Kevin Quigley

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  Winner of the Donner Prize for Seized by Uncertainty: The Markets, Media and Special Interests That Shaped Canada’s Response to COVID-19.
• 2021–2026  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. Principal Investigator. $169,760.
  2020–2023  Interdisciplinary Study of Evacuating People with Disabilities from an Urban Centre.  Accessibility Standards Canada. Principal Investigator.
• 2020–2023  Working across Disciplines to Understand and Improve Mass Evacuations: Examining Different Types of Risk and Contextual Pressures.  Partnership Development Grant.  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, Too Critical to Fail: How Canada manages threats to critical infrastructure

Selected Publications

• Seized by uncertainty: The markets, media, and special interests that shaped Canada's response to COVID-19. Quigley, K., Lowe, K., Moore, S., & Wolfe, B. Montreal: MQUP  (2024)
  
• COVID-19: Governance strategies for managing uncertain risks. Quigley, K. Canadian Public Administration/Administration publique du Canada, 63(3)  (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  (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  (2018)
  
• Too critical to fail: How Canada manages threats to critical infrastructure. Quigley, K., Bisset, B., & Mills, B. Montreal: MQUP. Shortlisted for the 2017 Donner Prize for the Best Book by a Canadian in Public Policy  (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’: 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  (2015)
  

Selected Professional Publications

• Quigley, K., and Lowe, K. (2023). “Communication and Alert for Mass Evacuations: Improving Accessibility for People with Disabilities.” Prepared for Accessibility Standards Canada.
• Quigley, K., and Lowe, K. (2023). “Return and Recovery from Mass Evacuations: Improving Accessibility for People with Disabilities.” Prepared for Accessibility Standards Canada.
• Quigley, K., and Wolfe, B. (2022). “‘Riding the Waves’: Scenario Planning for the Atlantic Canada Cruise Industry during the Pandemic.”  Report prepared in partnership with the Atlantic Canada Cruise Association and the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency.
• Halifax Tourism and COVID-19: Scenario-Planning Exercises for Summer 2021. (2020) Quigley, K., and Wolfe, B.  MacEachen Institute for Public Policy and Governance.
• Environmental Scan: Emergency Management Policies and Programs for People with Disabilities in Canada. (2020) Quigley, K., and Lowe, K. Prepared for Employment and Social Development Canada.
• Cultural and Recreational Infrastructure in Nova Scotia: Future Investments and Governance. (2019) Quigley, K., Beesley, P. and Lowe, K. Prepared for the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency and the Province of Nova Scotia.
• Strengthening the Resilience of the Canadian Water Sector. (2018) Quigley, K., Moncrieff-Gould, G., Burns, C. MacEachen Institute for Public Policy and Governance.

Current Teaching

• PUAD 6830 - Risk Governance and Black Swans