Christopher Stoney
Associate Professor, School of Public Policy and Administration and CURE Lead
Christopher Stoney (PhD) is Associate Professor in the School of Public Policy and Administration where he teaches MA courses on federal and local government, public sector management, organizational theory, strategy and urban sustainability. His current research includes evaluating the administration and expenditure of the federal Gas Tax by provinces and cities across Canada, the use of community engagement in neighbourhood place based urban planning and issues of emergency management and preparedness. He also writes on intergovernmental relations and various aspects of Canadian public policy such as regulation, procurement and infrastructure and aspects of public management including accountability, strategy and labour process.
François Brouard
Associate Professor, Sprott School of Business
François Brouard is a bilingual Chartered Accountant with a bachelor’s degree in
business administration (B.A.A.) from HEC Montréal, a master’s degree in accounting
(M.Sc.) from Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) and a Doctorate in Business
Administration (DBA) from Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières (UQTR). He is an associate professor in the accounting group (taxation and financial accounting) at Eric Sprott School of Business, Carleton University. A member of Carleton Urban Research and Education (CURE) network, his research interests include environmental scanning and strategy, taxation, governance, performance measurement. He is involved in the Gas Tax Transfer and Urban Infrastructure study led by CURE.
Katherine Graham
Professor, School of Public Policy and Administration
Katherine Graham is a Professor in the School of Public Policy and Administration and previously the Dean of the Faculty of Public Affairs at Carleton University. Professor Graham’s interests are in the field of public policy and the management of government, including policy and program evaluation. She has focused these interests on local government, Aboriginal policy and civic engagement. She is a sought after commentator on public policy issues and has served as an advisor to all three levels of government in Canada and to governments abroad.
Professor Graham is the author and editor of numerous publications. She has recently co-authored a major paper on Aboriginal peoples and cities for the Canadian Policy Research Networks (CPRN) and a paper on balanced urban growth for the TD Canada Trust Prosperity Initiative. Her most recent book, Urban Affairs: Back on the Policy Agenda, (co-edited with Caroline Andrew and Susan D. Phillips) was published by McGill-Queen’s in 2002. She is a member of a team of Canadian and international researchers who are the recipients of a five-year, $2.5 million grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada to study multi-level governance, public policy and Canadian municipalities.
Robert Hilton
Visiting Fellow, School of Public Policy and Administration
Robert Hilton is currently on an interchange assignment as a Visiting Fellow with the School of Public Policy and Administration at Carleton University. Robert has worked nearly 35 years with the federal government, with experience principally in policy and program administration, audit and evaluation. While completing his Masters Degree at Carleton, he carried out extensive research for his thesis on federal government programming related to infrastructure: "Building Political Capital: The Politics of 'Need' in the Federal Government's Municipal Infrastructure Programs, 1993-2006."
He is co-teaching a new graduate policy seminar – Urban Sustainability – during the summer term. He will also be participating in the CURE research project related to the federal government’s Gas Tax initiative. His research interests relate to the impact of municipal infrastructure on sustainable development and the means of engaging citizens in decisions about infrastructure choices and the levels of service provided.
Fran Klodawsky
Associate Professor, Geography and Environmental Studies
Dr. Fran Klodawsky is currently Associate Professor of Geography and Environmental Studies at Carleton University. Dr. Klodawsky graduated from Queen's University at Kingston with a Ph.D. in Human Geography. She began her association with Carleton University in 1986, as Advisor to the President on Status of Women Issues, a position she occupied until 1991. In that year, she became the Director of the Institute of Women's Studies, as well as a cross-appointed faculty member. Since 1994, the focus of her teaching and research has been the application of social theory and research methodologies to examine and address urban social problems. She has worked with numerous non-governmental organizations, and has written about community efforts to improve access to decent and affordable housing, and to address women's public safety and municipal governance concerns.
Edward Jackson
Associate Dean (Research and Graduate Affairs), Faculty of Public Affairs
Edward T. Jackson is Associate Dean (Research and Graduate Affairs) in the Faculty of Public Affairs, and Associate Professor of Public Administration and International Affairs, at Carleton University. His research interests include community economic development (CED) and social enterprise, local state-citizen engagement, financing civil society, participatory research and evaluation, and community-university partnerships. In Canada, he is currently assessing the impacts of social enterprises and CED organizations, examining strategies for corporate engagement with CED, and is working with foundations and governments to develop new forms of social finance that promote poverty reduction, affordable housing and green energy. Professor Jackson is also involved in action-research for capacity building in program evaluation in Asia and Africa.
Allan Maslove
Professor, School of Public Policy and Administration
Dr. Maslove is a professor in the School of Public Policy and Administration at Carleton University in Ottawa. An economist specializing in public finance, Dr. Maslove is a graduate of the Universities of Manitoba (Canada) and Minnesota (USA). In July 1997, Dr. Maslove was appointed as the first Dean of the new Faculty of Public Affairs and Management at Carleton, a position he held for six years. Dr. Maslove served as the Director of Research for the Ontario Fair Tax Commission (1991-93). Dr. Maslove is the author or editor of more than 15 books and has written numerous articles in the areas of public policy and public finance, federal-provincial relations and the financing of health care.
Maslove has written several articles on the budgetary policies of municipal governments. He (along with Erica Adams, a doctoral student in the School) is currently writing a paper on the federal gas tax cession to municipalities for infrastructure investment. This paper will analyze the federal policy decision, the negotiations that led to the agreements, and the content of the agreements. Future work will focus on the impacts on budgets and decision-making in the municipalities.
Susan Phillips
Director and Professor, School of Public Policy and Administration Dr. Susan Phillips is Professor and Director of the School of Public Policy and Administration of Carleton University. She is also a Senior Research Fellow, founding member, and former Research Director of the Centre for Voluntary Sector Research and Development (CVSRD). Her research focuses on public policy, governance and regulation of the voluntary/nonprofit sector, citizen engagement and public management. Her current research project is a co-edited book that examines the relationships and tensions between collaborative governance and regulation of the voluntary sector in an international perspective.
Dr. Phillips not only conducts research on the voluntary sector, but has been actively engaged in working with the sector to enhance its capacity for policy research and governance. From 1997-1999, she was Research Director of the [Broadbent] Panel on Accountability and Governance in the Voluntary Sector that conducted research, held extensive consultations and make extensive recommendations on improving the sector's own governance practices and on reforming public policy to establish better government-sector relationships. From 2000-2006, Dr. Phillips served as Co-Director of the Voluntary Sector Evaluation Research Project, a pan-Canadian Community University Research Alliance (CURA) funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). In this capacity, she worked with a number of national and local civil society partners to enhance the capacity for evaluation in the sector. She was also the lead investigator of the team that conducted the process evaluation for the Government of Canada of the $96 million Voluntary Sector Initiative and was the co-lead on the two-year Policy Internship and Fellowship (PIAF) program that enabled leaders from the voluntary sector and the Government of Canada to spend up to ten months working in the 'other' side and building cross-sectoral networks.
Paula Speevak Sladowski
Managing Director, Centre for Voluntary Sector Research and Development
Paula Speevak Sladowski is the Managing Director of the Centre for Voluntary Sector Research and Development, a joint research and educational unit of Carleton University and the University of Ottawa. In addition to overseeing the daily operations, she has managed a number of projects including the Voluntary Sector Evaluation Research Project, The Policy Internships and Fellowships Program, and The Charities File (A Pan-Canadian Training Program for Canada Charities). She recently taught an undergraduate course in Governance in the Non-Profit and Voluntary Sector at the University of Ottawa. Her research interests are in board governance, multi-sector engagement, and network development.
Prior to Carleton, she enjoyed a 24-year career as a practitioner and senior manager in the non-profit and voluntary sector in both institutional and community-based settings, in Montreal, Ottawa, and on pan-Canadian initiatives. Her variety of roles as a case-aid, intake worker, group facilitator, seniors’ activities director, project manager, and executive director gave her practical knowledge working with committees and boards of directors and understanding the legislative environment in which they operate.
Eugene Swimmer
Professor, School of Public Policy and Administration
Eugene Swimmer’s research concerns labour relations in the Canada's public sector, where compensation and employment outcomes are the result of both economic and political forces. He has been particularly interested in the mechanisms for resolving public sector collective bargaining disputes, in an environment where the government often takes on the contradictory roles as protector of the public interest, direct employer and legislator. Much of his recent work has focused on the increasing use government legislative power to unilaterally impose compensation on public employees. He regularly teaches the School of Public Policy and Administration’s quantitative methods and microeconomics courses, using a lecture-based approach. He also runs a seminar in industrial relations, which revolves around a simulated collective bargaining exercise. |
