Aquaculture Partnerships Project - Advocates of marine aquaculture tout its potential to help meet the growing global demand for seafood while providing critical economic opportunities for coastal communities. This research project investigates 10 marine aquaculture partnerships located across the coastal United States. The study will contribute to our understanding of best management practices in collaborative governance, particularly for policy disputes marked by high conflict and technical uncertainty. It is funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation Grant.
Institutional Analysis and Development Symposium - In April 2010, the School of Public Affairs (SPA) and the Policy Studies Journal held a symposium featuring presentations on the Institutional Analysis and Development (IAD) framework by distinguished IAD scholars, and SPA faculty members and students. Elinor Ostrom, who won the Nobel Prize in economics in 2009 for her work on economic governance and the commons, participated and was the symposium’s keynote speaker.
PARTNER - Program to Analyze, Record, and Track Networks to Enhance Relationships - PARTNER is a social network analysis tool designed to measure and monitor collaboration among people and organizations over time. The tool is designed for use by members of a collaborative (three or more partners) to demonstrate how members are connected, how resources are leveraged and exchanged, the levels of trust, and to link outcomes to the process of collaboration. The tool includes an online survey that can be administered to collect data, and a program that analyzes these data.
Place and Native Voice - The Place and Native Voice (PNV) Project is a creation of The University of Colorado Denver’s School of Public Affairs and the National Park Service (NPS). Founded with a grant from the NPS Rocky Mountain Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit in 2004, the Project has both an educational component and a federal workforce enhancement component. The PNV Project trains Native American Indian college and university students to work as cultural resource interpreters. Continued funding for the comes from both the Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit and from the Intermountain Regional Headquarters of the National Park Service.
Workshop on Policy Process Research - The Workshop on Policy Process Research brings faculty and students together to study the interactions between people and public policy. The Workshop on Policy Process Research applies and strengthens frameworks, theories, and models. The analytical and substantive purview of the Workshop on Policy Process Research is generic and flexible.
Policy Studies Journal - The Policy Studies Journal (PSJ) is the premier publication for public policy research. PSJ is an outlet for theoretically and empirically grounded research on the policy process and policy analysis.
Public Administration Review - Public Administration Review, a bi-monthly scholarly journal, has been the preeminent journal in the field of public administration research and theory for more than 60 years.
Social Construction Workshop - The School of Public Affairs held a two-day workshop on the genesis, conceptualization, application, and critique of the Social Construction Framework on May 5-6, 2009 with distinguished guests Professor Helen Ingram of the University of California, Irvine, Professor Anne Schneider of Arizona State University and Professor Peter May of the University of Washington. The workshop also featured presentations by alumni and students from the School of Public Affairs.