Faculty & staff
Office
General inquiries
Email: padm@uvic.ca
Phone: 250-721-8055
Courier or in-person address
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3800 Finnerty Road
HSD Building, Room a302
Victoria BC V8P 5C2
Canada
Mailing address
School of Public Administration
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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