About Us
FACULTY DIRECTORY
New and established faculty and staff at Saskatchewan's two largest universities have come together to create a unique partnership to better serve the province and the nation. By employing faculty with extensive experience in applied public policy and policy research, the school is able to provide expertise regarding multi-level governance, agenda setting, ethical leadership and good governance, budgets and public finance, decision making and public process intelligence. Researchers in the school have expertise in a number of substantive areas, including social policy, health policy, innovation policy, trade and immigration policy, resource and environmental policy, and public-sector management.
Among the faculty are three Canada Research Chairs (Daniel Béland, Greg Marchildon and Ken Coates) and one Centennial Chair (Jeremy Rayner) whose responsibility is to strengthen the country's international research competitiveness while also focusing on graduate student training. Faculty members are carefully selected for their superb academic qualifications, their applied public policy experience and their demonstrated interest in applying academic research to real-world public policy problems.
Graduate Chairs - Murray Fulton (U of S campus) and Kathleen McNutt (U of R campus)
Faculty
Associate Members
Adjunct Professors
Policy Fellows
Visiting Scholars
Post-Doctoral Fellows
Professional Affiliates
| Faculty | Areas of Research Interests |
|---|---|
| Michael Atkinson | Political institutions (institutional theory, rational choice); Public policy (business-state relations, industrial policy, labour market adjustment, science and technology); Political corruption (theories of corruption, comparative studies of conflict of interest regulation, attitudinal research) |
| Daniel Béland | Comparative public policy; Fiscal policy; Social policy; Political sociology; Historical and comparative sociology |
| Ken Coates | Regional innovation; University education and higher education generally; Aboriginal rights and land claims; Science and technology policy ; Japan and Canada-Asia relations ; Northern development/Circumpolar affairs |
| Bruno Dupeyron | Comparative politics; Multilevel governance; Processes of regional integration; Public action in the international and transnational fields; Border governance; Strategies of institutional building in the European Union, NAFTA and the Mercosur; Immigration policy |
| Murray Fulton | Innovation policy; Behavioural economics; Climate change policy; Intellectual property rights; Co-operatives and the social economy; Agricultural and resource policy |
| Patricia Gober | Water policy; Decision making under uncertainty; Urban systems; Science-policy interface and stakeholder engagement ; Applied climatology |
| Robert E. Hawkins | Administrative law (public inquiries, bias, standards of review); Constitutional law (crown prerogative and conventions); Post-secondary education policy |
| Heather D. Heavin | Business law and governance; Interprovincial trade and dispute resolution ; International trade law and dispute resolution; Oil and gas law and policy |
| Iryna Kryvoruchko | Public economics; Applied econometrics; Economics of charities; Taxation |
| Greg Marchildon | Canadian public policy and economic history; Evolution of public health care in Canada; Political, administrative and economic history of postwar Saskatchewan ; Public health care policy in Canada and other advanced industrialized nations and comparative health systems |
| Kathleen McNutt | Digital government; Social Media; Policy Analysis; Program Evaluation |
| Haizhen Mou | Health care policy; Public finance; Population aging; Public choice |
| M. Rose Olfert | Public policy; Rural/regional economics; Rural-urban interdependence; People-based vs. Place-based policy; Rural economic restructuring; Resource based economies |
| Dan Perrins | Public administration; Social policy; Machinery of government; Board governance |
| Peter W.B. Phillips | International political economy; Public policy; Science, technology and innovation ; Regulation and trade policy |
| Ken Rasmussen | Public enterprise management; Administrative reform; Administrative history; Non-profit organizations; Ethics and leadership; Provincial politics |
| Jeremy Rayner | Global forest governance; Resource, environmental and energy policies; Policy theory (especially institutionalism and problems of policy change) |
| Keith Walker | Leadership philosophy and executive leader development; Professional and applied ethics; Governance and Board Governance; Policy making and decision making; Organizational theory and organizational development; Trust and moral agency; Public sector administration; Spiritual dimension of leadership; Capacity building in the new economy; Research methodologies; The best interests of the child; Personal, interpersonal, organizational and societal well-being |
| Amy Zarzeczny | Health law ; Health policy; Science and biomedical research policy; Medical tourism |
| Lihui Zhang | Labour economics; Applied econometrics; Crime economics; Economics of family and children; Population health and well-being; Poverty and inequality and public policies |
| Associate Members | Areas of Research Interests |
|---|---|
| Allen Backman | Health policy; Health politics; Health ethics; Strategic planning and management; Health Care Human Resources; Issues of retention, recruitment, satisfaction and skill mix utilization of health care providers |
| Loleen Berdahl | Canadian politics; Research methodology; Political theory |
| Beth Bilson | |
| Maureen Bourassa | Corporate social responsibility and stakeholder engagement; Meaning and impact of respect in the context of marketing relationships |
| Joel Bruneau | Trade and environment; Pollution and industrial structure; Water resources |
| Sheila Carr-Stewart | Indigenous educational governance and policy; Comparative education; Canadian Aboriginal policy; Community development; Social issues |
| Douglas A. Clark | Wildlife and protected area management; Environmental governance and policy processes; Local and traditional ecological knowledge in decision-making; Wildlife-human conflicts, large carnivore conservation; Social-ecological systems and resilience theory |
| Brent Cotter | |
| Natalya Dygalo | Econometrics; Labour economics |
| Brett Fairbairn | |
| Joe Garcea | Public administration; Public policy analysis; Local government |
| Don Gilchrist | Public economics; Urban and regional economics |
| Richard Gray | Economics of innovation; Grain marketing; Science policy |
| Jill Hobbs | Bioresource policy; Business and economics |
| William Kerr | Commercial policy; International trade |
| Robert Lucas | Monetary economics; Macroeconomics; International monetary economics |
| David McGrane | Canadian, Saskatchewan and Quebec politics |
| Hans Michelmann | Comparative politics (Western Europe); European integration; Comparative public policy and administration |
| Greg Poelzer | Aboriginal policy; Innovation; Northern development; Circumpolar north; Governance and development |
| Stuart Smyth | Innovation; Agricultural biotechnology |
| Kara Somerville | Globalization; Immigration; Transnational practices; Race and ethnic relations; Family |
| Adjunct Professors | Areas of Research Interests |
|---|---|
| David Castle | Ethics and governance of bioproducts and crops |
| Keith Culver | Ethics and governance of bioproducts and crops |
| Jeremy de Beer | Intellectual property; Biotechnology; Information communications issues |
| Edna Einsiedel | Democratic engagement and governance of biotechnology, bioproducts and crops |
| Konstantinos (Dinos) Giannakas | Food system innovation; Food and agricultural policy |
| Sylvan Katz | Science, technology and innovation policy; Use of complexity science to inform public policy and evaluation methods of complex innovation and science systems; bibliometric indicators with a specific emphasis on scale-independent measures. |
| James Tansey | Sustainable development, risk management and the sociology of risk related to bioproducts and crops |
| Evelyn Peters | Aboriginal People and urbanization in Canada and internationally; Community-based research; Inner city issues |
| Policy Fellows | Areas of Research Interests |
|---|---|
| Raynell Andreychuk | International law; Human rights |
| Michael Boda | |
| John C. Courtney | Canadian and comparative: parties and elections; Electoral reform; Electoral systems; Franchise; Voter registration; Electoral administration; Boundary readjustments, Redistribution and redistricting; Leadership conventions |
| Ron Crowe | |
| Doug Elliot | Saskatchewan demographics; Labour market supply and demand; First Nations development |
| Dan Florizone | Toyota production system; Health system reform |
| Richard Florizone | Science and technology policy; Energy |
| Daniel M. Fox | Health policy and politics |
| Grant Isaac | Energy policy; Canada-US trade; Transatlantic trade; Trade, regulations and technology; Strategic management of intellectual property |
| Dylan Jones | Federalism; Natural resources policy; Strategic economic policy |
| Jim Marshall | Public finance; Labour economics; Economics of education |
| Dwight Nelson | Health care sustainability; Effective governance in the public sector; Priority setting using program budgeting and marginal analysis; Strategic labour relations |
| Evelyn Peters | Aboriginal People and urbanization in Canada and internationally; Community-based research; Inner city issues |
| Roy Romanow | |
| Peggy Schmeiser | |
| Mike Shaw | Public sector institution governance and leadership; Public policy; Public service renewal |
| David E. Smith | Parliament; Canadian federalism; Political parties |
| Sharon Lee Smith | |
| John D. Whyte | Constitutional law and theory; Constitutional reform; International constitutional development; Legal process and legal theory |
| Visiting Scholars | Areas of Research Interests |
|---|---|
| Erling Li | |
| Wang Lijian | Chinese rural social security system |
| Michele Mastroeni | Diefenbaker Policy Fellow |
| Post-Doctoral Fellows | Areas of Research Interests |
|---|---|
| Lisa Clark | Agricultural trade policy; Food and agriculture social movements; Food and agriculture governance systems; Organic agriculture |
| Heather Exner-Pirot | Northern development; Regionalization; Human security; Circumpolar relations |
| Pierre-Marc Daigneault | Canadian public policy; Public administration; Program evaluation; Social policy and social assistance; Methodology |
| Professional Affiliates | Areas of Research Interests |
|---|---|
| James Leach | Trade policy and international trade negotiations |
| Wayne Robinson | International trade development; International business |