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Friday, May 19, 2023
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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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