Courses
I teach the following courses at Carleton University:
Public Management in Practice
PADM 5123
In this course we focus on the practice of public service work as it unfolds in today’s governing context, with a particular focus on the Canadian experience. The goal is to provide MPPA graduates with practical knowledge and competencies they will need to thrive as current and future public policy leaders, and in particular, to effectively navigate the challenges and opportunities facing public servants and the institutions in which they work today.
Public Management: Principles and Approaches
PADM 5122
This course gives graduate students of public policy and administration a primer on the core concepts and key debates at play in Canadian government, including: the role of cabinet, ministers, and the civil service in the policy process; Responsible Government and the confidence convention; Canadian federalism; and Crown-Indigenous relations.
The course introduces students to these topics using case studies and simulations, drawing on a textbook that I co-authored with Prof. Jonathan Craft, Issues in Canadian Governance
Digital Government: Modernising policy, services, and administration for the digital age
PADM 5702
This course follows the syllabus that I helped create as a founding member of the Harvard-based international collaboration Teaching Public Service in the Digital Age.
The course introduces students to digital-era approaches to policy making, service delivery and government administration, and answers questions like: “how can government policymakers better design programs to meet their users’ needs?”, “Why should governments work more openly and collaboratively, and how can they do so effectively?” And, “how can governments harness the potential of new data and technologies responsibly and accountably?”.
Supervision
I am eager to supervise students and post-doctoral researchers interested in public administration, Canadian government, digital government and public data governance.
Students interested in working with large datasets and computationally-intensive analytical approaches are invited to house their projects in the Canada Foundation for Innovation high-powered computing lab that I lead at Carleton University.