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
Professor Public Administration
Accepting graduate students
Office: By appointment only (dcastle@uvic.ca) dcastle@uvic.ca
Professor, Impact Chair in Transformative Governance for Planetary Health Public Administration
Professor and deputy provost Public Administration
Office: HSD A366 hkbenedi@uvic.ca
Lam Chair in Law and Public Policy, MPA program lead Public Administration
Office: FRA 220 rlapper@uvic.ca
Status: On leave until July 2025
Associate professor Public Administration
Accepting graduate students
Office: HSD A370 rtmarcy@uvic.ca
Status: On leave
Associate teaching professor Public Administration
Office: HSD A354 kspeers@uvic.ca
Assistant professor & graduate adviser Public Administration
Office: HSD A346 swiebe@uvic.ca
Staff
Kimberley Cook
Assistant to the director
padm-dir-asst@uvic.ca
250-721-8056
Vacant
Administrative officer
paadmin@uvic.ca
250-472-4196
Diane Garson
Indigenous community development and governance program manager
diploma_icdg@uvic.ca
250-472-4196
Stephen Leckie
Programs assistant, MACD/eval/undergraduate
paservice1@uvic.ca
250-721-8074
Andree-Anne Leroy
Co-operative education coordinator
spaco@uvic.ca
250-721-8064
Marlowe Morrison
Programs manager
pamanager@uvic.ca
250-721-8067
Darian Sernoski
Programs assistant, MPA programs
paservice@uvic.ca
250-721-6448
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
Sean.Darling@gov.bc.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
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: rogram 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@shaw.ca
Expertise: leadership, strategic planning, policy and legislation
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: Indigenous relations, federal government/Indigenous relations
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
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