During the 2014 Faculty of Public Affairs (FPA) Research Month, Carleton University will open its doors starting Feb. 24 2014 to share its innovative research.
“FPA Research Month is a series of events that showcase the wide range of research activities undertaken in the Faculty of Public Affairs,” said André Plourde, dean of the Faculty of Public Affairs. “It will give the Carleton community, friends, alumni and the public in general the opportunity to experience the great research work done by faculty members, students, post-docs and our community partners.”
The FPA brings together units that address organizations, policy and interactions among sectors of civic society –business, government and non-profit sectors. Established in 1997, it is comprised of traditional academic disciplines, including the Departments of Economics, Political Science and Law and Legal Studies, the interdisciplinary institutes of Criminology and Criminal Justice, European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, Political Economy and African Studies. The faculty is also home to the interdisciplinary and professional schools of Social Work, Public Policy and Administration, the renowned School of Journalism and Communication and the internationally acclaimed Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, which offers Canada’s most comprehensive advanced degree programs in the field of international relations.
Research conducted by 200 faculty members informs the curricula of 13 undergraduate degree programs and 15 graduate programs offered in the faculty, including the Bachelor of Public Affairs and Policy Management and the Graduate Program in Political Management, the first and only one of its kind in Canada, both housed in the Arthur Kroeger College of Public Affairs.
Some of the featured events planned throughout Research Month include:
Attallah Lecture with guest Jack Halberstam (University of Southern California)
When: Tuesday, March. 4, 2014 from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Where: River Building, Conference Room and Atrium
For event and speaker details: http://carletoncgc.com/2013/12/05/2014-paul-attallah-lecture-series/
Annual Kesterton Lecture with guest Nahlah Ayed
When: Tuesday, March. 11, 2014 from 6:30 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.
Where: River Building, Conference Room and Atrium
SPPA 60 Anniversary, SPPA Student Society Banquet
When: Friday, March. 14, 2014 at 6:00 p.m.
Where: Panorama Room, National Arts Centre, 53 Elgin Street
To register and for further information: http://forms.carleton.ca/conferences/sppa60/
Highlighting Carleton Community Engaged Research
When: Monday, March. 17, 2014 from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Where: River Building, Conference Room and Atrium
FPA Living Books
When: Monday March. 17, 2014 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Where: MacOdrum Library
For event information and to “sign out” a researcher, visit: http://carleton.ca/fpa/fpa-living-books/.
FPA Research Panel on Research Directions-guests include Chad Gaffield, SSHRC President
When: Friday, March. 21, 2014 from 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Where: River Building, Atrium
Annual Bell Lecture with guest Darrell Bricker, The Big Shift
When: Monday, March. 24, 2014 from 5:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.
Where: River Building, Atrium
For more details and a complete list of the month’s events visit: http://carleton.ca/fpa/2014-research-month/
Some of the prominent researchers to be featured over the course of this month include:
Ted Jackson
Jackson is involved in The Community First: Impacts of Community Engagement (CFICE) project — a seven-year, $2.5M, SSHRC-funded initiative — that examines how community-university partnerships can be structured to maximize the benefits for community-based non-profit organizations. Co-led by academics and non-profit leaders, CFICE involves 250 individuals collaborating across seven provinces to reduce poverty, enhance food security, strengthen environmental sustainability and fight violence against women. Over the past 18 months, 20 Carleton University students have built new skills working with community groups in the network.
Frances Abele
Abele is working with communities and organizations in the Northwest Territories and Nunavut on several projects related to resource industries, the harvesting economy and community well-being. She maintains a second line of research on evolving federal policy in Aboriginal and northern affairs.
Fiona Robinson
Robinson explores the ethics of care in the context of global politics. The ethics of care is an approach that emphasizes human interdependence and argues that the giving and receiving of care are fundamental aspects of human life. She takes this perspective and uses it as a critical lens to try to rethink big issues in global politics. She plans to investigate the effects of three decades of neo-liberalism on perceptions and practices surrounding the organization of care globally.
Jez Littlewood
Littlewood is conducting research on issues related to terrorism and counterterrorism and the control of biological weapons. Among his current projects are an assessment of the future of terrorism, possible policy responses to the challenges posed by foreign fighters, the concepts of co-operation and complexity and their implications for Canada’s intelligence community, and the future of the biological weapons convention (BWC).
Josh Greenberg
Greenberg explores the circuit of communication within which public health risks arise. His work explores several overlapping issues and themes: How do health authorities communicate risk during outbreaks? What role do the media play in shaping public risk perception? What are the communications needs of vulnerable populations during periods of public health risk and emergency? How is social media changing the landscape of health risk communication today? He is in the early stages of a new study exploring the politics of health risk communication, in particular the ways in which operational demands for message control affect the best practice principles of openness, transparency and dialogue. Greenberg is the lead investigator of the Communication, Risk and Public Health Research Group, which was awarded a Carleton University Research Excellence Fund in 2013.
Cristina Rojas
Rojas is in Bolivia analyzing the relation between indigenous women’s organizations and the state in the post-constituent assembly period.
Ummni Khan
Khan’s research focuses on the construction and regulation of stigmatized sexual practices, including BDSM (bondage, discipline, sadomasochism), sex work and inter-cousin marriage. Her new book, Vicarious Kinks: Sadomasochism in the Socio-Legal Imaginary, examines the ways that criminal regulation of consensual sadomasochism rests on problematic ideological claims that engage with psychiatry, anti-pornography feminism and pop culture. She has written a number of articles on the topic of sex work, including Prostituted Girls and the Grownup Gaze, Running in(to) the Family: 8 Short Stories About Sex Workers, Clients, Husbands, And Wives and Anti-prostitution Feminism and the Surveillance of Sex Industry Clients. In the 2014-2015, Khan will be a sabbatical visitor at Columbia University’s Centre for Gender and Sexuality Law, researching the U.S. and Canadian regulation of sex industry clients.
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