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Friday, July 12, 2024

SPPA Student Chenai Wamambo takes home Silver in National Student Award

The Canadian Association of Programs in Public Administration (CAPPA) and the Institute of Public Administration in Canada (IPAC) announced the 2024 National Student and Thought Leadership Awards winners. Chenai Wamambo, Master of Public Policy and Administration in the School of Public Policy and Administration, won Silver for her research: "Are... More

Wednesday, June 26, 2024

The impact of sense of belonging on health: Canadian evidence

High-income countries are increasingly described as experiencing a growing sense of detachment. But does belonging matter? Abstract In their new paper, SPPA Associate Professor Mehdi Ammi, Adjunct Research Professor Antoine Dedewanou and MPPA alumni Ian Allan demonstrate that belonging matters a lot for health. In fact, they show that a stronger... More

Thursday, June 20, 2024

SPPA Scholars’ Work Cited in New Parliamentary Budget Office Report

A new report by the Parliamentary Budget Office cites and is informed by SPPA Professor Emeritus Saul Schwartz, PhD Graduate and Director of the Political Management Program Jennifer Robson, and PhD Graduate and Assistant Professor at the University of Sherbrooke Antoine Genest-Grégoire. Their work was also cited in a Globe and Mail Editorial on... More

Wednesday, June 5, 2024

Elisabeth Gilmore: Equitable Climate Adaptation Pathways for the Precariously Housed

Environmental Engineering and Public Policy researcher Elisabeth Gilmore's project Equitable Climate Adaptation Pathways for the Precariously Housed has has been awarded $1.5 million from the International Joint Initiative for Research in Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation, a stream of the federal government's New Frontiers in Research Fund... More

Tuesday, June 4, 2024

Nathan Grasse: Gender pay gap for executives of US charities

SPPA Associate Professor Nathan Grasse has co-authored a new study focusing on the gender pay gap affecting two types of female executives in US charities: executive directors and chief financial officers. It uses a novel identification strategy focused on executive hires to measure the ipay differences created by effects that are... More

Tuesday, May 14, 2024

Parisa Vafaie & Anna Kopec: Questions persist as Ottawa prepares Citizenship Act amendments

In their recent publication, Questions persist as Ottawa prepares Citizenship Act amendments, MPPA student Parisa Vafaie and Assistant Professor Anna Kopec argue questions remain and more transparency is needed as Ottawa prepares amendments to the Citizenship Act. Overlooked for too long, more than 3,500 stateless people without access to... More

Monday, April 15, 2024

Anna Kopec examines how homelessness policies interact to influence political participation

In her new paper, SPPA's Anna Kopec considers how policy characteristics interact to influence the political participation of individuals experiencing homelessness in two cases: Toronto and Melbourne. Drawing on over 100 qualitative interviews Kopec offers important theoretical contributions to policy feedback theory and our understanding of how... More

Monday, April 8, 2024

Sounding the Alarm : Advocating for Whistleblower Rights in Canada

“Whistleblowing is a mechanism for accountability. It tells you who is responsible for issues, and who should fix them"  - Paloma Raggo, Professor, School of Public Policy and Administration and Director of the Charity Insights Canada Project By Ty Burke Whistleblowers shed light on problems that would otherwise remain in the shadows, alerting... More

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

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

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

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