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Tuesday, December 5, 2023
Unsafe water is responsible for over a million deaths each year. Characterizing households’ access to water, sanitation and hygiene infrastructure is a critical first step toward addressing this problem SPPA Associate Professor Vivian Hoffmann is co-author on recent paper "Access to water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services and drinking... More
Monday, December 4, 2023
SPPA's James Meadowcroft and Daniel Rosenbloom (University of Toronto) recently published their paper Governing the net-zero transition: Strategy, policy, and politics in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (Volume 120, Issue 47, November 2023. DOI 10.1073/pnas.2207727120). Abstract This paper... More
Thursday, November 30, 2023
Congratulations to SPPA Associate Professor Nathan Grasse who has been elected to the Nonprofit Academic Centers Council (NACC) 2024 Board of Directors. The NACC is an international membership association comprised of academic centers or programs at accredited colleges and universities focused on the study of nonprofit/nongovernmental... More
Tuesday, November 21, 2023
We are pleased to announce the launch of the The Christopher Stoney Student Experience Fund. On the 80th Anniversary of the School of Public Policy and Administration, friends and colleagues of Chris Stoney created the fund in his honour to recognize his enthusiast, joyful and steadfast dedication to our SPPA students. Chris Stoney joined... 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
SPPA Associate Professor Alexandra Mallett was featured on the Nov 10, 2023 episode of Spark with Nora Young "20th Century tech still powers our 21th Century World" where she discussed what it will take to modernize and secure our aging electrical grid. Listen to episode... More
Friday, November 3, 2023
SPPA Distinguished Research Professor and Chancellor’s Professor Emerita Frances Abele, and SPPA Research Fellow Catherine MacQuarrie published an opinion piece in The Hill Times discussing Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre’s comments on Indigenous issues, titled Idle no more, but in what direction is Poilievre running on Indigenous... More
Thursday, October 26, 2023
As part of our celebration of 80 years of Public Administration, we will be sharing Research Summaries highlighting some of SPPA's broad-ranging research. Below is this month's Research summary. Community Perspectives on Inuit Country Food Insecurity in Gjoa Haven, Nunavut Country food - referring to traditional Inuit food - is deeply enrooted... More
Monday, October 16, 2023
Congratulations to SPPA Assistant Professor Mehmet Akif Demircioglu and SPPA Chancellor's Professor James Meadowcroft who appear of the list of the World's Top 2% Scientists published this month by Standford University. October 2023 data-update for "Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators" Published: 4 October... 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
Friday, August 25, 2023
We are very pleased to announce the appointment of Katherine Minich as the Indigenous Policy and Administration Program Supervisor. Congratulations Katherine! ... More
Monday, July 24, 2023
By Vivian Hoffmann Miki Khan Doan, Tomoko Harigaya Published online: 16 Jul 2023 Journal of Development Effectiveness https://doi.org/10.1080/19439342.2023.2236080 This is a methodological piece that describes a mechanism that allowed farmers to self-select into the study sample for a randomized controlled trial of agronomic training based on... More
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