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Student Experiences

Our students join us from unique and diverse career and academic backgrounds. Some come back to a graduate program after gaining career experience. Others pivot to a focus on policy to complement and extend their undergraduate degrees in the humanities, social sciences, or natural and engineering sciences. What unites them is a common interest in understanding how policy and administration works and how our collective efforts to govern can be improved. The students arrayed below offer a glimpse into the passions, motivations, backgrounds and experiences of our students.

SPPA Student Experiences

Model ICAO event: A First for SPPA Students

From May 19th to May 23rd, 2025, Rory Palau Zea and Jaimi Plater, SPPA students in the MPPA, joined a team of law students from …

Brendan Haley, PhD in Public Policy (2015)

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, …

David Dobrowolski, MPPA Co-op

David Dobrowolski, Master of Public Policy and Administration (Co-op)

Hello, my name is David Dobrowolski. I am in my last year of the Master of Public Policy and Administration program at Carleton University. I …