Events There are no upcoming events scheduled at this time. News Tuesday, July 7, 2020CPoPP’s 6th Edition Now Available in Digital and PrintThank you to everyone that was able to join us in celebrating the launch of Carleton Perspectives on Public Policy (CPoPP)’s 6th Edition Journal! We are so grateful to have been able to connect with students, faculty, and alumni as our four authors Ian Crump, Meredith Webb, Daniel Ribi and Sierra Bilton shared their... MoreMonday, July 6, 2020Congratulations to SPPA’s PhD in Public Policy Graduates!Sylvie Babadjide's research interests relate to international development policy, water resource management, philanthropy and gender. Her areas of expertise are International development and natural resource management. Her recent work involves studying the lack of access to water in developing countries and the use of data in nonprofit... MoreMonday, July 6, 2020DPE Lecturer Jane Whynot Awarded the 2020 Service to the Canadian Evaluation Society The team of the Graduate Diploma in Public Policy and Program Evaluation (DPE) of the School of Public Policy and Administration congratulates Jane Whynot, lecturer in the DPE, for recently being awarded the 2020 Service to the Canadian Evaluation Society (CES) honour. Jane Whynot (Ph.D.c) has long standing roots with Carleton University's DPE... MoreMonday, July 6, 2020DPE Lecturer Benoît Gauthier: Fellow of the Canadian Evaluation SocietyThe team of the Graduate Diploma in Public Policy and Program Evaluation (DPE) of the School of Public Policy and Administration congratulates Benoît Gauthier, lecturer in the DPE, for recently being made a Fellow of the Canadian Evaluation Society (CES). Benoît has been involved with the Diploma for four years now and studied at... MoreThursday, July 2, 2020Jamie Desautels wins a Senate Medal for Outstanding Academic AchievementJamie Desautels is a recent graduate of the Master of Public Policy and Administration program. Given Jamie’s background in health sciences, she immediately took an interest in courses such as Health Policy, Health Economics and Global Health Policy. She also pursued co-op placements at Health Canada and the Public Health Agency of Canada where... MoreThursday, July 2, 2020Lavy Khoushinsky Awarded Zuhair A. Hassan Graduate ScholarshipCongratulations to MA in Sustainable Energy graduate Lavy (Leo) Khoushinsky who has been awarded the Zuhair A. Hassan Graduate Scholarship. This is a wonderful achievement that speaks to his hard work, dedication and scholastic excellence. We are all very proud of what Leo has done in his time with us and we look forward... MoreThursday, June 25, 2020Video: SPPA Virtual Celebration for 2020 Graduates... MoreThursday, June 25, 2020Patrice Smith, Dean of the Faculty of Graduate and Postgraduate Affairs, Congratulates Graduates... MoreTuesday, June 23, 2020MPPA Alumnus David Thibodeau on his Canada Games Experience and Advancing 2SLGBTQ+ Awareness in SportFrom Canada Games: The Next Generation in Canadian Leaders With inclusion being a core value at Canada Games, we recognize the importance of creating an environment that welcomes and accepts everyone who attends. We are thankful to alumni like David Thibodeau, who competed in Swimming for Team New Brunswick in the 2013 Canada Games,... MoreFriday, June 19, 2020Congratulations to PhD Public Policy Student Antoine Genest-Grégoire – Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship RecipientBy Lin Moody Antoine Genest-Grégoire, a Carleton PhD student in Public Policy, is one of three Carleton University students to have won a 2020 Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship (click on SSHRC tab). This extremely prestigious scholarship is awarded to Canadian PhD students who conduct exceptional research. It is valued at $50,000 per year for... MoreWednesday, June 17, 2020SPPA Graduating Class 2020Congratulations to the graduating class of 2020! Please join us Wednesday, June 24 from 1:00 - 2:00 p.m. EST for an online celebration. Check your cmail account for details or email sppa.events@carleton.ca for more information. View official list of Carleton University's graduating students on the convocation... MoreTuesday, June 16, 2020Mehdi Ammi Receives Funding from CIHR to Investigate Impact of Changes to Canada’s Public Health SystemCarleton University researcher Mehdi Ammi in the School of Public Policy and Administration has received $200,000 from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) to support an investigation into how changes to the public health system over the years have impacted the health of Canadians. “CIHR funding enables Carleton to extend its... MoreThursday, June 11, 2020Prime Minister Praises Canadian Post-Secondary Graduates in Live Address at Carleton UniversityBy Ellen Tsaprailis Photos by Mike Pinder “I trust you will be the 21st century’s Greatest Generation. You know what is wrong with the world and how to fix it.” It was high praise for post-secondary graduates across Canada as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau delivered a congratulatory speech from Carleton University on Wednesday, June 10,... MoreWednesday, June 3, 2020Antoine Genest-Gregoire: A Survey of Canadians’ Tax KnowledgeNew research by SPPA PhD in Public Policy student Antoine Genest-Gregoire and colleagues from Université de Sherbrooke looks at what Canadians know, and ignore, about taxes. Close to 3000 Canadians took a short quiz about the taxation of different sources of income as well as the progressivity of income tax. Success rates were average at... MoreMonday, June 1, 2020Risk, Resilience, and Recovery: A Path Forward to Canadian Charities in a Post-COVID-19 WorldCarleton University COVID-19 Rapid Research Response Grants SPPA Grant Recipients: Susan Phillips, Nathan Grasse, and Paloma Raggo, as well as Elizabeth Searing from the University of Texas – Dallas. The charitable sector is as important to Canada’s economy as the extractive or manufacturing industries, and Canadians rely on charities to... MoreMonday, June 1, 2020Statement on Recent Racial Violence in U.S. and CanadaFrom the Carleton Newsroom... As a university of national and international reach and connection, we are deeply mindful of the tragic and horrendous police-involved events that have recently taken place in the U.S. and Canada. We understand that these events are not isolated but are situated within intergenerational memories and histories of... MoreFriday, May 22, 2020Energy Road Map MoCreebec Eeyoud Enlists Carleton StudentsBy Ellen Tsaprailis Photos by Joshua Russell The MoCreebec Eeyoud First Nation in Moose Factory, Ont., wants to reduce energy costs and take ownership of power consumption. Carleton University students Joshua Russell and Keelia LaFreniere are helping them figure out the best path forward. The two Sustainable Energy master’s students are... MoreThursday, May 21, 2020James Meadowcroft is on National Task Force on Economic Recovery Post-COVIDBy Sissi De Flaviis Carleton University’s James Meadowcroft, a political science and public policy and administration professor, is one of 14 members in a new task force designed to make recommendations to the Canadian government to build a clean and resilient economy post-COVID-19. Meadowcroft is an international specialist in sustainable... MoreFriday, May 15, 2020Ted Jackson Wins OISE/UT Global Service AwardOn May 8, 2020, Ted Jackson, former tenured faculty member in the School, Faculty associate dean (research) and founding Director of the Carleton Centre for Community Innovation, was named the 2020 recipient of the Global Service Award of the Alumni Association of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto.... MoreWednesday, May 13, 2020PhD Candidate Jeff Donaldson Interviewed by CBC LondonSPPA PhD in Public Policy candidate Jeff Donaldson, talked to CBC London about household emergency management in the context of the coronavirus public health crisis. Jeff is a veteran of the Canadian Army, holds a Master's degree in Disaster and Emergency Management, and has been involved in supporting several Federal Government disaster relief... MoreTuesday, May 12, 2020Winner of the First Dr. Glen Toner ScholarshipThe School is very pleased to announce the first-ever winner of the Dr. Glen Toner Scholarship – Balie Walker. This is a fitting recognition of Balie’s contributions to the School of Public Policy and Administration (SPPA) and her excellent work as a student in the Master of Arts (MA) in Sustainable Energy program. “She... MoreMonday, May 11, 2020SPPA PostDoc Jacqueline Chapman and Prof. Stephan Schott: Tracking Fish in Canada’s North to Boost Food SecurityFrom the Carleton Newsroom... By Tyrone Burke Canada’s coastline is 243,042 kilometres long — far longer than that of any other country. If you stretched out the shoreline of every island and inlet, it would wrap around the equator six times over – or extend nearly two-thirds of the way to the moon. Tracking... MoreTuesday, May 5, 2020SPPA Alumnus Daniel Rosenbloom Co-authors Editorial in ScienceDaniel Rosenbloom, alumnus of MA Public Administration and PhD Public Policy, recently co-authored an editorial in Science titled, “A COVID-19 recovery for climate.” The article argues for the importance of leveraging the COVID-19 recovery to advance the low-carbon transition. It offers two main strategies: (1) stimulating innovation to build... MoreFriday, May 1, 2020Alumnus Saäd Rafi Named Head of Toronto’s COVID-19 RecoveryFrom the FPA Newsroom... SPPA Fellow and MA Public Administration alumnus Saäd Rafi has been appointed to lead the Toronto Office of Recovery and Rebuild in preparation for the post-COVID-19 recovery period. Rafi earned both a Bachelor of Law degree and a Master of Arts, Public Administration degree from Carleton University. He was named... MoreMonday, April 27, 2020SPPA Alumnus Matthew Retallack publishes article on source water protection in Ontario.Dr. Matthew Retallack, graduate of the School’s PhD Public Policy program in 2017, has published a new piece in the journal Policy Sciences. The paper is one piece from his thesis research that focused on the political economy of ecosystem services and watershed management in Canada. Abstract: In May 2000, E. coli originating from nearby... MoreThursday, April 9, 2020SPPA Alumnus Publishes Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesMA Public Administration and PhD Public Policy alumnus Daniel Rosenbloom recently published a peer-reviewed journal article titled, "Why carbon pricing is not sufficient to mitigate climate change—and how 'sustainability transition policy' can help" in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS... MoreFriday, April 3, 2020Watch the 2020 SPPA Case Competition Team’s gold-winning presentationSPPA's Master of Public Policy and Administration (MPPA) students took top prize at the 2020 National Public Administration Student Case Competition hosted at Laval University in Quebec City on February 22. The event is sponsored jointly by the Canadian Association of Programs in Public Administration (CAPPA) and the Institute of Public... MoreThursday, April 2, 2020Prof. Alexandra Mallett Publishes Article in Renewable and Sustainable Energy ReviewsThe challenge of energy transition in the Global South: The case of electricity generation planning in Ghana Anthony Afful-Dadzie Alexandra Mallett Eric Afful-Dadzie Highlights The study expounds on the major challenges that prevent countries in the Global South from fully embracing renewable energy. The study advances the debate on the... MoreThursday, April 2, 2020Special Issue on Evaluation in Indigenous ContextsProfessor Robert Shepherd and Professor Katherine Graham have just edited and contributed to a special issue of Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation that focuses on evaluation in Indigenous contexts. The issue includes seven papers that focus on Indigenous evaluation theory, practice, and implementation in various policy contexts including... MoreThursday, April 2, 2020In Conversation with Michael WernickOn Friday, March 27, Former Clerk of the Privy Council and Secretary to Cabinet, Michael Wernick, gave a talk online in PADM5123: The Practice of Public Management in Canada. More than 50 people participated in the online conversation that began with a 30-minute presentation by Mr. Wernick about his experiences as a former senior... MoreFriday, March 27, 2020Megan Linton, MPPA, FPA Research SeriesMegan Linton (she/her) is a first year student in the Master of Public Policy Administration. Originally from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Megan completed her undergraduate degree in International Development Studies and Disability Studies at the University of Winnipeg. Megan chose to come to Carleton because of the strong program and researchers, the... MoreThursday, March 26, 2020Jungroan Lin, PhD student, FPA Research SeriesI’m Jung, a second-year PhD in Public Policy student in the School of Public Policy and Administration. After doing my undergraduate degree here at Carleton in Arthur Kroeger College and leaving to go to UBC for my Master's, I was drawn back to the more practically oriented research that I had been exposed to... MoreThursday, March 26, 2020Benjamin Faveri, MPPA, FPA Research SeriesBenjamin Faveri is a student in the Master of Public Policy and Administration. Interview Topic: Loot boxes are a product that can be purchased within a videogame for real-world currency, and, on occasion, in-game currency. Loot boxes give the buyer a chance to win an in-game product such as a different set of armour,... MoreWednesday, March 25, 2020Hana Ouchi, MPPA, FPA Research SeriesI am Hana, a first-year student in the Master of Public Policy and Administration. I was initially drawn to the program here at Carleton because of its favorable location in the capital and the co-op option offered through the program. I am originally from BC so the change from a ‘west-coast’ perspective was quite... MoreTuesday, March 24, 2020Prof. Alexandra Mallett Publishes Book through Routledge Exploration in Energy StudiesRenewable Energy Uptake in Urban Latin America, a book by SPPA Prof. Alexandra Mallett was recently published as part of Routledge's Explorations in Energy Studies (REENS). This book explores the perplexing question of how to increase sustainable energy technology use in the developing world, and specifically focuses on two megacities within Latin... 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