Archives: PhD

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

Monday, October 16, 2023

Antoine Genest-Grégoire appointed Assistant Professor at Université de Sherbrooke

  Congratulations to SPPA's  Antoine Genest-Gregoire, who was appointed as Assistant Professor to Université de Sherbrooke’s Department of Taxation on August 31st 2023, the same day he also successfully defended his PhD thesis. Dr. Genest-Gregoire is now teaching tax policy to students of the Masters in Taxation program and has also been... More

Tuesday, September 5, 2023

Christopher Dougherty: Receives Honorable Mention in ARNOVA awards.

We are pleased to share that Christopher Dougherty, SPPA PhD student, received an Honorable Mention for ARNOVA's new Lester M. Salamon Memorial Award for Promising PhD Proposal in Nonprofit and Voluntary Action Research for his PhD proposal: To What Extent is the Canadian Charitable Sector a Politically Expressive Sector?   Congratulations... More

Tuesday, February 14, 2023

Brendan Haley: PhD in Public Policy 2015

I am an alumnus of the PhD in Public Policy program at Carleton University. I currently am the Director of Policy Research for Efficiency Canada, a research and advocacy organization for an energy-efficient economy based at Carleton University. I am also recently an adjunct research professor at Carleton’s School of Public Policy and... More

Tuesday, January 17, 2023

SPPA Adjunct Research Prof and PhD Alum Brendan Haley Talks to CBC about Reducing Household Emissions

Agents of change A small neighbourhood in Toronto has built a program to help residents reduce their household emissions. Could their grassroots approach become a template for the rest of the country? By Andre Mayer Jan. 16, 2023 On a snow-flecked Sunday afternoon in mid-December, Paul Dowsett gathered a group of neighbours in his... More

Friday, January 13, 2023

PhD in Public Policy

By Liam Vaillancourt At Carleton University, you will find a unique PhD program in the public policy heart of the nation. The SPPA PhD in Public Policy combines extensive research with cutting-edge public policy. Currently, Canada faces pressing policy issues such as Indigenous self-governance, sustainable energy and healthcare. The skills you... More

Wednesday, December 7, 2022

PhD Candidate Lisa Halpern and Profs. Susan Phillips and Nathan Grasse Publish in Canadian Public Policy 

PhD candidate Lisa Halpern, Professor Susan Phillips and Associate Professor Nathan Grasse published an article titled “Non-Profit Long-Term Care in Ontario: How Financially Robust is the System?” in a special issue of Canadian Public Policy on Pensions, Retirement, Longevity, and Long-Term Care. Guest Editors’ Introduction “Several... More

Wednesday, November 30, 2022

Antoine Genest-Grégoire, PhD in Public Policy

I came to the PhD in Public Policy hoping to kickstart an academic career. I did some research as an undergraduate in economics (at UQAM) and during my Master's in Public Administration (at ENAP), but I wasn’t sure if I would thrive in research or in policy. I joined the chaire de recherche en... More

Tuesday, November 29, 2022

PhD Candidate Antoine Genest-Grégoire: Research Paper in La Presse

A recent La Presse article on the possible implementation of soda taxes in Quebec referenced a research paper by SPPA PhD candidate Antoine Genest-Grégoire. Taxer, oui, mais taxer bien STÉPHANIE BÉRUBÉ LA PRESSE On parle de taxer les boissons sucrées au Québec depuis fort longtemps. Si longtemps que plusieurs pays et territoires ont dans... More

Monday, November 14, 2022

PhD in Public Policy Graduate: Ian Bron

Ian Bron graduated with a PhD in Public Policy at the convocation ceremony on November 12. "I valued my time at SPPA, making new friends and colleagues, and am very grateful to the academic and administrative staff." Bron defended his PhD dissertation titled Square Peg in a Round Hole? Three Case Studies into Institutional... More

Thursday, November 10, 2022

Emma Neale: PhD in Public Policy

My background is in economics where I studied applied economics as my undergrad and subsequently continued on to do my master’s in economics — both at Queen’s University. My academic background drives my passion for combining economics with social and technical knowledge, which is sometimes overlooked in pure economics. This is why I joined... More

Tuesday, September 13, 2022

PhD Candidate Ian Bron Writes in the Conversation about Whistleblowing Laws

A former whistleblower explains the dangers of Canada’s feeble whistleblowing laws By Ian Bron This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons licence. All photos provided by The Conversation from various sources. Canada has had whistleblowing laws since 2007, when the federal government’s Public Servants... More

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