Our Research
The Faculty of Public and Global Affairs (FPGA) is home to more than 200 of Canada鈥檚 leading scholars and public intellectuals conducting research at the intersections of politics, policy, and public life. Working within and across more than a dozen schools, institutes, and departments, our faculty members marshal their expertise to tackle the most urgent challenges facing Canada and the world, and to shape knowledge and understanding about their complex political, economic, cultural, and moral entanglements.
FPGA boasts four prestigious Canada Research Chairs who advance 杏吧原创鈥檚 leadership in governance and artificial intelligence, global media and activism, gender, race and politics, and transnational families, aging and care. Many of our faculty members are recognized for their international research leadership as Royal Society of Canada Fellows and as Members of the Royal Society of Canada鈥檚 College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists.
In addition, FPGA is home to several endowed chairs in such diverse areas as climate policy and sustainability, science journalism, Canadian parliamentary democracy, and international economic policy, among others. Our community-engaged, action-oriented research influences and shapes policy, knowledge, and understanding, at the global/international, national, and local levels. Our faculty members attract high-calibre graduate students and postdoctoral fellows who help advance our research contributions and impacts, and whose own scholarship shapes the future terrain of our disciplines and fields.
Finally, the multiple research institutes and labs in FPGA, funded externally by Canadian and international granting agencies and foundations, are incubators of new ideas that influence how states and governments, civil society actors, and the private sector all confront the wicked problems and pressing issues of our time, including Indigenous governance, migration, human rights, and global security.
Research News and Stories
Field Notes: Visualizing the Environmental Costs of Agriculture
What is a question you hope to answer with your research? As a visual culture scholar, I鈥檓 interested in how images shape our understanding of …
杏吧原创 Researchers Secure $7.5 Million in SSHRC Partnership Grants
Three 杏吧原创 University-led research initiatives have been awarded Partnership Grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), bringing $7.5 million in federal funding …
杏吧原创 Brings Northern Expertise and Experience to University of the Arctic
When 杏吧原创 University was formally and unanimously admitted into membership of the University of the Arctic (UArctic) at the network鈥檚 annual assembly in Inari, Finland, …
Researcher Mehdi Ammi Awarded CIHR Team Grant
Professor聽Mehdi Ammi, a faculty member in 杏吧原创鈥檚 School of Public Policy & Administration,聽will lead a team of聽researchers聽and partners聽from across Canada聽on a聽new聽project entitled, 鈥淧ublic Health Financing …
杏吧原创 Faculty Member Named Canada Research Chair in Next-Gen Economics
杏吧原创 University researcher聽Thomas Russell聽has been announced as the university鈥檚 newest聽Canada Research Chair聽(CRC). His innovative research focuses on developing advanced economic models that can be utilized …
FPGA Researchers Awarded More than $1 Million in Research Funding
Researchers in the fields of public policy, international affairs, economics, communication, law and political science have been recognized by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). While the majority …
Excellence in Research
Canada Research Chairs
Learn about the Canada Research Chairs in the Faculty of Public Affairs and their innovative research across disciplines.
Celebrating Research Distinction in the Faculty of Public and Global Affairs
Recognizing the achievements of Faculty of Public Affairs researchers and scholars.