Research Brown Bag Seminar this Friday Jan. 29, 12pm - 1pm Training Room 1; first in our Spring Series
Dear public administration students,
Our first talk, with Dr. Carolyn J. Heinrich, a distinguished new faculty member at Vanderbilt, is this Friday 1/29/2016 at noon in AWC Training Room 1 (off the atrium on the 3rd floor).
Please join us and take this opportunity to meet with Dr. Heinrich, a leader in the fields of public policy, evaluation, and public administration, and to welcome her warmly to the academic community of TSU and Nashville. Her talk will be on a program evaluation of the South African Child Support Grant program; her work on this evaluation received the 2013 Best of UNICEF Research Award.
For this talk, if you plan to attend I would like you to RSVP to me so that I have an idea of how many people are coming. I will provide light snacks and drinks, you are welcome to bring a bag lunch with you! If you realize at the last minute you can make it, though, by all means please join us even if you have not RSVP'd.
More information on Dr. Heinrich and her work is provided below. The full list of talks planned for this semester is included at the bottom of this email and available
online. This series is in addition to the regular practitioner talks organized by
TN-ASPA, and as always you are encouraged to attend those as well (typically on Thursdays). The goal of the College of Public Service Research Brown Bag series is to ensure that our public administration and policy students have the opportunity to learn about relevant research in PA and related fields, both within and beyond TSU. If you have questions contact me at mstreams@tnstate.edu.
Dr. Heinrich is Professor of Public Policy and Education in the Department of Leadership, Policy & Organizations in the Peabody College. Her policy research and evaluation interests are broad and her work should be of great interest across the College. She was elected to the National Academy of Public Administration in 2011; she serves as a consultant to UNICEF, the World Bank, United Nations Development Program, and the US Department of Labor. She is former Director of the Center for Health and Social Policy at UT-Austin and the La Follette School of Public Affairs at UW-Madison. Dr. Heinrich is widely published in the top journals of several fields including JPART, JPAM, PAR, Administration & Society, RE Stat, AER, and Health Services Research. She has published books with presses including SAGE and Georgetown University Press. Her full CV is
available.
The Bite of Administrative Burden: A Theoretical and Empirical Investigation (in press with JPART)"The study of administrative burden—experienced in individual encounters with government—is being renewed with new theoretical developments and policy applications. Building on recent developments, this paper aims to broaden the conceptual framing of administrative burden and extend its empirical investigation beyond concerns about access to and efficiency of public services to questions of individual and societal impacts. It also expands beyond the typical U.S. or developed country context to examine this phenomenon in the setting of a large social protection program in South Africa, where the “bite” of administrative burden may potentially be bigger. The empirical analysis uses data from the South African Child Support Grant (CSG) evaluation to investigate how CSG program rules and requirements affected administrative burdens and erected barriers to grant receipt. The findings show that 60 percent of CSG recipients experienced an interruption or disconnection in grant receipt that appears to be associated with administrative burden, with 80 percent of those stoppages in error. The resulting loss of monthly benefits has significant negative implications for the outcomes of adolescents targeted by the program."
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Meg Streams, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Dept. of Public Administration
College of Public Service and Urban Affairs, Tennessee State University
330 10th St N Ste F-400 Mail Stop 140
Nashville TN 37203-3401
www.tnstate.edu/cpsua
JANUARY | Friday 1/29/2016 12-1pm | AWC Room Training Room 1
Carolyn J. Heinrich, Ph.D., Professor of Public Policy, Education and Economics, Peabody College, Vanderbilt University
"The bite of administrative burden: a theoretical and empirical investigation"
FEBRUARY | Friday 2/12/2016 12-1pm | AWC Room Training Room 1
Amie Thurber, MSW, doctoral student, Community Research & Action, Peabody College, Vanderbilt University
"A People's Guide to Nashville: why we need one, and how you (and your students) can get involved"
MARCH | Friday 3/25/2016 12-1pm | AWC Room Training Room 1
Wanda Davidson, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Social Work (new faculty member)
"A study of the relationship between culture and education among African American males who were likely to age out of foster care in the state of Alabama"
APRIL | Friday 4/22/2016 12-1pm | AWC Room Training Room 1
Ali Winters, DSW, Assistant Professor of Social Work (new faculty member)
"Evidence-based social work practice with women in solitary confinement"
