Alison Cullen, professor and interim dean of the Evans School of Public Policy & Governance at the University of Washington, has received a $2 million grant from the National Science Foundation to study simultaneous “megafires” and the future management of wildfire risk.
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Rachel Fyall and Matt Fowle Awarded COVID-19 Research Grants
Rachel Fyall and Matt Fowle received two grants from the West Coast Poverty Center and the UW Population Health Initiative.
The West Coast Poverty Center Grant involves working with the Tenants Union to understand the experiences of low-income renters during the COVID-19 pandemic, including the impacts on tenants’ housing security over the course of the crisis and their reports about the extent to which landlords comply with eviction moratoria and other policies seeking to reduce the likelihood of eviction.
The Population Health Initiative Project aims to answer: What is the nature and extent of housing-related hardships experienced by low-income renters of color in Washington State during the COVID-19 pandemic? It will explore tenants’ efforts to secure and maintain housing, perceptions of landlord compliance with eviction moratoria and rent freezes, and concerns about entering homelessness. In doing so, the project will uncover the role of racial/ethnic identity and community of residence in shaping the variation in racial housing inequality amidst a pandemic and its subsequent implications for population health equity.
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Distinguished Practitioner Akhtar Badshah is set to publish Purpose Mindset: How Microsoft Inspires its Employees and Alumni to Change the World
Dr. Badshah is working on his manuscript Purpose Mindset: How Microsoft Inspires its Employees and Alumni to Change the World, to be published by Harper Collins Leadership series in the fall of 2020. The book traces the evolution of Microsoft’s employee giving campaign from its modest beginning of raising $17,000 in 1983 to raising $181 million in 2019, outlining the impact this giving has had on thousands of nonprofits around the world. Through stories of Microsoft leadership, employees, and alumni the book amplifies how these individuals have extended their growth mindset and developed their purpose mindset to make the world a better place.
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Interim Dean Alison Cullen receives grant to research to understand vulnerability of west coast fishing communities to climate change
The California Current Ecosystem (CCE), which brings cold, nutrient-rich waters to the U.S. West Coast, supports a wide range of important fisheries off California, Oregon, and Washington. In recent years, climate-driven changes in the CCE – from warming temperatures to ocean acidification and toxic algal blooms – are disrupting ocean habitats and species, and by extension the social and economic fabric of fishing communities on the coast. To better understand these changes, the Lenfest Ocean Program is funding Dr. Phillip Levin, The Nature Conservancy/University of Washington, and Dr. Alison Cullen, University of Washington, to assess the social and ecological vulnerability of fishing communities along the U.S. West Coast to changing ocean conditions.
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Ph.D. Candidate Amy Beck Harris published a chapter in the Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance
Harris’s chapter, entitled “Public Participation in Procurement,” springs from her dissertation, which investigates how international development programs involve contract and grant beneficiaries. The chapter outlines existing literature on participation in the contract state, and lays out a research agenda for other scholars interested in studying the intersection of democratic processes and privatization. Read more.
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Assistant Professors Ines Jurcevic and Rachel Fyall publish paper in the Journal of Behavioral Public Administration
Across two experiments, Jurcevic and Fyall found that the way nonprofits communicate their diversity values affects whether stakeholders are engaged or repelled. White and racial minority stakeholders react in different ways, depending on how nonprofits frame their values. Jurcevic and Fyall examined diversity frames commonly used in the nonprofit sector and find that nonprofits should take a different approach to communicating their diversity values than for-profit firms. Read more.
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Assistant Professor Dafeng Xu published his paper, “Historical evidence: Immigration restriction laws reduced segregation, but not in a good way,” in the Journal of Comparative Economics
Investigating the Immigration Act of 1924, Xu finds that the law led to a decrease in immigrant segregation. However, the process of de-segregation was mainly through the reduction of new immigrants and the decline in ethnic enclaves. Xu’s findings show that desegregation did not benefit immigrants’ assimilation. Read more.
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Ann Bostrom: To Act on Climate Change, You Gotta Believe
If you’re deeply concerned about climate change, but don’t believe government can effectively address it, how strongly will you support policy action? In joint work with Evans Ph.D. students Adam Hayes and Katherine Crosman, now published in Risk Analysis, Ann Bostrom reports the results of survey data documenting the important role of efficacy beliefs in driving support for climate change mitigation.