Dr. Malcolm Bird
University of Winnipeg
I am fascinated by how Canadians choose to govern themselves, and thoroughly enjoy working with future civil servants in the MPA program. In my courses, I hope to transmit my enthusiasm for public policy and administration by providing a basic framework for how Canada’s governing institutions operate as well as working with students to sharpen their written and oral communication skills. My research looks at the evolution of Canadian state-owned enterprises, and how they manage numerous, divergent and oftentimes complex demands from many sources, especially from their single shareholders. I am also the MPA cooperative coordinator where I connect MPA students to fabulous employment opportunities in the Manitoba civil service and other public sector organizations.
Dr. Linda DeRiviere
University of Winnipeg
Linda DeRiviere served as Chair of the Political Science Department at the University of Winnipeg from 2016-19 and MPA Chair in the joint University of Winnipeg/University of Manitoba MPA program from 2020-22. She has expertise and teaching experience in quantitative research methods, program evaluation, and public finance. She has published policy and evaluation studies on a wide range of topics in a research program that is interdisciplinary, participatory, and community based. More recently, she is a Co-investigator on a 3-year SSHRC Insight Grant for a project titled “Staying Motivated: A Life Course Analysis of the Career Paths of Canadian Public Servants.”
Dr. Karine Levasseur
University of Manitoba
Prior to arriving at UM, Dr. Levasseur was a policy manager for the Government of Manitoba. Her research challenges the discipline of public administration in Canada to diversify itself from this traditional emphasis on bureaucrats and elected officials given the international shift towards more collaborative and horizontal forms of governing. Sometimes referred to as collaborative governance by some or co-production by others, these new forms of governing are more porous and open to non-state actors such as charities, non-profit organizations, Indigenous communities, and so forth. The result is a system of governance whereby non-state actors have a meaningful role to play in governing and thus government must share its power with them and open-up the public policy decision-making process. Dr. Levasseur has been published in leading international books/journals including International Review of Administrative Sciences, Voluntary Sector Review, Social Policy & Administration, and Oxford University Handbook of Public Administration for Social Policy.
Dr. Andrea Rounce
University of Manitoba
Dr. Rounce teaches and researches on public administration, public policy, research methods and public opinion. Her work has appeared in various journals including Canadian Public Administration, Journal of Aging and Social Change, International Review of Administrative Sciences and others. She is the co-editor of several books on Manitoba elections, including Disengaged? Fixed Date, Democracy, and Understanding the 2011 Manitoba Election with Dr. Jared J. Wesley. Andrea is committed to bridging theory and practice and to sharing academic research with wider audiences. She recently co-edited the open access volume COVID-19 in Manitoba: Public Policy Responses to the First Wave with Dr. Karine Levasseur.
