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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

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

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

Tuesday, August 22, 2023

Call for Evaluation Projects!

Does your team have an evaluation-related problem it’s trying to answer? Have your project examined by some of the brightest evaluation students in the country, under the supervision of our DPPE faculty.  https://carleton.ca/sppa/dppe-project-proposal/ SPPA’s Graduate Diploma in Public Policy and Program Evaluation (DPPE) program proudly... 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

Wednesday, June 14, 2023

Liban Abokor: Honorary Degree Recipient

Congratulations to SPPA School Fellow Liban Abokor who was awarded the degree of Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, at Carleton University's Spring Convocation.    ... More

Monday, June 12, 2023

Congratulations to all our SPPA Graduates!

Carleton University is holding Spring Convocation June 12-16.  SPPA is excited to celebrate our 2023 SPPA graduates who will be crossing the stage this week! Each Convocation ceremony will be live-streamed and digital recording will be posted approximately 2-3 business days after the ceremony for viewing.  Please see the Carleton Convocation... More

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