research initiative
Join us for an evening of dialogue and networking with Canada’s dynamic public policy community.
This year’s IRPP fall lecture will feature Canadian author and scholar Timothy Caulfield, one of North America’s foremost commentators on health and science misinformation and research ethics. He is a professor in the faculty of law and the School of Public Health at the University of Alberta, and the research director of the university’s Health Law Institute. Caulfield’s latest book, The Certainty Illusion, lifts the curtain on the forces contributing to our information chaos and unpacks why it’s so difficult — sometimes even for experts — to escape the fake.
The lecture will be followed by a lively cocktail reception that will bring together Parliamentarians, members of the public service, academics and those from the non-profit and private sectors.
Funds raised this year will go toward supporting a junior research associateship at the IRPP, as we cultivate the next generation of public policy thinkers. Junior researchers receive hands-on experience and mentorship in the production of rigorous, in-depth research on Canada’s toughest policy challenges.
The Centre of Excellence on the Canadian Federation is a permanent research body within the Institute for Research on Public Policy. Its mission is to build a deeper understanding of Canada as a federal community.
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