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 two Canada Research Chairs (Daniel Béland and Greg Marchildon) 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.

Search Research Interests of Faculty

 

Faculty
Associate Members
Adjunct Professors
Policy Fellows
Post-Doctoral Fellows
Professional Affiliates


FacultyAreas of Research Interests
Michael AtkinsonPolitical 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 BĂ©landComparative public policy; Fiscal policy; Social policy; Political sociology; Historical and comparative sociology
Bruno DupeyronComparative 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 FultonInnovation policy; Behavioural economics; Climate change policy; Intellectual property rights; Co-operatives and the social economy; Agricultural and resource policy
Patricia GoberWater policy; Sustainability science; Decision making under uncertainty; Urban systems; Human migration and population geography; Science-policy interface and stakeholder engagement ; Applied climatology
Robert E. HawkinsAdministrative law (public inquiries, bias, standards of review); Constitutional law (crown prerogative and conventions); Post-secondary education policy
Heather HeavinInternational and interprovincial trade law ; International dispute resolution ; Law reform
Greg MarchildonPublic health care policy in Canada and other advanced industrialized nations and comparative health systems; Political, administrative and economic history of the Prairie Provinces
Kathleen McNuttPolicy analysis; Program evaluation; e-Government; Network analysis; Gender; Climate change policy; Web governance; Natural resource policy; Collaborative policy making; Policy theory
Haizhen MouHealth care policy; Social policy; Population aging; Public choice
M. Rose OlfertPublic policy; Rural/regional economics; Rural-urban interdependence; People-based vs. Place-based policy; Rural economic restructuring; Resource based economies
Peter W.B. PhillipsInternational 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 RaynerGlobal forest governance; Resource, environmental and energy policies; Policy theory (especially institutionalism and problems of policy change)
Keith WalkerLeadership philosophy and leader development; Professional and applied ethics; 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
Amy ZarzecznyHealth law; ; Health policy; ; Science and research policy; Ethical, legal and social issues (ELSI) associated with emerging biotechnology
Lihui ZhangLabour economics; Applied econometrics; Crime economics; Economics of family and children; Population health and well-being; Poverty and inequality and public policies

Associate MembersAreas of Research Interests
Allen BackmanHealth 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 BerdahlCanadian politics; Research methodology; Political theory
Beth Bilson
Joel BruneauTrade and environment; Pollution and industrial structure; Water resources
Sheila Carr-StewartIndigenous educational governance and policy; Comparative education; Canadian Aboriginal policy; Community development; Social issues
Douglas A. ClarkWildlife 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 DygaloEconometrics; Labour economics
Brett Fairbairn
Joe GarceaPublic administration; Public policy analysis; Local government
Don GilchristPublic economics; Urban and regional economics
Richard GrayEconomics of innovation; Grain marketing; Science policy
Jill HobbsBioresource policy; Business and economics
William KerrCommercial policy; International trade
Robert LucasMonetary economics; Macroeconomics; International monetary economics
David McGraneCanadian, Saskatchewan and Quebec politics
Hans MichelmannComparative politics (Western Europe); European integration; Comparative public policy and administration
Greg PoelzerAboriginal policy; Innovation; Northern development; Circumpolar north; Governance and development
Stuart SmythInnovation; Agricultural biotechnology
Kara SomervilleGlobalization; Immigration; Transnational practices; Race and ethnic relations; Family

Adjunct ProfessorsAreas of Research Interests
David CastleEthics and governance of bioproducts and crops
Keith CulverEthics and governance of bioproducts and crops
Jeremy de BeerIntellectual property; Biotechnology; Information communications issues
Edna EinsiedelDemocratic engagement and governance of biotechnology, bioproducts and crops
Konstantinos (Dinos) GiannakasFood system innovation; Food and agricultural policy
Sylvan KatzScience, 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 TanseySustainable development, risk management and the sociology of risk related to bioproducts and crops
Evelyn PetersAboriginal People and urbanization in Canada and internationally; Community-based research; Inner city issues

Policy FellowsAreas of Research Interests
John C. CourtneyCanadian and comparative: parties and elections; Electoral reform; Electoral systems; Franchise; Voter registration; Electoral administration; Boundary readjustments, Redistribution and redistricting; Leadership conventions
Doug ElliotSaskatchewan demographics; Labour market supply and demand; First Nations development
Richard FlorizoneScience and technology policy; Energy
Grant IsaacEnergy policy; Canada-US trade; Transatlantic trade; Trade, regulations and technology; Strategic management of intellectual property
Jim MarshallPublic finance; Labour economics; Economics of education
Evelyn PetersAboriginal People and urbanization in Canada and internationally; Community-based research; Inner city issues
Roy Romanow
Peggy Schmeiser
David E. SmithParliament; Canadian federalism; Political parties
Sharon Lee Smith
John D. WhyteConstitutional law and theory; Constitutional reform; International constitutional development; Legal process and legal theory

Post-Doctoral FellowsAreas of Research Interests
Lisa ClarkAgricultural trade policy; Food and agriculture social movements; Food and agriculture governance systems; Organic agriculture

Professional AffiliatesAreas of Research Interests
James LeachTrade policy and international trade negotiations
Wayne RobinsonInternational trade development; International business