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Research Focus
Professor Thérèse Murphy's work focuses on human rights law and practice. She is particularly interested in health and human rights, including the right to science and the relationship between new technologies and human rights. She is also interested in human rights method.
Interests
Thérèse welcomes expressions of interest from prospective PhD students who want to conduct original work in one of her areas of expertise: health and human rights; science, technology and human rights; and human rights method. She is also keen to hear from prospective students who want to work on other topics within the human rights field or on health law and ethics.
Thérèse has particular expertise as a mentor to postdoctoral research fellows. As part of the Health & Human Rights Unit, which she established at Queen's Belfast, she has mentored fellows funded by the Leverhulme Trust, the UK's Economic and Social Research Council, and the European Commission's Marie Sklodowska-Curie scheme.
Teaching
Thérèse holds a UK university prize for teaching, the Lord Dearing Award for Teaching & Learning.
She has wide-ranging expertise in the design and delivery of law modules, including more than 20 years' experience leading courses for beginning law students. On the postgraduate side, Thérèse led the team that introduced Gender, Sexuality & Human Rights, the first such option on a Taught Master's programme in the UK.
Achievements
Thérèse is chairperson of the European Master's in Human Rights & Democratisation, the longest-established postgraduate programme sponsored by the European Commission. In addition, she sits on governing body of the Global Campus of Human Rights, a global network of more than 100 universities educating the next generation of human rights professionals.
She is co-founding editor of GC Human Rights Preparedness, co-editor of the Hart book series, Law and Health, and a longstanding member of the editorial board of Oxford University Press' Human Rights Law Review. For a number of years, she acted as an advisor to the British Council.
She is a member of the Moral & Ethical Advisory Group of the Department of Health and Social Care, and has written reports for national and international bodies, including UNAIDS, the Department of Health and the EU's Fundamental Rights Agency.
She has led the law and society pathway that is part of the ESRC NINE Doctoral Training Partnership, and is Queen's subject area lead for law within the AHRC Northern Bridge Doctoral Training Partnership.
Awards for Thérèse's work have come from a range of sources. She has been a Fulbright Scholar at Harvard Law School, a Holding Redlich Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Monash University, a Visiting Research Professor at the Law & Innovation Group at Newcastle University, and both a Jean Monnet Fellow and a Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow at the European University Institute in Italy. She has also won awards from two of the UK's research councils and from the Canadian High Commission.
Thérèse's books include Civil Liberties Law: The Human Rights Act Era, written with Noel Whitty and Steven Livingstone; New Technologies and Human Rights; and European Law and New Health Technologies. Her book Health and Human Rights marked 10 years of the successful Hart/Bloomsbury series on Human Rights Law in Perspective. Her most recent book is The United Nations Special Procedures System, which she edited with Aoife Nolan and Rosa Freedman.
Particulars
Thérèse studied law at University College Dublin and Cambridge University, and became a member of King's Inns, Dublin where she was admitted to the Bar.
She joined Queen's in 2015; prior to this, she was professor of law and co-director of the Economic & Social Rights Unit at the University of Nottingham.
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Research Output
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The Birth and Development of Human Rights for Health
Mason Meier, B., Murphy, T. & Gostin, L. O., 2020, Foundations of Global Health and Human Rights. Gostin, L. O. & Meier, B. M. (eds.). Oxford University PressResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
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Health and Human Rights' Past: Patinating Law's Contribution
Murphy, T., 09 Dec 2019, In : Health and Human Rights Journal. 21, 2, p. 205-214 10 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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What's Law Got to do With Good Science?: A Debate and Dialogue
Turkmendag, I., Fox, M., Thompson, C. & Murphy, T., 01 Jun 2019, In : Social and Legal Studies. 28, 3, p. 392-413Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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AIDS
Murphy, T., 2018, International Law's Objects: Emergence, Encounter and Erasure through Object and Image. Hohmann, J. & Joyce, D. (eds.). Oxford University PressResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
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Hardwired Human Rights
Murphy, T., 2018, Research Handbook on Global Health Law. Burci, G. L. & Toebes, B. (eds.). Edward Elgar Publishing, (Research Handbooks on Globalisation & the Law).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
Open Access1 Citation (Scopus)
Prizes
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Arts and Humanities Research Council Fellowship
Murphy, Thérèse (Recipient), 2006
Prize: Fellowship awarded competitively
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Canadian High Commission Award, University of Toronto Research Visit
Murphy, Thérèse (Recipient), 1995
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Economic and Social Research Council Award for European Law and New Health Technologies
Murphy, Thérèse (Recipient), 2009
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Fernand Braudel Senior Fellowship, European University Institute, Italy
Murphy, Thérèse (Recipient), 2012
Prize: Fellowship awarded competitively
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Finalist, Best Feedback, Queen's Belfast Students Union Education Awards 2016
Murphy, Thérèse (Recipient), May 2016
Prize: Other distinction
Activities
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Invited talk--'Justice, The Global and Me' as part of the inaugural session of a webinar series co-organised by the UK Faculty of Public Health and the European Public Health Association
Thérèse Murphy (Invited speaker)
23 Sep 2020Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited or keynote talk at national or international conference
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Founding editor, GC Human Rights Preparedness, an open access initiative designed to build a human rights-based approach to pandemics and other emergencies (Journal)
Thérèse Murphy (Editorial board member)
30 Jun 2020 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Editorial activity
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Concluding comments--International symposium on the Protection of Human Rights in Infectious Disease Control, organised by Dr Patrycja Dabrowska Klosinska, Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow at QUB Law
Thérèse Murphy (Advisor)
11 Nov 2020 → 12 Nov 2020Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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Invited talk--Launch of Larry Gostin and Ben Meier's textbook, Foundations of Global Health and Human Rights, online event to coincide with Human Rights Day
Thérèse Murphy (Advisor)
10 Dec 2020Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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International assessor for the Australian Research Council's National Competitive Grants Programme (External organisation)
Thérèse Murphy (Reviewer)
2019 → …Activity: Membership types › Membership of peer review panel or committee