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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
Thursday, June 6, 2024
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
Thursday, February 15, 2024
SPPA's Dr. Laurenne Schiller and Professor Graeme Auld, along with co-authors Gregory Britten and Boris Worm use "bright spot" analysis to better understand successful governance of fish populations in their newly published paper "Learning from positive deviants in fisheries". The authors suggest that a positive deviant approach, already used in... More
Friday, December 15, 2023
Benjamin Faveri and Graeme Auld publish a background paper Informing Possible Futures for the use of Third-Party Audits in AI Regulations, that provided the groundwork for Carleton’s recently held workshop on the potential role of third-party audits in the regulation of harmful AI. Carleton then hosted a public panel that followed on November... More
Thursday, December 7, 2023
As part of our celebration of 80 years of Public Administration, we will be sharing Research Summaries each month highlighting some of SPPA's broad-ranging research. Here is this month's Research Summary: Understanding the directions ethical AI governance will require assessing the dynamic relationship between private actors and public... More
Monday, November 13, 2023
In a new paper, SPPA Professor Graeme Auld and co-authors consider how fostering intellectual humility in conservation decision-making processes might reveal new ways of handling and navigating uncertainties about how best to tackle conservation problems. Conservation, uncertainty and intellectual humility Environmental Conservation, Vol 50 Issue... More
Wednesday, September 13, 2023
SPPA Professor Graeme Auld and his colleague Professor Stefan Renckens (University of Toronto) published an entry in the Dictionary of Ecological Economics: Terms for the New Millennium. Their entry discusses the term path dependence, which captures situations where early chance or choice events constrain future options.... More
Wednesday, May 31, 2023
SPPA Post Doctoral Fellow Laurenne Schiller and Professor Graeme Auld along with co-authors Megan Bailey, Hekia Bodwitch and Hussain Sinan published "Evaluating the roles and reach of philanthropic foundations in sustainability efforts for tuna" in Conservation Science and Practice, Volume 5, Issue 5, May 2023. DOI 10.1111/csp2.12751 Abstract... More
Wednesday, March 1, 2023
By Graeme Auld, Amanda Clarke, Benjamin Faveri Private auditors provide third-party conformity assessments against principles, practices, standards, and legislation. Big names in this field include accounting firms like EY and Deloitte and technical inspection firms like Bureau Veritas and Intertek. These firms already play a significant role in... More
Monday, February 13, 2023
The public discussion about artificial intelligence centres not only on its ubiquity, but also on the lack of governance over its use. A new workshop intends to “bring together experts from government, academia, private industry, and regulatory agencies to inform policy discussions that are ongoing and have lasting effects on the risks AI... More
Thursday, January 5, 2023
SPPA Postdoctoral Fellow Laurenne Schiller and Professor Graeme Auld have published a paper, "Increasing industry involvement in international tuna fishery negotiations," in One Earth that looks at the evolving participation of industry in the annual meetings of the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission, one of five Regional Fisheries... More
Wednesday, October 5, 2022
Has Patagonia defined a new gold standard for business responsibility? By Graeme Auld and Janina Grabs Patagonia’s founder Yvon Chouinard made headlines recently with the decision to give his family’s $3 billion company, and its future profits, to the fight against climate change. In his words, “Earth is now the company’s only... More
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