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Thursday, October 26, 2023

Community Perspectives on Inuit Country Food Insecurity in Gjoa Haven, Nunavut

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

SPPA Professors Demircioglu and Meadowcroft make list of World’s Top 2% Scientists

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

Graeme Auld: published new term “Path Dependence” in Dictionary of Ecological Economics

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

Katherine Minich appointed as IPA Supervisor

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

Vivian Hofmann: Self-selection versus population-based sampling for evaluation of an agronomy training program in Uganda

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

Thursday, July 20, 2023

Vivian Hoffmann wins Best Article in Agricultural Economics

Congratulations to Associate Professor  Vivian Hoffmann along with co-author Sarah Wairimu Kariuki who have won " Best Article in Agricultural Economics 2022"  by the International Association of Agricultural Economics (IAAE) for their article  "Can information drive demand for safer food? Impact of brand-specific recommendations and test... More

Monday, July 17, 2023

CAPSI and Carleton University intensify their partnership

From Wits Business School News Post July 5, 2023 News - Wits Business School (wbs.ac.za) Through an ongoing partnership with Wits Business School (WBS) and the Canadian based Carleton University, the Centre on African Philanthropy and Social Investment (CAPSI) has offered a joint elective on Philanthropy and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)... More

Wednesday, July 12, 2023

Rekindling the Fire: Carleton Research Project hosts gathering for First Nations pursuing self-government

By Ben Sylvestre “Right now, as we talk, the babies that are being born today are the eighth generation under the Indian Act, and we need to free ourselves from that.” - Satsan (Herb George) The president of the Centre for First Nations Governance (CFNG) and project co-director of the $2.5 million SSHRC-funded Rebuilding... More

Monday, July 10, 2023

Alex Mallett talks to the Globe and Mail

SPPA faculty member Alexandra Mallett talks to the Globe and Mail about government approach aimed at growing the clean energy economy in the ‘Big Idea’ section of the June 2023 the Report on Business magazine, titled "Money for nothing?". Mallett finds herself thinking about whether the government’s appetite for the blockbuster deal—not... More

Wednesday, July 5, 2023

Rob Shepherd: Spending reviews and the Government of Canada: From episodic to institutionalized capabilities and repertoires

By Evert Lindquist and Robert P. Shepherd First published: 19 June 2023, in IPAC's Canadian Public Administration Journal https://doi.org/10.1111/capa.12532 Abstract Following surges of spending and staff hiring to address the COVID-19 pandemic, the Trudeau government announced a strategic policy review in the 2022 Budget to secure savings of $6... More

Friday, June 30, 2023

SPPA Retirement Celebration for Frances Abele, Calum Carmichael, Leslie Pal, Saul Schwartz, Glen Toner and Stan Winer

An emotional SPPA Celebration! On Thursday June 22, SPPA celebrated six retiring faculty members : Frances Abele, Calum Carmichael, Leslie Pal, Saul Schwartz, Glen Toner and Stan Winer.  Over 70 alumni, faculty, staff and special guests, including former Dean Andre Plourde who provided opening remarks, were among the guests who gathered for the... More

Friday, June 23, 2023

Amanda Clarke: Who’s going to finally fix federal public service management?

While we all agree on the serious problems that exist, no government – Conservative or Liberal – has ever done much to address them. by Amanda Clarke Originally published by Policy Options magazine, June 12, 2023 also published in the Ottawa Citizen, June 20, 2023 In Canada, we are exceptionally good at identifying what... More

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