Michael Murphy
Director, CIDP
He/Him
PhD (OttawaU); MA (Queen's)
Political Studies
Term Adjunct
Robert Sutherland Hall, 403
Brief Biography
Michael P. A. Murphy is the director of the Centre for International and Defence Policy at Queen’s University and president of the Canadian region of the International Studies Association. He is an Editor at Security Dialogue and a Consulting Editor at College Teaching. He is a former Digital Policy Hub fellow at Centre for International Governance Innovation. At Queen’s, Michael has held appointments as the Buchanan Postdoctoral Fellow in Canadian Democracy, a Mathews Fellow in Public Policy, and a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow. Michael is an international award-winning educator with a range of teaching experience in international relations, Canadian politics, political theory and public administration. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Ottawa, where his dissertation won the 2022 Joseph De Koninck Thesis Prize for making an outstanding contribution to interdisciplinary knowledge.
Research Interests
Michael's research interests intersect international relations and security, science and technology policy, and Canadian politics. He is the author of Quantum Social Theory for Critical International Relations Theorists (Palgrave, 2021) and Weak Utopianism in Education (Routledge, 2024), more than 40 peer-reviewed articles and numerous book reviews and chapters, receiving more than 2,000 citations. He also has an active research profile in the scholarship of teaching and learning, focusing on issues of active learning, classroom design, and assessment and evaluation. 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.