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Public Administration

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

Image of Professor Jill Chouinard

Dr. Jill Anne Chouinard

Professor and director Public Administration

Office: HSD A320

Image of Professor Astrid Brousselle

Dr. Astrid Brousselle

Professor Public Administration

Accepting graduate students

Office: HSD A342

Image of Professor Emmanual Brunet-Jailly

Dr. Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly

Professor Public Administration

Office: HSD A350

Image of Professor David Castle

Dr. David Castle

Professor Public Administration

Accepting graduate students

Office: By appointment only (dcastle@uvic.ca)

Image of Professor Heather Castleton

Dr. Heather Castleden

Professor, Impact Chair in Transformative Governance for Planetary Health Public Administration

Image of Professor Bart Cunningham

Dr. Bart Cunningham

Status: On Leave until January 2026

Professor Public Administration

Office: HSD A356

Image of Professor Helga Hallgrimsdottir

Dr. Helga Hallgrímsdóttir

Professor and deputy provost Public Administration

Office: HSD A366

Image of Professor Tamara Krawchenko

Dr. Tamara Krawchenko

Associate professor Public Administration

Image of Professor Robert Lapper

Robert Lapper

Lam Chair in Law and Public Policy, MPA program lead Public Administration

Office: FRA 220

Image of Professor Walter Lepore

Dr. Walter Lepore

Assistant professor Public Administration

Office: HSD A360

Image of Professor Evert Lindquist

Dr. Evert Lindquist

Professor Public Administration

Office: HSD A334

Image of Professor Richard Marcy

Dr. Richard Marcy

Associate professor Public Administration

Accepting graduate students

Office: HSD A370

Image of Professor Astrid Perez Pinan

Dr. Astrid V. Pérez Piñán

Associate professor Public Administration

Image of Professor Katya Rhodes

Dr. Katya Rhodes

Status: On leave until July 2026

Associate professor Public Administration

Office: HSD A314

Image of Professor Lynne Siemen

Dr. Lynne Siemens

Status: On leave until January 2026

Associate professor Public Administration

Office: HSD A324

Image of Professor Kim Speers

Dr. Kim Speers

Associate teaching professor Public Administration

Office: HSD A354

Image of Professor Sussanne Thiessen

Dr. Susanne Thiessen

Assistant professor Public Administration

Image of Professor Sarah Marie Wiebe

Dr. Sarah Wiebe

Associate Professor & Graduate Adviser Public Administration

Accepting graduate students

Office: HSD A346

Staff

Aileen Chong
Assistant to the director
aileenc@uvic.ca
250-721-8056

Kimberley Cook
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

Katie Rowe
Co-operative Education Assistant

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: 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@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

PhD candidates