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Wednesday, May 6, 2020
Stick handling to success or a lucky shot? Glen’s unexpected path to academia In this first conversation, SPPA Director Graeme Auld sat down with Professor Glen Toner to travel back to the years before Glen’s academic career. Take a listen. You’ll hear about how lessons learned from the hard work of competitive hockey helped... More
Friday, March 13, 2020
Public policy in a liberal democracy is the result of competition among political parties for the support of a diverse electorate. This ongoing contest takes place in the context of resource use in the conduct of both private and public life. A full understanding of what governments do must therefore incorporate the consequences of... More
Thursday, April 11, 2019
In a country as vast as Canada, the distance between communities and policy making can seem immense and insurmountable. For Professor Katherine Graham, this perceived and real distance has been an animating concern for her long-term research agenda. She has sought to work with communities across Canada to empower them to have a voice... More
Friday, March 22, 2019
Why do physicians choose to leave interdisciplinary primary care teams? Primary care is a critical feature of health-care systems around the world. In recent years, many jurisdictions have sought to complement the work of family physicians with integrated teams that offer the potential to improve care for patients. The idea is that when physicians... More
Wednesday, March 6, 2019
Our digital age has brought with it calls for governments to get with the times, to open up, to be more agile and savvy in the way they generate, use and share data. These pressures, and what should be done about them, are at the heart of Professor Amanda Clarke’s just published book Opening... More
Friday, September 28, 2018
For the first fall installment of SPPA Audio Files, Director Graeme Auld spoke with Professor Susan Phillips about her recent article in Canadian Public Administration – Dancing with giraffes: Why philanthropy matters for public management. Professor Phillips is a leading expert on the nonprofit and philanthropic sectors, and she has been the... More
Friday, August 17, 2018
SPPA Director Graeme Auld sat down with Professor James Meadowcroft to talk about his recent article in the journal Canadian Public Policy. “Let’s Get this Transition Moving!” argues that we ought to think about climate change not as a question of targets but more as a long, and ongoing, transition that will move us from our current... More
Thursday, April 19, 2018
Please join SPPA Director Graeme Auld as he interviews faculty member Lisa Mills on her research, published recently in the book The Limits of Trust: The Millennium Development Goals, Maternal Health, and Health Policy in Mexico, which investigates the reasons why Mexico did not meet the Millennium Development Goal of reducing maternal... More
Thursday, March 1, 2018
Please join SPPA Director Graeme Auld as he interviews faculty member Leslie Pal on his research, published in the chapter "Public Administration in a Globalized World" in Issues in Canadian Governance, edited by Jonathan Craft and Amanda Clarke. https://soundcloud.com/user-829234917/leslie-pal-public-administration-in-a-globalized-world Issues... More
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