October 22

Winner of the Sixth annual National Student Paper Competition

Winner of the Sixth annual National Student Paper Competition


The winners of the Grand Prize for the Sixth Annual National Student Paper Competition were Aleisha White and Jules Bagshaw for their paper “Nation-to-Nation in the Information Age: In Data we Trust”.
Please find their paper and their presentation here. This was the second time candidates from Carleton’s MPA program won!

Joining them as finalists were graduate students from the University of Saskatchewan’s MPA program, Vancouver Island University’s MBA program, Queen’s MSc program in Psychology, and McGill University’s MA program in Political Science. The titles of their respective papers are:

- An Epidemic of Incompetence: Tracing the Roots of the Canadian Opioid Crisis
- Modernizing Social Science Training: Data Science and the Social Sciences
- Giving voice to the People: Use of Citizen Juries in Shaping Governance of Digital Health Data in Canada
- Reconciliating the Indigenous Doctor Shortage Gap: Social Change through a Collaborative Community Empowered Network

These papers can be found here: View the other top five finalists

Be ready for the November 18th launch of the Seventh Annual National Student Paper Competition and consult IPAC’s website for deadlines and coordinator information this autumn.