Michael Murphy
Buchanan Post-Doctoral Fellow
He/Him
PhD (OttawaU); MA (Queen's)
Political Studies
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Robert Sutherland Hall, 409
Brief Biography
Michael Murphy is a Buchanan Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Political Studies and a Digital Policy Hub Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation (Waterloo). He completed his PhD at the University of Ottawa and received an MA in the Collaborative Political and Legal Thought Program at ֱ.
Research Interests
Michael's research for the Buchanan fellowship focuses on the health of local democracy, with particular attention to school boards and municipal government. As a researcher affiliated with the Queen’s Centre for International and Defence Policy, he is the PI of a series of grant-funded research project on the security implications of emerging technologies. He is also active in the scholarship of teaching and learning, and recently led the Active Teaching, Assessment and Evaluation in Political Science study as a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow. He is the author of two books and over forty peer-reviewed articles. His work can be found .
Teaching
POLS 463 International Relations Theory (Winter 2024)
ASCX400: Edward Burtynsky, Standing Whale Artist Group (co-instructor)
Honours Seminar in International Relations, University of Ottawa (x3)
Modern Political Thought, Part II, University of Ottawa
Selected Publications
Murphy, Michael PA, and Claire Parsons. "Tracking Quantum S&T from strategy to implementation plan: what we learned about the Canadian Armed Forces’ quantum posture." Canadian Foreign Policy Journal (2024) OnlineFirst: 1-16.
Murphy, Michael PA, Andrea Phillipson, Karalyn E. McRae, and Andrew B. Leger. "The experience of teaching in an active learning classroom: a positive/negative perception study." Learning Environments Research (2024) OnlineFirst: 1-15.
Murphy, Michael PA. "Rediscovering the ‘Meaning of Science’? Hans Morgenthau and the ethics debate in quantum IR." International Relations (2024) OnlineFirst: 1-22.
Murphy, Michael PA. "Accidental paradiplomats? The curious case of Ontario school board budgets and Canadian soft power projection." International Journal 79, no. 1 (2024): 96-110.
Murphy, Michael PA. “Digital Ethics, Gender-Based Analysis and Canada’s Quantum Strategy.” Digital Policy Hub Working Paper Series. Waterloo: Centre for International Governance Innovation.
Murphy, Michael PA. "Canada’s approach to quantum in security and economics: feminist foreign policy or tokenizing #WomenInSTEM?." Canadian Foreign Policy Journal 30, no. 2 (2024): 192-205.
Heffernan, Andrew, and Michael PA Murphy. "A quantum model of climate change? Insights from community-based natural resource management in Namibia." Asian Journal of Comparative Politics 9, no. 3 (2024): 419-432.
Murphy, Michael PA, Andrea Phillipson, and Andrew Leger. "Split-Site Course Design: A Pilot Study on Integrating Traditional and Active Learning Classrooms." College Teaching (2023): 1-11.