Susan Phillips joined the School in 1988 and has been Director since 2005.  Her research focuses on the evolving relationship between government and civil society – in policy development, service delivery and promotion of citizenship.  In particular, her work concentrates on comparative analysis of the policy, regulatory and financing frameworks that enable (or constrain) the work of civil society organizations and philanthropy, and the implications for public management. With colleagues at the Centre for Charitable Giving and Philanthropy (CGAP), Cass Business School, City University London, she is currently co-editing the Routledge Companion to Philanthropy,the first international handbook on philanthropy (to be published in 2013).  With CGAP colleagues, she is also in the early stages of a multi-year study of place-based philanthropy, examining the community leadership roles played by community foundations.

Susan related areas of research focus on women in leadership in the public and nonprofit sectors,  policy and program evaluation, and regulation as a policy instrument. Beginning her academic career in geography and urban planning, she also maintains an interest in urban governance.

Dr. Phillips is a Research Fellow of the Carleton Centre for Community Innovation (3CI), and is centrally involved with the Regulatory Governance Initiative (RGI) and the Centre for Women in Politics and Public Leadership. She is a board member of the International Research Society for Public Management, a member of the Policy Advisory Boards of Imagine Canada  and Volunteer Canada, and  Past Fellow of the Wellesley Institute and the Canada School of Public Service.

Recent Graduate Teaching

• PADM 5116: Policy Analysis and Contemporary Governance
• PADM 5117:  Public Management
• PADM 5423:  Third Sector Governance and Management

Professional / Executive Courses

• Policy and Program Evaluation
• Nonprofit Management and Leadership
• Good Governance

Editorial Boards

• Public Management Review
• Policy and Society
• The Philanthropist
• Canadian Journal of Nonprofit and Social Economy Research

Publications

Recent and Forthcoming 

• Jenny Harrow and Susan D. Phillips, “Corporate Governance and Nonprofits: Facing up to hybridisation and homogenization,” in Igor Filatotchev, ed., Oxford Handbook of Corporate Governance.  Oxford:  Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2012.
• Susan D. Phillips, “The New Citizenship and Governance:  Alternative Intersections,” in David Levi-Faur, ed., The Oxford Handbook of Governance.  Oxford:  Oxford University Press, in press.
• Susan D. Phillips, “Restructuring Civil Society in Canada, Muting the Politics of Redistribution,” in Keith Banting and John Myles, eds. The Fading of Redistributive Politics: Policy Change and Policy Drift in Canada. Vancouver:  UBC Press, in press.
• Susan D. Phillips, “Dual Restructuring: Civil Society and the Welfare State in Canada, 1985 to 2005,”  Special Issue, British Journal of Canadian Studies, in press.
• “Moving Away from Hierarchy: Do Horizontality, Partnerships and Distributed Governance Really Signify the End of Accountability?” in H. Bakvis and M. Jarvis, eds., ‘New Public Management’ to ‘New Political Governance:’ Essays in Honour of Peter C. Aucoin. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, in press.
• “Canadian Leapfrog: From Regulating Charitable Fundraising to Co-Regulating Good Governance,” Voluntas , Online first.
• Susan D. Phillips and Steven Rathgeb Smith, eds. Governance and Regulation in the Third Sector: International Perspectives.  London and New York:  Routledge.
• Susan D. Phillips and Steven Rathgeb Smith, “Between Governance and Regulation: Evolving Government-Third Sector Relationships,” in Susan D. Phillips and Steven Rathgeb Smith, eds.,Governance and Regulation in the Third Sector:  International Perspectives. London and New York:  Routledge.
• Susan D, Phillips, “Incrementalism at its Best, and Worst: Regulatory Reform and Relational Governance in Canada,” in Susan. D. Phillips and Steven Rathgeb Smith, eds., Governance and Regulation in the Third Sector:  International Perspectives. London and New York:  Routledge.
• Susan D. Phillips and Tessa Hebb, eds.  Financing Civil Society, Themed Issue of Policy & Society, 29 (3), 2010: 181-87.
• Susan D. Phillips, Rachel Laforest and Andrew Graham, “From Shopping to Social Innovation: Getting Public Financing Right in Canada,” Policy & Society, 29 (3), 189-99.
• Susan D. Phillips, “Canada: Civil Society Under Neglect,” Philanthropist / le Philanthrope, 23, 1, 2010.

2005-2009, Selected Publications

• Susan D. Phillips, “Canada’s ‘New Government’ and the Voluntary Sector:  Whither a Policy Agenda,” in Rachel Laforest, ed. The New Federal Policy Agenda and the Voluntary Sector. Montreal and Kingston:  McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2009.
• Susan D. Phillips and Tatyana Teplova, “From Control to Learning:  Performance Assessment in the Voluntary Sector,” in Vic Murray, ed., The Management of Non-Profit and Voluntary Organizations in Canada 2^nd ed.  Toronto:  LexisNexis Canada.  2009. (1^st ed. 2006)
• Susan D. Phillips, “‘You Say you want an Evolution?’: From Citizen to Community Engagement in Canadian Cities,” in J. Martin  and E. Brunet-Jailly, eds. Local Government in a Global World: Australia and Canada in Comparative Perspective. Toronto:  IPAC, 2009.
• Brian R. Little, Susan D. Phillips and Katarina Salmela-Aro, eds. Personal Project Pursuit:  Goals, Action and Human Flourishing. Mahwah NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
• Adam M. Grant, Brian R. Little and Susan D. Philips, “Personal Projects and Organizational Lives,”  in Brian R. Little and K. Salmela-Aro and Susan D. Phillips, eds., Personal Project Pursuit:  Goals, Action and Human Flourishing. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2007: 221-46.
• Katherine A. H. Graham and Susan D. Phillips, “Another Fine Balance:  Managing Diversity in Canadian Cities,”  in Keith Banting, Thomas J. Courchene and F. Leslie Seidle, eds., Belonging?  Diversity, Recognition and Shared Citizenship in Canada. Institute for Research on Public Policy, Montreal, 2007: 155-194.
• Susan D. Philips, “Policy Analysis and the Voluntary Sector:  Evolving Policy Styles,” in Laurent Dobuzinskis, Michael Howlett, David Laycock, eds. Policy Analysis in Canada: The State of the Art. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007: 497-521.
• Susan D. Phillips “Balancing Acts: Multi-Level Regulation of Canada’s Voluntary Sector,”  in G. Bruce Doern, ed. Rules, Rules, Rules: Multi-Level Governance in Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006: 124-56.
• Rachel Laforest and Susan D. Phillips,“  Citizen Engagement: Rewiring the Policy Process,” in Michael Orsini and Miriam Smith, eds., Critical Policy Studies.  Vancouver: UBC Press, 2006. (with R. Laforest)
• Susan D. Phillips, “The Intersection of Governance and Citizenship:  Not Quite the Third Way,”Policy Matters, 7, 4. Montreal:  Institute for Research on Public Policy, August, 2006.

Recent Papers Presented, Selected

• Susan D. Phillips, Tobias Jung and Jenny Harrow,  “Community Foundations as Community Leaders? Comparing developments in Canada and the United Kingdom.” Paper presented to the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA), Toronto, November 2011.
• Jenny Harrow, Tobias Jung and Susan D. Phillips, “Community foundations’ responses to the changing socio-political landscape across the United Kingdom: Letting go of the past and going for the future?” Paper presented to the European Research Network on Philanthropy (ERNOP) conference, Vienna, June 2011.
• Susan D. Phillips, “Policy for Partnership: Assessing the Meta-Governance for Government-Civil Society Relationships,”  Presentation to the International Research Society for Public Management (IRSPM), Dublin, April 2011.
• Susan D. Phillips, “State and Self-Regulation of Fundraising in Canada: A Hybrid Approach or Two Solitudes?” Paper presented to the International Society for Third Sector Research (ISTR), Istanbul, July 2010.
• Susan D. Phillips and Leslie A. Pal, “Managing Multiple Missions: The Development of Accreditation Public Policy and Administration Programs in Canada,” Paper presented to Panel Track, Public Management Education and Training, International Research Society for Public Management (IRSPM), Berne, Switzerland, April 2010.
• Cosmo Howard and Susan D. Phillips, “Moving Away from Hierarchy: Do Horizontality, Partnerships and Distributed Governance Really Signify the End of Accountability?” Paper presented to the Conference in Honour of Peter Aucoin, Dalhousie University, November 2009.
• Susan D. Phillips, “Regulating Self-Regulation in the Charitable Sector: Innovation or Contradiction in New Public Governance?” Paper presented to the International Research Society for Public Management (IRSPM), Copenhagen, April 2009.
• Susan D. Phillips,“Governing, Financing and Engaging Civil Society: Looking to the Next Generation,” Paper presented to the Mexico-Canada Civil Society Conference, Puebla, Mexico, February, 2009.
• Susan D. Phillips, Invited Convocation Address, Carleton University, November 2007.
• Susan D. Phillips, “Implications of the Federal Accountability Act,” Presentation to the Conference, the Federal Accountability Act, sponsored by the Centre for the Study of Parliament, Ottawa, April, 2007.
• Susan D. Phillips. “Comparative Overview of the Development of Joint Strategies/Agreements in Canada, Croatia, England, Estonia, Scotland,” (Opening Keynote) Presentation to the Civil Society Excellence Conference, Tallinn, Estonia, March 2005.

Other Publications / Reports

• A Manager’s Guide to Gender Equality and Human Rights Responsive Evaluation. Online Manual prepared for UNIFEM (United Nations Development Fund for Women), 2010. (Team Leader for Carleton University).  Available at: http://www.mymande.org/?q=human_rights_front
• VP-Q (The Voluntary Project Q-Deck).  Assessment device for volunteering preferences and projects.  Developed for the Knowledge Development Centre as part of the Canada Volunteerism Initiative, 2003.
• Brian R. Little and Susan D. Phillips, “Social Participation, Personal Projects and Well-Being:  A Social Ecological Framework on the Life-Course.”  Paper prepared for Human Resources and Social Development Canada and the Policy Research Initiative, 2006.
• Susan D. Phillips and Christopher Stoney, From Response to Resiliency:  Voluntary Organizations in Health Emergency Management in Canada. Working Paper Series, Public Health Agency of Canada,  2006.
• Voluntary Sector Initiative Process Evaluation. Evaluation prepared for the Government of Canada and the Voluntary Sector. October 2004. (Team leader on behalf of the Centre for Voluntary Sector Research and Development, Carleton University).
• Michael Hall, Susan D. Phillips, Claudia Meillat and Donna Pickering. Assessing Performance:  Evaluation Practices and Perspectives in Canada’s Voluntary Sector, 2003. Report of the first national Canadian survey of evaluation practices of voluntary organizations and funders, conducted as part of the Voluntary Sector Evaluation Research Projects (VSERP), an SSHRC funded CURA project (co-directed by Michael Hall and Susan Phillips), 2000-2005.

Community Engagement

• Member, Policy Advisory Committee, Imagine Canada
• Member, Policy Advisory Committee, Volunteer/Bénévoles Canada
• Research Fellow (2009-2011),  Wellesley Institute
• Member, Advisory Committee, Canada School of Public Service New Synthesis Project

Recent Media Coverage

• SPPA Professor Susan Phillips speaks with The Globe and Mail about “Planning for a public-sector career? Numbers look good”
• CharityVillage article on “A gradual impact: Inspiring tomorrow’s leaders through higher education”
• CBC covers Carleton’s new graduate program in philanthropy