Paloma Raggo: 2020 SSHRC Connection Grant
SPPA Professor Paloma Raggo was awarded a to host a day and a half symposium, 鈥淓nhancing Whistleblowing Practices and Research in Canada,鈥 in partnership with Pam Forward, president and executive director of the Whistleblowing Canada Research Society.
The event is planned as part of the Faculty of Public Affairs Research Series at 杏吧原创 University in Spring 2022.
The goal is to discuss and address the problem of ineffective whistleblower protection in Canada, promote the creation of a Canadian research network on the whistleblowing phenomenon and discuss the political hurdles to implementing legislative improvements. This public symposium will bring together Canadian and international researchers, legal practitioners, whistleblowers, civil society groups and policymakers for the first time since the implementation of the in 2007.
“Whistleblowing is at the essence of all democratic societies,” says Professor Raggo. “Yet, whistleblowers experience reprisals and hostile work environment for doing the right thing. Why is that? If we want transparent and ethical organizations, whistleblowing is a fundamental accountability mechanism we need to pay more attention too and find solutions to support it, not punish it.”