Hello!
Welcome to my website. My name is Joseph Murphy and I’m an academic and writer based in Scotland. I've been researching and writing about environmental issues and sustainable development for over 25 years. My work covers a wide range of issues and topics which I explore using concepts and theories taken from across the social sciences.
My interest in the environment began when I was a teenager and led to related undergraduate and postgraduate degrees at the University of Durham and University of Hull. After completing these I worked at various UK universities including Oxford, Leeds, Edinburgh and The Open University. Most recently I was Professor/Chair in Environmental Studies at the University of Glasgow.
In 2017 I began a career break to look after my daughter during her pre- and early primary school years. One outcome of this is that I now have a long list of well developed stories about a green dragon! I am currently developing new research on (i) gender and environment and (ii) new imperialisms and sustainability, which I will be publishing soon.
If you're interested, take a look around.
My interest in the environment began when I was a teenager and led to related undergraduate and postgraduate degrees at the University of Durham and University of Hull. After completing these I worked at various UK universities including Oxford, Leeds, Edinburgh and The Open University. Most recently I was Professor/Chair in Environmental Studies at the University of Glasgow.
In 2017 I began a career break to look after my daughter during her pre- and early primary school years. One outcome of this is that I now have a long list of well developed stories about a green dragon! I am currently developing new research on (i) gender and environment and (ii) new imperialisms and sustainability, which I will be publishing soon.
If you're interested, take a look around.
Topics
Learning lessons from natural resource conflicts
Improving dialogue between science and society
Using policy to shape social and technical innovation
Governing when power and authority are dispersed
Changing consumption patterns in affluent societies
Research methodologies and political action
Towards a theory of environment and sustainability
Improving dialogue between science and society
Using policy to shape social and technical innovation
Governing when power and authority are dispersed
Changing consumption patterns in affluent societies
Research methodologies and political action
Towards a theory of environment and sustainability
Books
Regulatory Realities: The Implementation and Impact of Industrial Environmental Regulation
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Ecological Modernisation, a special issue of Geoforum, 31, 3, pp. 1-66
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Exploring Sustainable Consumption: Environmental Policy and the Social Sciences
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Governing the Transatlantic Conflict over Agricultural Biotechnology
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Governing Technology for Sustainability
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At The Edge: Walking the Atlantic Coast of Ireland and Scotland
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For more information about my publications follow the 'books' and 'all publications' links at the top of the page.
For more on citations and how other academics use my work see:
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=3xnzwwoAAAAJ&hl=en
