complex Processes: Examining Mechanisms of Policy Change and Path Dependence in the Canadian Pandemic Response to Homelessness

Anna Kopec's paper “Critical Junctures as Complex Processes: Examining Mechanisms of Policy Change and Path Dependence in the Canadian Pandemic Response to Homelessness” was published in the Journal of Public Policy, 1-21 (2023). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0143814X23000053 Abstract Policy change is not an instantaneous or linear process. In... More

Friday, May 5, 2023

Mehdi Ammi: $500,000 New Frontiers in Research Fund on Modelling Pandemics

Associate Professor Mehdi Ammi is a co-principal investigator on a new $500,000 New Frontiers in Research Fund (NFRF) focused on improving the modelling of COVID-19 pandemic and its recovery, and more generally uncertainty quantification for pandemics. This interdisciplinary, high-risk/high-reward and fast-breaking research project is led by... More

Wednesday, May 3, 2023

Marc-André Gagnon: What did the scientific literature learn from internal company documents in the pharmaceutical industry? A scoping review

  Marc-André Gagnon and Miaoran Dong's paper "What did the scientific literature learn from internal company documents in the pharmaceutical industry? A scoping review" was published in Cochrane Evidence Synthesis and Methods, Vol 1, Issue 3, May 2023, https://doi/.org/10.1002/cesm.12011  Abstract Objective To identify all scientific papers... More

Wednesday, May 3, 2023

Lisa Mills: Getting closure? Mining rehabilitation reform in Queensland and Western Australia

SPPA Professor Lisa Mills' paper "Getting closure? Mining rehabilitation reform in Queensland and Western Australia" was published in The Extractive Industries and Society, vol 11, September 2022. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.exis.2022.101097  Highlights Mining legacies arising from orphaned and abandoned mines a global issue. Reform to address... More

Wednesday, May 3, 2023

Alexandra Mallett: Public participation in environmental impact assessment processes through various channels – can you listen to us now? Lessons from a Brazilian mining case

Pedro Biolin Neto and SPPA Associate Professor Alexandra Mallett's paper Public participation in environmental impact assessment processes through various channels – Can you listen to us now? Lessons from a Brazilian mining case was recently published in Extractive Industries and Society, Volume 13, March 2023, 101186, as part of a special... More

Wednesday, April 26, 2023

Mehdi Ammi: How Does Medical Doctors’ Personality Compare to Patients and Highly Educated Workers?

  Associate Professor Mehdi Ammi, jointly with colleagues from the University of Queensland (Jonas Fooken) and the University of Melbourne (Jill Klein and Tony Scott), recently published a peer-reviewed article titled “Does doctors’ personality differ from those of patients, the highly educated and other caring professions? An... More

Wednesday, April 26, 2023

Mehmet Akif Demiricioglu: Editorial Board Appointment

Congratulations to SPPA Assistant Professor Mehmet Akif Demircioglu, who has been appointed to the editorial board of the Review of Public Personnel Administration (ROPPA). The ROPPA publishes articles that reflect timely, rigorous scholarship on human resource management in public service organizations, that reflect the varied approaches used in... More

Wednesday, April 19, 2023

Christopher Stoney: Policy-making, policy-taking, and policy-shaping: Local government responses to the COVID-19 pandemic

  We are pleased to share a final paper of the late SPPA Professor Christopher Stoney "Policy-making, policy-taking, and policy-shaping: Local government responses to the COVID-19 pandemic"  published posthumously in the Australian Journal of Public Administration, March 30, 2023 https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8500.12585 . It is a timely paper... More

Tuesday, April 4, 2023

Congratulations to SPPA Prof. Nathan Grasse on ASPA Nonprofit Section’s Best Paper Award!

SPPA Associate Professor Nathan Grasse has won the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA) Section on Nonprofits Best Paper Award along with co-authors Elizabeth Searing and Daniel Neely for their work on the associations between government grants and the donations received by charities. Their findings, which suggest government support... More

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