Archives: Faculty and Instructors

Friday, March 1, 2024

What is a Territory?

As part of our celebration of 80 years of Public Administration, we are sharing Research Summaries each month highlighting some of SPPA’s broad-ranging research. Here is this month’s Research Summary:   What is a Territory? SPPA faculty member Jerald Sabin delves into this question in his recent paper by comparing Canadian and American... More

Wednesday, February 28, 2024

Mehdi Ammi and Antoine Dedewanou on the value of public health expenditures in Social Science & Medicine

Public health operates in the shadow. Surveilling and preventing disease, as well as promoting and protecting health are the missions of public health, but these missions result in outcomes mostly unobserved: diseases and deaths that are avoided. For these reasons, only a small fraction of health expenditures is allocated to public health.... More

Friday, February 23, 2024

New Policy Options paper calls for greater discussion on ethics in government

A newly released article by SPPA Professor, Robert Shepherd, and ENAP & SPPA Adjunct Professor, Daniel Caron, comments on the recent Report to the Clerk on Values and Ethics in Government. It provides several explanations as to how ethics is shifting in government, and that much greater attention must be given to a substantive... More

Thursday, February 22, 2024

“Seeking Social Democracy” on Canadian non-fiction Bestseller list

Ed Broadbent's book, "Seeking Social Democracy", co-authored with SPPA's Frances Abele debuted on the Canadian non-fiction bestseller list earlier this month. Toronto Star bestsellers for the week ending Feb. 7, 2024 By Sarah Murdoch (Toronto Star) Trending “Seeking Social Democracy: Seven Decades in the Fight for Equality,” published in... More

Thursday, February 15, 2024

Learning from positive deviants in fisheries

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

Wednesday, February 7, 2024

Robert Shepherd co-authors “Smarter Government for Turbulent Times”

SPPA Professor Robert Shepherd co-authors report with Evert Lindquist "Smarter Government for Turbulent Times", calling for strategic spending reviews by Federal Government.  Published by the C.D. Howe Institute, February 2024. ISBN 978-1-77881-016-9; ISSN 0824-8001 (print); ISSN 1703-0765 (online) C.D. Howe Press Release (February 6, 2024): Six... More

Thursday, February 1, 2024

Mehdi Ammi examines the impact of doctors personalities on patient care

As part of our celebration of 80 years of Public Administration, we are sharing Research Summaries each month highlighting some of SPPA’s broad-ranging research. Here is this month’s Research Summary: Personality differences between doctors and patients can affect treatment outcomes. Through an observational study using two nationally... More

Wednesday, January 24, 2024

Anna Kopec examines policy feedback & research methods with marginalized populations

Anna Kopec raises vital questions of theory development and research designs involving marginalized populations in her recent paper Policy Feedback & Research Methods: How Qualitative Research Designs With Marginalized Groups Inform Theory.  Published in the International Journal of Qualitative Methods, Vol 22, Nov 2023... More

Friday, January 19, 2024

SPPA welcomes Jessica Parish!

We are delighted to announce Dr. Jessica Parish  has joined the School's faculty as of January 1, 2024 as SPPA Assistant Professor, and will be teaching courses on local and urban governance and sustainability. Prior to joining the SPPA Faculty, Jessica was a Marie Curie International Fellow at the Center for Urban Research on... More

Tuesday, January 9, 2024

Innovative Solar-Powered Heating Technology Holds Promise for Remote Northern Communities

SPPA Professor Stephan Schott is part of an interdisciplinary group of researchers at Carleton University who are working to harness the power of chemistry to make northern heating more practical. Excerpts from Carleton Newsroom article by Ty Burke ___ Heating buildings in the far north is a major challenge, and it isn’t just because... More

Monday, January 8, 2024

Environmental Impact Assessments in Global South: Lessons from a Brazilian Mining Case

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:   How effective are environmental impact assessment processes in the Global South? Pedro Bigolin Neto and SPPA Associate Professor... More

Friday, December 15, 2023

Carleton leads discussion on Artificial Intelligence (AI) Governance

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

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