Updates & events

SPA is 50! The UVic School of Public Administration (SPA) is marking a milestone year – our 50th anniversary!

The School of Public Administration is thrilled to welcome Mr. Okenge Yuma Morisho as an Adjunct Professor.

SPA Faculty member Sarah Marie Wiebe knows that becoming a parent is always a bit scary, but having a baby when the world is literally on fire is terrifying.

Brooke Hayes (PhD Candidate, Geography, UVic; Manager of the EcoSoil Lab) and Dr. Tamara Krawchenko (Associate Professor, SPA, UVic) have recently published a jurisdictional review of Rural Economic Development approaches with the Canadian Rural Revitalisation Foundation.

Attend an upcoming session to see if we have a program that is the right fit for you!

Hot Mess Book Launch, October 4, 5pm to 7pm, Circularity Boutique, 1807 Store ST Victoria

Congratulations to SPA PhD Student Mohaddese Ghadiri for publishing two new articles in the Journal of Environmental Management and in the journal Challenges together with her Supervisors Dr. Tamara Krawchenko (Associate Professor SPA) and Dr. Robert Newell (Assistant Professor, Canada Research Chair in Climate Change, Biodiversity & Sustainability Royal Roads University).

Applications for Spring 2025 courses are now being accepted.

Dr. Katya Rhodes recently published a paper on heat pump adoption in Canada in Frontiers: "The landscape of heat pump adoption in Canada: a market segments approach." Dr. Sarah Marie Wiebe published an article in Critical Policy Studies: Reframing a community in crisis: an Intersectional discourse analysis of media responses to state of emergency declarations in Attawapiskat.

From the Archipelagos Collective, Heather Castleden and Hōkūlani Aikau bring you conversations with Indigenous artists, activists, and academics who are tackling the triple crisis of climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution through daily acts of asserting self-determination to broad trans-Indigenous collective action.

All applicants to the UVic MA in Community Development (MACD) program may be eligible for UVic fellowships distributed by the School of Public Administration. MACD applicants for the 2025 cohort may also be eligible for priority admission awards.

Dr. Sarah Marie Wiebe received the 2024 Donald Smiley Book Prize from the Canadian Political Science Association.

Learn about Dr. Wiebe's forthcoming book Hot Mess: Mothering Through a Code Red Climate Emergency.

Dr. Sarah Marie Wiebe was recently invited by the Senate of Canada to provide an expert witness testimony on Bill C-226, an Act respecting the development of a national strategy to assess, prevent and address environmental racism and to advance environmental justice.

Dr. Wiebe appeared on the Chemical Sensitivity Podcast Interview discussing Everyday Exposures in Canada's Chemical Valley.

"A cross-country comparative analysis of congestion pricing systems: Lessons for decarbonizing transportation" is one of 10 cross-journal articles nominated for the Elsevier Atlas Award for its contribution to the topic of climate action.

School of Public Administration Adjunct Professor, Michael Atkinson, has just published, with his colleague Haizhen Mou, a new book, Fiscal Choices: Canada After the Pandemic. Published by University of Toronto Press

Dr. Katya Rhodes, Assistant Professor in the School of Public Administration was recenty interviewed by CBC News with Deana Sumanac-Johnson, the National Observer and Conversation Canada.

CBC published an interview with Katya, Matto Mildenberger and Christopher Ragan: The carbon tax has plagued the Liberals politically. Research says that's not surprising.