Kevin Quigley
Professor
Related Information
Email: Kevin.Quigley@dal.ca
Phone: 902-494-3782
Fax: 902-494-7023
Mailing Address:
Education
- PhD (Queen's University Belfast)
- MSc (London School of Economics)
- BA Honours (Queen's)
Research Interests
I specialize in risk governance and critical infrastructure protection, focusing in particular on public sector responses to rare and high impact events, such as pandemics, natural disasters, industrial failures and cyber and terrorist attacks. I am particularly interested in research methods that employ interdisciplinary and comparative approaches.
Selected Awards and Honours
- 2025聽 Winner of the Donner Prize for聽Seized by Uncertainty: The Markets, Media and Special Interests That Shaped Canada鈥檚 Response to COVID-19.
- 2021鈥2026听 Using Scenario Planning to Address Ambiguous Risks: The future of tourism for persons with disabilities. Insight Grant. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.聽Principal Investigator. $169,760.
2020鈥2023聽 Interdisciplinary Study of Evacuating People with Disabilities from an Urban Centre.聽 Accessibility Standards Canada. Principal Investigator. - 2020鈥2023聽 Working across Disciplines to Understand and Improve Mass Evacuations: Examining Different Types of Risk and Contextual Pressures.聽 Partnership Development Grant.聽 Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Principal Investigator.
- Shortlisted for the 2017 Donner Prize for the Best Public Policy Book by a Canadian,聽Too Critical to Fail: How Canada manages threats to critical infrastructure
Selected Publications
- . Quigley, K., Lowe, K., Moore, S., & Wolfe, B. Montreal: MQUP聽 (2024)
- . Quigley, K. Canadian Public Administration/Administration publique du Canada, 63(3)聽 (2020)
- Rationalizing the use of Twitter by official organizations during risk events: Operationalizing the social amplification of risk framework through causal loop diagrams. Comrie, E. Burns, C., Coulson, A., Quigley, J. & Quigley, K. European Journal of Operational Research, 272(2), 792-801聽 (2019)
- Examining government cross-platform engagement in social media: Instagram vs Twitter and the big lift project. Gruzd, A., Lannigan, J., & Quigley, K. Government Information Quarterly, 35(4), 579-587聽 (2018)
- Quigley, K., Bisset, B., & Mills, B. Montreal: MQUP. Shortlisted for the 2017 Donner Prize for the Best Book by a Canadian in Public Policy聽 (2017)
- Pre-existing condition: Taking media coverage into account when preparing for H1N1. Quigley, K., Macdonald, C., & Quigley, J. Canadian Public Administration, 45(2), 267-288 (2016)
- 'Cyber gurus鈥: A rhetorical analysis of the language of cybersecurity specialists and the implications for security policy and critical infrastructure protection. Quigley, K., Burns, C., & Stallard, K. Government Information Quarterly, 32(2), 108-117聽 (2015)
Selected Professional Publications
- Quigley, K., and Lowe, K. (2023). 鈥淐ommunication and Alert for Mass Evacuations: Improving Accessibility for People with Disabilities.鈥 Prepared for Accessibility Standards Canada.
- Quigley, K., and Lowe, K. (2023). 鈥淩eturn and Recovery from Mass Evacuations: Improving Accessibility for People with Disabilities.鈥 Prepared for Accessibility Standards Canada.
- Quigley, K., and Wolfe, B. (2022). 鈥溾楻iding the Waves鈥: Scenario Planning for the Atlantic Canada Cruise Industry during the Pandemic.鈥澛 Report prepared in partnership with the Atlantic Canada Cruise Association and the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency.
- . (2020) Quigley, K., and Wolfe, B.聽 MacEachen Institute for Public Policy and Governance.
- (2020) Quigley, K., and Lowe, K. Prepared for Employment and Social Development Canada.
- . (2019) Quigley, K., Beesley, P. and Lowe, K. Prepared for the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency and the Province of Nova Scotia.
- . (2018)聽Quigley, K., Moncrieff-Gould, G.,聽Burns, C. MacEachen Institute for Public Policy and Governance.
Current Teaching
- PUAD 6830 - Risk Governance and Black Swans