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
Inside Government: Capstone Students Take on the National Interest
What does it mean for the federal government to decide whether a major energy project is in the “national interest”? For graduate students in the …
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
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, …