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Wednesday, December 13, 2023

Alexandra Mallett talks with CBC on COP28 and climate crisis

SPPA's Alexandra Mallett provides analysis on CBC Radio program Blue Sky, episode "Is the world buying Premier Scott Moe's sustainability messaging at COP28?" aired Dec 11, 2023. Listen to interview: Premier Scott Moe is marketing Saskatchewan as sustainable because we have the food, fuel and fertilizer the world needs, but how true are the... More

Tuesday, December 12, 2023

Marc-Andre Gagnon’s op-ed debunks misconceptions on Pharmacare

Marc-Andre Gagnon’s op-ed in La Presse ( Penser l’assurance médicaments pour l’intérêt de la population , Dec 6, 2023) debunks some misconceptions about drug coverage and explains that Pharmacare should be based on the interests of the population, not on the interest of private insurance companies. “In a nutshell, [with the proposal of... More

Friday, December 8, 2023

Adegboyega Ojo: Building confidence and trust in Ireland’s National Maternity Services Workforce -What matters most and how?

Trustworthy, equitable, and high-quality maternity care requires ongoing development of interpersonal skills within the maternity services professional workforce particularly in caring for younger women (under 29 years) and those with a disability SPPA's Adegboyega Ojo is lead author on Building confidence and trust in Ireland's National Maternity... More

Thursday, December 7, 2023

Governing AI Through Ethical Standards

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

Tuesday, December 5, 2023

Mehmet Akif Demircioglu studies of turnover intention of civil servants, Bhutan

SPPA Assistant Professor Mehmet Akif Demircioglu and Assel Mussagulova (Signapore University of Technology and Design) recently published "What affects the turnover intention of civil servants: Evidence from Bhutan"  in the Australian Journal of Public Administration, Volume 82, Issue 3, Pages 325 - 345 September 2023. Abstract Research utilising... More

Tuesday, December 5, 2023

Vivian Hoffmann co-authors new paper examining drinking water contamination risk in Ethiopia

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

James Meadowcroft- Governing the net-zero transition: Strategy, policy, and politics

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

Nathan Grasse elected to the NACC Board

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

Announcing the launch of the Christopher Stoney Student Experience Fund

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

Graeme Auld: Conservation, uncertainty and intellectual humility

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

Monday, November 13, 2023

SPPA’s Alexandra Mallett featured on CBC’s Spark discussing Electricity Grids and Public Policy

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

Idle no more, but in what direction is Poilievre running on Indigenous policy?

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

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