This year the Institute for Municipal and Regional Policy’s (IMRP) CT Children with Incarcerated Parents Initiative (CTCIP) was featured in the news twice this year. The Initiative was featured by NBC Connecticut for a piece entitled “Playground at York Correctional Will be Newest Tool to Connect Incarcerated Moms With Their Kids” about York Correctional Institute. This […]
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Recapping Research with Professor Jinhai Yu
UConn School of Public Policy (SPP) Professor Jinhai Yu joined SPP in August 2022. This year he published three articles in public administration journals. Jinhai coauthored a paper entitled “Job Satisfaction and Citizen Satisfaction with Street-level Bureaucrats: Is There a Satisfaction Mirror?” with Professor Nicolai Petrovsky (City University of Hong Kong) and Professor Ge Xin […]
Recapping Research with Professor Ruodan Zhang
UConn School of Public Policy (SPP) Professor Ruodan Zhang became a faculty affiliate for the Sustainable Global Cities Initiative (SGCI) in 2022. In this capacity, Ruodan plays an active role in building and expanding city research at UConn. She is currently working on forthcoming research with Professor Haohan Chen (The University of Hong Kong) and […]
Recapping Research with Professor Bill Simonsen
Recently we caught up with UConn School of Public Policy (SPP) Professor Bill Simonsen regarding his research. He had the following updates for our newsletter! Over the past few years, one focus of my research has been with colleagues Mark Robbins and Eric Brunner in the broad area of citizen’ willingness to pay for public […]
Recapping Research with the CT Sentencing Commission
The Connecticut Sentencing Commission reviews, researches and makes recommendations regarding Connecticut’s criminal justice system. It is a supported by the Institute of Municipal and Regional Policy (IMRP) at UConn’s School of Public Policy (SPP). IMRP’s professional staff provides the administrative resources necessary to support the Commission’s mission. The Commission’s Chairperson is Justice David Borden and […]
Recapping Research with Professor Yusun Kim
UConn School of Public Policy (SPP) Professor Yusun Kim has a forthcoming book chapter entitled ”The Role of Cities and Public Health Expenditures in the COVID-19 Era.” Her contribution will be in Craig Johnson, Tima Moldogaziev and Justin Ross’s “Research Handbook on City and Municipal Finance”. She also has a forthcoming publication in the National […]
Recapping Research with Professor Kerri Raissian
UConn School of Public Policy (SPP) Professor Kerri Raissian was appointed earlier this year to the Governor’s Commission on Community Gun Violence Intervention and Prevention. A fews ago she accepted an additional responsibility of chairing the subcommittee on Data Evaluation and Analysis of Grant funded programs. The charge of the committee is not just about […]
IMRP Conducts a Cannabis Study for the CT Social Equity Council
The Institute for Municipal and Regional Policy (IMRP) is currently conducting a Cannabis Study for the CT Social Equity Council (SEC). The Council was developed to ensure the equitable growing of cannabis and the distribution of funds from the adult-use cannabis program to communities impacted the most by the “war on drugs.” UConn School of Public Policy professors Mohamad […]
Recapping Research with Professor Jennifer Dineen
UConn School of Public Policy (SPP) Professor Jennifer Dineen will be presenting at the Center for Ethics in Society at Saint Anselm College later this month. She will be discussing joint work with Professor Kerri Raissian at the Ethics, Law, and Social Science of Self-Defense and Firearms workshop. The two co-direct the Gun Violence Prevention […]
Research Recap with Professor Renzo de la Riva Agüero
School of Public Policy (SPP) Professor Renzo de la Riva Agüero joined our faculty this fall with a focus on public management, comparative politics and public policy. This summer Renzo completed his Ph.D. in Public Policy at Indiana University – Bloomington. Renzo’s dissertation entitled “Too Complex to Deliver? Administrative Capacity, Governance, and Waste Management in […]