Archives: Research Themes

Thursday, October 3, 2024

Carleton and Ivey Foundation Create New Research Chair in Sustainability Transitions

Enabled by a generous donation of the Ivey Foundation and Rosamond Ivey, Carleton University is proud to announce the launch of the Rosamond Ivey Research Chair in Sustainability Transitions, which will be held by Professor Daniel Rosenbloom. This is the first chair explicitly dedicated to deepening scholarship and practice surrounding the rapidly... 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 6, 2024

Phillips & Dougherty: Nonprofit coalitions – recasting equity, engagement and effectiveness

SPPA's Susan Phillips and Christopher Dougherty newly published paper Nonprofit coalitions: recasting equity, engagement and effectiveness examines nonprofit advocacy coalitions. Abstract Nonprofit advocacy coalitions are a distinctive but poorly understood type of coalition. This study is the product of a rare opportunity to participate in... More

Thursday, June 6, 2024

AI Audit Objects, Credentialing, and the Race-to-the-Bottom: Three AI Auditing Challenges and A Path Forward

A major issue that remains to be figured out for AI governance is how potential third-party audits will be performed and overseen. This piece, written by Benjamin Faveri, Graeme Auld, and Stefan Renckens, reviews three current challenges to AI audits and presents thoughts on ways forward. AI Audit Objects, Credentialing, and the... More

Thursday, June 6, 2024

Mehdi Ammi: Political determinants of COVID-19 restrictions and vaccine rollouts: the case of regional elections in Italy and Spain

Political decisions have played a key role in the responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. This is the topic of a new paper by Associate Professor Mehdi Ammi and colleagues from Europe and Australia. Their paper investigates how political variables such as election and ideology affected the severity of the policy restrictions and the efficiency... 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, June 4, 2024

Alexandra Mallett speaks to CBC Sudbury on climate action

SPPA Associate Professor and Graduate Supervisor – MPP in Sustainable Energy and the Environment,  Alexandra Mallett speaks to CBC Sudbury about climate action at the municipal level. City of Greater Sudbury declared a climate emergency 5 years ago. It's not on track to meet its goals Northern Ontario city set a goal to reduce... More

Tuesday, June 4, 2024

Anna Kopec: Lived Expertise in Homelessness Policy and Governance

Lived Expertise in Homelessness Policy and Governance In this new article, SPPA Assistant Professor Anna Kopec and co-author Alison Smith (University of Toronto) bring together literature on democratic participation, policymaking, and lived experience to consider the inclusion of lived expertise in Canadian homelessness policy and governance. They... 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

Thursday, April 11, 2024

Marc-André Gagnon’s new paper underscores institutional limitations in reporting and publication of drug trial results in Canada

SPPA Associate Professor Marc-André Gagnon is co-author, with Joel Lexchin and Carleton students Bleu Miraoran Dong and Aravind Ramanathan, on a recent paper published in the International Journal of Health Policy and Management (IJHPM) that underscore the existing institutional limitations in ensuring comprehensive reporting and publication of... More

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