SPP faculty are at the cutting edge of policy research across various disciplines and focus areas such as social policy, sustainability policy, international policy, leadership and management, philosophy and nonprofit, science and technology studies. This showcase will highlight our faculty’s recent and ongoing research with lightning talks across different policy areas. It showcases the highest quality research on a wide variety of important current and emerging policy and management issues.
There will also be direct interactions with dozens of SPP faculty researchers where you will learn more about their work. Come enjoy lunch with colleagues, students, other units on campus and policy research funders.
Schedule:
12:00pm-12:10pm Opening Remarks
12:10pm-12:30pm Session 1: Diversity and equity considerations in policymaking and evaluations?
- Jiehong Lou – Income and Racial Disparity in Household Publicly Available EV Infrastructure Accessibility in the United States, and Insights on County-Specific Policies for Promoting EV Adoption
- Juan Pablo Martinez Guzman – Equitable Design: How Can Participatory Budgeting Enhance the Voice of Underrepresented Minorities?
- Apolonia Calderon – The Politics of Giving in Communities of Color
- Moderator: Claire Dunning
12:30pm-12:55pm Session 2: Security Policy and International Policy I
- Nancy Gallagher – Nukes in Space?
- Alec Worsnop – Rebels Fire and Maneuver Too: How Military Cadres Sustains Insurgent Warfare
- Charlie Harry - Assessing Cybersecurity Vulnerability Across US County Government Networks
- Meg Brindle – Intellectual Property and Trade strategies
- Moderator: Claire Dunning
12:55pm-1:15pm Session 3: Leadership and Management
- Cullen C. Merritt – Service Shaming in Academia: What It Is, Why It Matters, and How to Stop It
- Nathan Dietz – Social Connectedness and Generosity: A Look at How Associational Life and Social Connections Influence Volunteering and Giving (and Vice Versa)
- Rob Sprinkle – The Wages of Cynicism: American statecraft from an outcomes perspective
- Moderator: John Ronquillo
1:15pm-1:40pm Session 4: International Policy II
- Catherine Worsnop – Capacity is political: information sharing during COVID-19
- Tom Hilde – Biomass energy, mining, land use change, and time in Indonesia
- Anand Patwardhan – What's a good life: Seeking global perspectives to redefine well-being
- Josh Shifrinson - Why Strategy Goes Wrong
- Moderator: John Ronquillo
1:40pm-2:05pm Session 5: Social Policy
- Angela Bies - Beyond Three Failures Theory: Regulating Providers, Funding Care and Situating the Family in Eating Disorder Treatment
- Susan W. Parker – Shaping Tomorrow: The Medium- and Longer-run Impacts of Mexico’s Universal Preprimary Mandate
- Shanna Pearson-Merkowitz – Public Housing Residents: resident's opinions and housing authority planning
- Peter Reuter – Unraveling some modern mysteries about illegal drug supply
- Moderator: John Ronquillo
2:05pm-2:30pm: Networking