CoG NEWS: Inaugural Issue
A Word of Welcome
FROM THE DIRECTOR
On behalf of the team at the Centre on Governance, I would like to welcome you to our Newsletter. I hope that you will continue to read our occasional emails that will keep our readers informed of our research, our events, and the general news about the Centre. Most of all, we hope that you will keep in touch with us. If you have any questions or would like to send us comments, please contact us via email, Twitter, LinkedIn, or visit our website.

Eric Champagne, PhD
Director of the Centre on Governance
UPCOMING EVENTS
De la nature et du rôle des groupes d'instrument dans le développement des politiques publiques
The Centre on Governance has the pleasure to invite you to attend a webinar offered by Prof. Daniel Béland:

Wednesday, December 9
2:30 - 4:00 pm


In French only.
PAST EVENTS
GOVERNANCE AND GLOBALIZATION
The Centre on Governance hosted three webinars as part of the course POL 7509 Governance and Globalization taught by Prof. Sylvie Paquerot.

Our guests were Prof. Gabriel Blouin-Genest of Université de Sherbrooke, Dr. Oliver Liang from the International Labour Organisation, and Prof. Eric Champagne of the University of Ottawa.
CONGRATULATIONS
PIERRE DE CELLES AWARD
The Centre on Governance is very pleased to announce that Professor Eric Champagne, professor at the School of Political Studies and director of the Centre, is the 2020 winner of the Pierre De Celles Award given out by the Institute of Public Administration of Canada (IPAC) and the Canadian Association of Programs in Public Administration (CAPPA).

Congratulations!
ONGOING PROJECTS
PROJECT ON WATER AND GOVERNANCE
Water Law and Governance, under the Smart Changes for a Better World heading and funded by the Alex Trebek Forum for Dialogue, is a joint project of the University of Ottawa’s Public Law Centre, the Centre for Environmental Law and Global Sustainability and the Centre on Governance.
This multidisciplinary project will foster dialogue between scholars, government, special interest groups and the general public on pressing public policy issues related to water. The goal is to use water as a lens to identify problems created by climate change and the ramifications, and to make multi-level recommendations- national and international, provincial and municipal.
The project team consists of 15 researchers, both from the uOttawa and other universities, and will be led by Marie-France Fortin (Civil Law, uOttawa).
CoG PROFESSORS RECEIVE SSHRC GRANTS
Congratulations to Professor Nathalie Burlone, and Professor Jonathan Paquette who have each been awarded a SSHRC Insight Grant! Congratulations also to Professor Christopher Cooper who received a SSHRC Insight Development Grant!

Projects

Construire et reconstruire l'aide médicale à mourir au Canada: une entrée par la pratique
- Professor Nathalie Burlone

Patrimoine et décolonisations au sein de l'espace culturel francophone
- Professor Jonathan Paquette

The Online Political Activity of Public Sector Employees
- Professor Christopher Cooper
JONATHAN PAQUETTE APPOINTED A NEW RESEARCH CHAIR
Dr. Jonathan Paquette is a research director at CoG and a professor at the School of Political Studies who studies colonialism and cultural heritage policies in Francophone regions.

This chair, International Francophonie Research Chair on Cultural Heritage Policies, seeks to apply political analysis to deepen our understanding of the links between heritage policies and the decolonization of cultural heritage in Francophone areas of the world.


CoG JOURNALS PUBLISH NEW ISSUES
The Centre on Governance is pleased to announce the new issues of journals Culture and Local Governance and Governance Review.

The new issue of Culture and Local Governance (Vol. 6, No. 2) edited by Jonathan Paquette, Constance DeVereaux, Todd Dellinger, and Sharon Jeannotte is now available on Érudit.

The second issue of 2019 for journal Governance Review (Vol.16, No. 2), edited by Nathalie Burlone and Anne Mévellec, is also now available on Érudit.

Vol. 17, No. 1 is available here.
CONGRATULATIONS TO GRAD STUDENTS ON RECEIVING CoG SCHOLARSHIPS
The following students received The Centre on Governance Research Excellence Scholarship valued at $2000 each:

Robin Nelson
Kamal Taki
Rebecca Grace Vachon

The Centre on Governance and the Forum of Federations are happy to announce the inaugural winner of their new Doctoral Scholarship for the Study of Federalism.  

Offered twice a year and valued at $6,400, this scholarship aims to support research by aiding students who produce significant work in the field of federal governance.

Congratulations to winner Nikola Brassard-Dion, a recent graduate of the doctoral program in Political Science.
FINAL PRESENTATIONS AND CERTIFICATE CEREMONY IN UNIVERSITY GOVERNANCE
Between August 2019 and February 2020, the Centre on Governance had the pleasure of hosting nine academic administrators from Burkina Faso, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Senegal, and Vietnam, as part of a research and training internship program in university governance. Since February, these administrators have returned home and have been developing, in collaboration with their academic supervisors and professional mentors, an action plan to solve a problem specific to their respective universities. The program was funded by Global Affairs Canada through the Programme canadien de bourses de la Francophonie (PCBF), which is led by Director Tony Toufic.
The final presentations on February 20, 2020 marked the end of the first phase of this program. The ceremony was attended by university representatives, diplomatic representatives of the participating countries, professional mentors and academic supervisors, instructors who offered the training during the program, as well as the members of the PCBF, Global Affairs Canada, the Agence universitaire de la Francophonie, and of the Centre on Governance.
COVID-19 ONGOING PROJECTS
FIRST REPORT ON THE WHO GLOBAL RESPONSE TO COVID-19
The Centre on Governance is very pleased to announce the publication of the first research report on COVID-19 and the WHO’s communication strategy in collaboration with the University of Sherbrooke.
Communicating Risk/Risky Communication, written by a team including Prof. Gabriel Blouin-Genest (UdeS), Prof. Eric Champagne (UOttawa), Prof. Nathalie Burlone (UOttawa), Prof. Mélissa Généreux (UdeS) and researchers Natalia Torres Orozco (UdeS) and Dr. Anna Bogic (UOttawa), is an exploratory research report on the WHO’s communication and actions at the start of the crisis.

ARTICLE ON THE WHO'S COMMUNICATION STRATEGY PUBLISHED IN THE CONVERSATION
The Centre on Governance was very happy to participate together with the University of Sherbrooke in the publication of the article, "The WHO’s risky communication strategy created confusion around COVID-19," in The Conversation based on the collaborative research report on the World Health Organization’s global communication strategy in response to COVID-19. 

SYMPOSIUM ON UNIVERSITY GOVERNANCE AND COVID-19
Professor Eric Champagne took part in a symposium on university governance on June 29, 2020. The symposium titled "Réimaginer l’internationalisation dans le contexte de la COVID-19" was organized by the Canadian Bureau for International Education.

UNIVERSITY GOVERNANCE IN TIMES OF CRISIS: THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA SHARES HIS EXPERIENCE
The Center on Governance is actively involved in the implementation of the COVID-19 Special Pandemic Plan by the Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF). This video series aims to mobilize testimonials from senior officials of academic institutions around the world in order to highlight the various Francophone experiences and to share them, and at the same time to elucidate the mechanisms that make it possible to anticipate and manage risks, crises and crisis recovery, in the context of the COVID 19 health crisis.

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