Professor Johnson received his PhD from the London School of Economics in 2000. His research and professional interests centre upon the governance of social policies aimed at reducing risk and vulnerability to chronic poverty, forced displacement and long-term environmental change...
Professor Sneyd’s recently published book analyzes how globalization might be altering the factors that have entrenched poverty across Africa south of the Sahara. He is interested in learning more about how new ideas and practices associated with corporate social...
Professor Sheldrick studied Political Science at Carleton University before going to law school at the University of Toronto. He then returned to the study of Political Science, completing his MA and PhD at York University in Toronto. He previously taught in the Law department at...
Professor Mau completed a D.Phil. at St Antony’s College, Oxford University where he was both a Commonwealth and SSHRC Doctoral Scholar. Prior to attending Oxford, he completed the Guelph-McMaster Collaborative M.A. in Public Policy and Administration and an Honours B.A. in Political...
Professor Lee received her B. A. (High Distinction) from the University of Toronto, majoring in Political Science, with a minor in Philosophy. She completed graduate studies at Princeton University, receiving both M. A. and Ph. D. degrees in Politics and Program in Political Philosophy. She...
I have a PhD is in International Relations from the London School of Economics. I am an Associate Professor in the department. From 1999 to 2002 I was Assistant Visiting Professor at the Ecole Superieure de Commerce de Paris (ESCP EUROPE). From 2002 to 2007 I was a Lecturer, then Senior...
Professor Baker is a graduate of the University of Toronto Faculty of Law and holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Calgary. His research focuses on the separation of powers, particularly the relationship between the courts and the representative branches. His book...
Professor Mancuso's principal thrust of her research agenda has been the areas of political ethics, corruption, and scandal.
As I readily acknowledge, it seems to be a field that never suffers a shortage of new case studies. My principal methodological technique has been...
Professor Small’s (PhD, Queen’s University) research is focused on the use of digital technologies by Canadian political elites. In addition to conducting research on e-campaigning in the last five Canadian federal elections, she has published work on Twitter, blogging by Canadian...
Professor Simmons received an MA and a PhD, both in political science and with a specialization in public policy, from the University of Toronto; and a BA (Hons) in Political Science with International Relations from the University of British Columbia.
...
Professor Clark received her PhD in Political Science from the University of Toronto, her MA in Political Science from Carleton University and her Bachelor of Environmental Studies in Geography from the University of Waterloo.
Professor Dauda received her PhD at the University of Toronto in 1999. Dauda’s previous research focused on comparative developing countries and she conducted research in Africa in the late 1990s on the effect of decentralization programs and the reform of local government institutions on...
Professor Spears teaches courses in international relations and the politics of developing areas (specifically Africa), however, his research interests have focused largely on problems and prospects for conflict and conflict resolution in African states. His earlier research concerned the...
Professor McKenzie is currently working on the second edition of her book, Environmental Politics in Canada with Oxford University Press. I hope to complete it by the end of summer 2011. Prior to gaining my PhD, I worked as an urban planner for approximately 10 years in the Ottawa area and...
Professor Simmons received an MA and a PhD, both in political science and with a specialization in public policy, from the University of Toronto; and a BA (Hons) in Political Science with International Relations from the University of British Columbia.
Simmons’ research interests centre on federalism, public policy and administration in Canada. In particular, she focuses on issues of democracy and accountability in federal-provincial relations. She is currently completing a book-length manuscript considering the tensions between deliberative and representative democracy evident in the role of non-governmental actors in the negotiation of intergovernmental agreements across a number of social and environmental policy initiatives in the 1990s. She is co-editing a volume entitled “Understanding and Explaining New Intergovernmental Accountability Regimes: Canada in Comparative Perspective” based on a recently completed SSHRC and IPAC funded collaborative research project. A separate avenue of her current research considers whether the governance framework for self-regulating health professions in the province of Ontario achieves the legislated goal of defending the public interest. A related project interrogates the nexus of reproductive autonomy, state oversight of the profession of midwifery, maternal empowerment and the public interest. Prior to her academic career she was briefly at the Ontario Ministry of Intergovernmental Affairs.
Simmons regularly teaches POLS 3210, The Constitution and Canadian Federalism, and each year looks forward to students’ participation in the simulation of a First Ministers meeting in this course. She is currently teaching POLS 4250 Problems in Public Management. This course emphasizes learning through case studies of real decision-making in the public service, and each week students work with others to analyze and solve policy and management problems, all the while exploring key concepts in public management. At the graduate level, Simmons regularly teaches POLS 6630 Approaches to Policy Analysis, a core course for students in the Guelph/McMaster Masters in Public Policy and Administration program. She has also taught POLS 1400, 2300, and 4260.
Political Science
5th Floor MacKinnon Bldg
University of Guelph
N1G 2W1
Ph: 519-824-4120 ext 52184
Fax: 519-822-7703
polsmail@uoguelph.ca
