The JSGS Research Students' Working Group provides the opportunity for MPP and PhD students to share once a month their ongoing research with each other, as well as the rest of the JSGS community, staff, faculty and students. This is also a useful forum to get to know each other, have conversations about methodological issues, and share research tips and tricks.
The first meeting of the JSGS Research Students' Working Group will include three presentations (see program below) and will be held on September 14 from noon to 1 pm, in CB 317, College Avenue Campus and in the Canada Room, Diefenbaker Building.
Feel free to bring your lunch!
Presentations
Moses Gordon
Business Development and Nation (Re)Building in Canadian First Nations: A Case Study of the File Hills Qu'Appelle Tribal Council
First Nations in Canada are in the process of recovering from the fallout of damaging colonial policies that have had a lasting impact on the wellbeing of Indigenous societies. Business development and governance reform are two pathways from which First Nations can increase collective wellbeing, self-sufficiency, and self-determination. Themes of Indigenous business, governance, community-based research, and historical embeddedness intersect within a rich and dynamic case study stretching back to precolonial times.
Moses Gordon is from the George Gordon First Nation. He is an MPP student with the Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy and is presently employed in research at the First Nations University of Canada with the School of Business and Public Administration. Moses serves on the board of directors for George Gordon Developments Ltd. - the community-owned economic development corporation of his First Nation - as well as the Indigenous Advisory Circle at the University of Regina.
Calum Smee
Organ Donation, Incentives, and Coherence in Canada
This research addresses the regulation of organ donation and the use of incentives in Canada from a policy coherence perspective. In this research the policy coherence relationship between organ donation regulation and programming within each of the provinces and territories and between the provinces and territories was assessed. This assessment resulted in the identification of policy conflicts and complementarities within Canadian organ donation policy.
Calum earned his B.A. (Hon) in Criminal Justice from the University of Winnipeg prior to enrolling in the MPP program at the University of Regina. His research interests include health policy and justice policy.
Yassine El Bahlouli
How do parliamentarians use information and communications technologies (ICTs) to carry out their legislative and representative functions?
- Legislative production through a jurisdiction's parliament is an important governance function that involves numerous stakeholders (e.g., parliamentarians, civil servants, civil society organizations, and citizens), each having different organizational, procedural, and technical capacities.
- IT investments in parliament are significant and we have to understand how to use this money effectively.
- The research assesses the federal and provincial level in the Canadian House of Commons and in Saskatchewan Legislative Assembly across the different functions and roles of parliamentarians focusing on how the use and adoption of information and communication technologies (ICTs) can improve their abilities
Yassine El Bahlouli is a graduate student in public policy at the Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy, and a member of the Digital Governance Lab. Yassine has an IT Engineer Credential from Paris 8 University and an MBA in International Management from "Ponts et Chaussées School" in Paris. He held the position of Adviser to the Speaker of the Moroccan Parliament and led, from 2014 to 2016, the E-Parliament Project. Yassine is currently focusing on Citizen Engagement, Democracy 2.0 and Real Time Policy Analytics.
Event Details
- When:
- Time:
- 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM CST
- Location:
- CB 317, College Avenue Campus / Canada Room, Diefenbaker Building
- File:
- JSGS Research Student Working Group Poster
