Faculty & staff
Office
General inquiries
Email: padm@uvic.ca
Phone: 250-721-8055
Courier or in-person address
University of Victoria
3800 Finnerty Road
HSD Building, Room a302
Victoria BC V8P 5C2
Canada
Mailing address
School of Public Administration
University of Victoria
PO Box 1700 STN CSC
Victoria BC V8W 2Y2
Canada
Faculty
Professor and director Public Administration
Office: HSD A320 jchouinard@uvic.ca
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Program evaluation, developing/adapting culturally responsive methodologies, evaluator engagement and community change, teaching evaluation, critiques of epistemology in evaluation/social sciences, ethics & collaborative practice, equity & community coalitions
Professor Public Administration
Office: HSD A342 astrid@uvic.ca
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Evaluation approaches and methods, planetary health, theory-based evaluation, ecological transition, public health, health system analysis, collaborative/participative/community-based approaches, qualitative methods
Professor Public Administration
Office: HSD A350 ebrunetj@uvic.ca
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Border studies: border disputes, border security, border management, management of cross border regions, European Union: regional and urban policies, immigration and border security policies, Canada-United States border policies
Professor Public Administration
Office: By appointment only (dcastle@uvic.ca) dcastle@uvic.ca
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Science, technology and innovation policy, focused on open science, data governance, and biodiversity conservation
Professor, Impact Chair in Transformative Governance for Planetary Health Public Administration
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Transformative governance, planetary health, decolonizing energy, decolonizing the academy, climate change, climate justice, climate displacement, renewable energy water, social justice, environmental racism, health equity, Indigenous-settler relations, research ethics, relationality, accountability, Indigenous rights, critical methods, anti-colonial, anti-racist, participatory methods, qualitative inquiry, community-based participatory research
Status: On Leave until January 2026
Professor Public Administration
Office: HSD A356 bcunning@uvic.ca
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Human resource issues, leadership, organizational behaviour and change, insight problem solving, stress and mental health, action learning and research
Professor and deputy provost Public Administration
Office: HSD A366 hkbenedi@uvic.ca
- Area(s) of expertise:
- citizenship and citizen participation, governance and participatory governance, collective bargaining and dispute resolution in the public sector, social movements, protest and contentious politics, welfare states and social policy, gender and sexuality, work and social vulnerability, labour movements, labour and union politics
Status: On leave until September 2026
Associate Professor Public Administration
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Comparative public policy, regional development, sustainability transitions, industrial policy, research methods
Lam Chair in Law and Public Policy, MPA program lead Public Administration
Office: FRA 220 rlapper@uvic.ca
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Justice system policy and reform, access to justice, Indigenous law and legal issues, technology and design in law and policy
Assistant professor Public Administration
Office: HSD A360 walepore@uvic.ca
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Organizational analysis and design, organizational performance assessment, program and policy monitoring and evaluation, strategic planning, transparency, accountability, corruption and conflict of interests in the public sector, public sector reforms, mixed methods research, experimental research designs, community-based participatory research, capacity development in participatory research, community-university research partnerships, community development
Professor Public Administration
Office: HSD A334 evert@uvic.ca
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Public sector and public service reform, designing and implementing policy interventions, digital and collaborative governance, horizontal governance and administration to support policy interventions, organizing for policy and administrative innovation, role and influence of think tanks in policy networks, competing values in public sector leadership and reform
Associate professor Public Administration
Office: HSD A370 rtmarcy@uvic.ca
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Public and non-profit sector, leadership and management, cognition in organizations, social innovation, non-violent avant-gardes on the left and right, autism and employment
Associate professor Public Administration
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Decolonial feminism, transnational and Indigenous feminisms, global sustainable development, diverse economies/economic development and wellbeing, colonization and decolonization, reproductive justice, food sovereignty, global South/Latin America, the Caribbean/Puerto Rico, Africa
Status: On leave until July 2026
Associate professor Public Administration
Office: HSD A314 krhodes@uvic.ca
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Multi-attribute climate policy analysis, political economy of climate policy, pro-environmental behaviour, survey-based methods, energy-economy modelling, comparative climate policy
Status: On leave until January 2026
Associate professor Public Administration
Office: HSD A324 siemensl@uvic.ca
Associate teaching professor Public Administration
Office: HSD A354 kspeers@uvic.ca
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Performance measurement, project and program management, food policy and politics, animal policy and politics, business and strategic planning in government, local government and administration, management consulting and the public sector
Associate Professor & Graduate Adviser Public Administration
Office: HSD A346 spaadvisor@uvic.ca swiebe@uvic.ca
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Environmental justice, public engagement, critical policy studies, climate emergencies and displacement, states of emergency, interpretive research and arts-based methods, community development, Indigenous community engagement and governance
Staff
Aileen Chong
Assistant to the director
aileenc@uvic.ca
250-721-8056
Kimberley Cook
Academic Administrative officer
kimberleycook@uvic.ca
250-472-4196
Marlowe Morrison
Programs manager
marlowem@uvic.ca
250-721-8067
Diane Garson
Indigenous community development and governance program manager
icdg@uvic.ca
250-472-4196
Darian Sernoski
Programs assistant, MPA programs, PhD
paservice@uvic.ca
250-721-6448
Stephen Leckie
Programs assistant, MACD/Evaluation/Undergraduate
paservice1@uvic.ca
250-721-8074
Andrée-Anne Leroy
Co-operative education coordinator
spaco@uvic.ca
250-721-8064
Adjunct professors
Hassan Arif, adjunct professor
arif.h9@gmail.com
Expertise: sociology of law, urban development, environmental sociology
Faculty of Graduate Studies associate member: student co-supervisor
Michael Atkinson, adjunct professor
michael.atkinson@usask.ca
matkinson@uvic.ca
Expertise: contemporary governance, public administration public policy, political corruption and political ethics, K-12 education policy, fiscal rules and governance
Faculty of Graduate Studies associate member: Student co-supervisor
Herman Bakvis, adjunct professor
hbakvis@uvic.ca
Expertise: federalism, comparative public policy, party and election financing, minority government, coalition government: implications for governance, policy and intergovernmental relations, governance challenges
Faculty of Graduate Studies associate member: Student co-supervisor
Maria Barnes, adjunct assistant professor
maria.barnes@servicecanada.gc.ca
Expertise: public sector management
Faculty of Graduate Studies associate member: Student co-supervisor
Tracy Byrne, adjunct assistant professor
tracy.byrne@insideoutresearch.ca
Expertise: social and health policy and practice
Sean Darling, adjunct assistant professor
sddarlin@uvic.ca
Expertise: program, project and investment management; small business growth and regulatory reform; policy development, implementation and evaluation of strategic policy initiatives
Faculty of Graduate Studies associate member: Student co-supervisor
Mason Ducharme, adjunct assistant professor
masonducharme1@gmail.com
Expertise: Indigenous governance and self-government; executive leadership and retention; human resources and organizational development; Indigenous law and policy; First Nations—Federal fiscal relations; community-based research; workshop facilitation and participatory methods; strategic planning, and governance modernization
Faculty of Graduate Studies associate member: co-supervisor only
Malcolm Gaston,adjunct assistant professor
malkie@shaw.ca
Expertise: role and value of legislative audits, accountability in the public sector, governance and oversight through boards, performance reporting, quality reviews
Faculty of Graduate Studies associate member: co-supervision only
Budd Hall, adjunct professor
bhall@uvic.ca
Expertise: community-based participatory research, social responsibility of higher education, knowledge democracy, social movement learning and the UN Sustainable Development Goals
Faculty of Graduate Studies associate member: student supervisor
Jennifer Hall, adjunct assistant professor
jjhall0405@gmail.com
Expertise: program and policy development, local government project planning and implementation
Faculty of Graduate Studies associate member: student supervisor
Yvonne Harrison, adjunct assistant professor
yharrison@uvic.ca
Expertise: non-profit leadership, evaluation
Faculty of Graduate Studies associate member: student co-supervisor
Newman Lam, adjunct professor
nmklan@gmail.com
Expertise: economic development strategies, performance measurement civil service reform, public budgeting, public pension, information theory and systems
John Langford, adjunct professor
jlangfor@uvic.ca
Expertise: ethics in government, Canadian government and politics, machinery of government
Nikki Macdonald, adjunct assistant professor
nikkimac65@gmail.com
Expertise: ocean policy, transboundary governance, public policy and decision-making, narrative analysis, governance, Canadian politics
Faculty of Graduate Studies associate member: student supervisor
Jim MacGregor, adjunct professor
jmacgreg@uvic.ca
Expertise: organizational behavior, human information processing, information retrieval, problem solving
Faculty of Graduate Studies associate member: student supervisor
Jim McDavid, adjunct professor
jmcdavid@uvic.ca
Expertise: program evaluation, performance measurement and performance management, local government
Faculty of Graduate Studies associate member: student supervisor
Victor (Vic) Murray, adjunct professor
vmurray@uvic.ca
Expertise: non-profit leadership, evaluation
Faculty of Graduate Studies associate member: student supervisor
Robert Newell, adjunct assistant professor
rob.1newell@royalroads.ca
Expertise: community climate action; integrated planning
Faculty of Graduate Studies associate member: doctoral student co-supervisor
Tara Ney, adjunct associate professor
tney@uvic.ca
Expertise: collaborative decision-making processes, systems, and governance; redress processes, social healing and trauma; discursive approaches to policy analysis
Faculty of Graduate Studies associate member: student supervisor
Terry Poucette, adjunct assistant professor
terry.poucette@ucalgary.ca
Expertise: traditional Indigenous governance and practices in contemporary Indigenous governance, role of indigenous women in self-governance, decolonization and nation rebuilding, First Nations’ economic development
Faculty of Graduate Studies associate member: student co-supervisor
Carol-Anne Rolf, adjunct assistant professor
crolf@uvic.ca
Expertise: Public policy and legislation analysis and development, leadership, strategic planning
Rajesh Tandon, adjunct assistant professor
rtandon142@gmail.com
Expertise: democratic governance, civic engagement, civil society, governance and management of NGOs, participatory research and people-centered development
Sam Weller, adjunct assistant professor
sam.weller@shaw.ca
Expertise: public financial management (esp. local government)
Veda Weselake, adjunct assistant professor
veda@ncf.ca
Expertise: Metis history and culture; Metis identity, rights and governance; Crown-First Nations relations; dispute resolution and peacebuilding; treaties and other agreements involving Indigenous peoples
Okenge Yuma Morisho, Deputy Minister, Ministry of Municipal Affairs, adjunct professor
okenge@hotmail.com
Expertise: public sector management, leadership and strategy. Federal and provincial policy development and implementation
Faculty of Graduate Studies associate member: co-supervision only
Mark Zacharias, adjunct assistant professor
mark.a.zacharias@gmail.com
Expertise: Climate, energy, and natural resource policy, international marine law and policy, public policy
Faculty of Graduate Studies associate member: co-supervision only
Sessional instructors
Kevin Andrew
kevinandrew@uvic.ca
Hassan Arif
arif.h9@gmail.com
Maria Barnes
maria.barnes@servicecanada.gc.ca
Ottilia Berze
oberze@shaw.ca
Sean Broadbent
sbroadbent@uvic.ca
Ryan Bortolin
rbortolin@sms.bc.ca
Rob Buchan
rbuchan@shaw.ca
Natasha Caverley
natashac@uvic.ca
Elsie Chan
esfchan@uvic.ca
Derek Cockburn
derek.cockburn@gov.bc.ca
Jennifer Hall
jkhall@telus.net
Peter Johnson
pjohnson@sms.bc.ca
Harish Jagannath
Harish.Jagannath@gov.bc.ca
Monique Lacerte
Monique.Lacerte@gov.bc.ca
Kristen Mikkelsen
kiri.mikkelsen@gmail.com
Ellie Parks
eparks@telus.net
Brant Popp
bpopp@shaw.ca
Aureleo Reyes
apreyes@uvic.ca
Roya Rouzbehani
royarouzbehani@uvic.ca
Kathryn Stuart
kstuart@sms.bc.ca
Brian Vatne
brvatne@gmail.com
Thea Vakil
tvakil@uvic.ca
Tara Williamson
taraw@uvic.ca
Emeriti professors
Herman Bakvis, adjunct professor
hbakvis@uvic.ca
Robert (Bob) L. Bish
rbish@uvic.ca
James Cutt
Lynda Gagne, adjunct assistant professor
lgagne@uvic.ca
Budd Hall, adjunct professor
bhall@uvic.ca
John J. Jackson
jjj1@shaw.ca
Jim MacGregor, adjunct professor
jmacgreg@uvic.ca
Jim McDavid, adjunct professor
jmcdavid@uvic.ca
Tara Ney, adjunct associate professor
tney@uvic.ca
Hartmut (Hart) J. Will
hwill@uvic.ca
Post-doctoral fellows
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Post-doctoral fellow Public Administration
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Post-doctoral fellow Public Administration
PhD candidates
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PhD candidate Public Administration
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PhD candidate Public Administration
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PhD candidate Public Administration
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PhD candidate Public Administration
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PhD candidate Public Administration
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PhD candidate Public Administration
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PhD candidate Public Administration
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PhD candidate Public Administration