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Wednesday, July 17, 2024
Prof. Alexandra Mallet from the School of Public Policy & Administration, in collaboration with Prosanto Pal of The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) in New Delhi, is addressing the challenge of decarbonizing India's industrial sector, focusing on iron and steel production. Supported by the Shakti Sustainable Energy Foundation, their... More
Wednesday, July 10, 2024
The seventh cohort of SPPA’s Regulatory Governance Initiative celebrated graduation from the Career Development for Regulatory Professionals (CDRP) certificate program on May 16, 2024. SPPA’s Dr. Graeme Auld and Robert Slater, former Executive Director of the Regulatory Governance Initiative, joined the celebration. Delivered as a... More
Wednesday, June 26, 2024
High-income countries are increasingly described as experiencing a growing sense of detachment. But does belonging matter? Abstract In their new paper, SPPA Associate Professor Mehdi Ammi, Adjunct Research Professor Antoine Dedewanou and MPPA alumni Ian Allan demonstrate that belonging matters a lot for health. In fact, they show that a stronger... More
Thursday, June 20, 2024
A new report by the Parliamentary Budget Office cites and is informed by SPPA Professor Emeritus Saul Schwartz, PhD Graduate and Director of the Political Management Program Jennifer Robson, and PhD Graduate and Assistant Professor at the University of Sherbrooke Antoine Genest-Grégoire. Their work was also cited in a Globe and Mail Editorial on... More
Thursday, June 13, 2024
Abstract Since the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attacks, there has been significant debate about understanding the background of the violence. This article explores the necessity of contextualizing the events, emphasizing that understanding is not equivalent to justifying terrorism. Drawing on the insights of Ian S. Lustick and historical parallels with... More
Thursday, June 6, 2024
SPPA's Susan Phillips and Christopher Dougherty newly published paper Nonprofit coalitions: recasting equity, engagement and effectiveness examines nonprofit advocacy coalitions. Abstract Nonprofit advocacy coalitions are a distinctive but poorly understood type of coalition. This study is the product of a rare opportunity to participate in... More
A major issue that remains to be figured out for AI governance is how potential third-party audits will be performed and overseen. This piece, written by Benjamin Faveri, Graeme Auld, and Stefan Renckens, reviews three current challenges to AI audits and presents thoughts on ways forward. AI Audit Objects, Credentialing, and the... More
Political decisions have played a key role in the responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. This is the topic of a new paper by Associate Professor Mehdi Ammi and colleagues from Europe and Australia. Their paper investigates how political variables such as election and ideology affected the severity of the policy restrictions and the efficiency... More
Tuesday, June 4, 2024
SPPA Associate Professor Nathan Grasse has co-authored a new study focusing on the gender pay gap affecting two types of female executives in US charities: executive directors and chief financial officers. It uses a novel identification strategy focused on executive hires to measure the ipay differences created by effects that are... More
SPPA Associate Professor and Graduate Supervisor – MPP in Sustainable Energy and the Environment, Alexandra Mallett speaks to CBC Sudbury about climate action at the municipal level. City of Greater Sudbury declared a climate emergency 5 years ago. It's not on track to meet its goals Northern Ontario city set a goal to reduce... More
Tuesday, May 14, 2024
In their recent publication, Questions persist as Ottawa prepares Citizenship Act amendments, MPPA student Parisa Vafaie and Assistant Professor Anna Kopec argue questions remain and more transparency is needed as Ottawa prepares amendments to the Citizenship Act. Overlooked for too long, more than 3,500 stateless people without access to... More
SPPA Professor Susan Phillips was awarded the 2024 FPA Community Engagement Excellence Award at a special awards luncheon on Monday, May 13th by the Faculty of Public Affairs. The FPA Community Engagement Excellence Award recognizes FPA faculty members who have made an exceptional contribution to building or strengthening institutional... More
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