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Thursday, April 2, 2020
Professor Robert Shepherd and Professor Katherine Graham have just edited and contributed to a special issue of Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation that focuses on evaluation in Indigenous contexts. The issue includes seven papers that focus on Indigenous evaluation theory, practice, and implementation in various policy contexts including... More
Tuesday, March 24, 2020
Renewable Energy Uptake in Urban Latin America, a book by SPPA Prof. Alexandra Mallett was recently published as part of Routledge's Explorations in Energy Studies (REENS). This book explores the perplexing question of how to increase sustainable energy technology use in the developing world, and specifically focuses on two megacities within Latin... More
Monday, March 16, 2020
At a time when public health systems are under stress with the covid-19 outbreak, Prof. Mehdi Ammi successfully obtained as Principal Investigator a $200,000 CIHR Catalyst Grant to study the impact of financing and structural transformation of public health systems. Together with an interdisciplinary team of researchers and policymakers from... More
Friday, March 13, 2020
The 23rd Annual SPPA Gala on Friday, March 13, 2020 at the Canadian Nature Museum has unfortunately been... More
Public policy in a liberal democracy is the result of competition among political parties for the support of a diverse electorate. This ongoing contest takes place in the context of resource use in the conduct of both private and public life. A full understanding of what governments do must therefore incorporate the consequences of... More
Thursday, March 5, 2020
Prof. Anil Varughese spoke to Alan Neal about the factors that led to the violent protests in India which began on February 23 and lasted many days. More than 46 people, mostly Muslim, have died in religious riots in New Delhi. Listen to the interview... More
Thursday, February 13, 2020
From Graduate Studies News... Creating and executing renewable energy plans and projects involves both policymakers and engineers. Nathalin Moy, a Master of Arts student in Sustainable Energy, is exploring how to improve the public engagement process for renewable energy projects to come. The Sustainable Energy Engineering and Policy program is a... More
Wednesday, February 12, 2020
Northern Public Affairs is a publication founded by SPPA PhD in Public Policy alumni Joshua Gladstone (Founding Editor, Co-Managing Editor) and Sheena Kennedy Dalseg (Founding Editor, Co-Managing Editor). SPECIAL ISSUE 2: SPECIAL ISSUE ON MODERN TREATY IMPLEMENTATION RESEARCH Message from the Land Claims Agreements Coalition Co-Chairs Message from... More
Professor Graeme Auld has just had an article published in a special issue of Organization and Environment that focuses on social movements and private environmental governance. The issue, edited by Thomas Lyon, includes paper that examine the turn to private forms of environmental governance from several disciplinary perspectives. Professor... More
Monday, February 10, 2020
By Jungroan Lin, PhD Candidate in Public Policy Professor Alexandra Mallett's work on public policy spans across multiple domains from technology and innovation to sustainable energy and environmental politics. Following her experience working for multiple departments in the federal government of Canada, she completed her PhD in Development... More
Monday, February 3, 2020
Professor Graeme Auld and his colleague, Stefan Renckens, have published a chapter in a newly released book Transnational Business Governance Interactions: Advancing Marginalized Actors and Enhancing Regulatory Quality. Their chapter examines a dataset of 312 audits performed against the standards of the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC), a... More
Friday, January 31, 2020
By Karen Kelly Photos by Bryan Gagnon Last summer, graduate student Jamie Desautels travelled to Gjoa Haven, Nunavut, an Inuit hamlet on King William Island above the Arctic Circle. She was there to conduct focus groups on the importance of “country food” in Inuit culture and collect survey data on preferences and food consumption... More
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