Presently Dr Murphy is a Professor and Chair, Environment & Resource Studies, Department of Environment and Resource Studies, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada. He is also Director of the University's Centre for Ecosystem Resilience & Adaptation and Research Chair and Chair of the Provincial Centre for Applied Science in Ontario Protected Areas.  At the University, he currently runs a research group focused on restoration and conservation consisting of 2 post-docs, 7 PhD students, 12 Master's students, 17 Bachelor's students, and 3 co-op students. Steve’s work currently focuses on the theoretical basis for and measurement of ecological restoration and resilience in socio-ecological systems. He has over 600 peer reviewed journal articles, books, book chapters, conference papers, and technical reports.  Most recently, he has been a contributor to six chapters in Hobbs, Higgs, and Hall’s 2013 book on Novel Ecosystems and a series of papers in 2012-2013 pertaining to restoration and resilience in parks and protected areas and agro ecosystems. He is an expert in natural sciences-policy interactions and applications and has experience in the academic and practitioner realms of restoration ecology, parks management, and environmental politics, policy & governance

 Ecology, ConservationBiology, Plant Ecology, Biodiversity, Environmental Management,