Roland Tormey
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1015 Lausanne
+41 21 693 23 63
Office:
RLC D1 740
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Biography
I am a sociologist and educational scientist, researching and teaching on engineering education. My research focuses on diversity and equality issues in learning, the role of emotion in science and engineering learning, and engineering ethics education. My recent work includes co-authoring Facilitating Experiential Learning in Higher Education: Teaching and Supervising in Labs, Fieldwork, Studios, and Projects (2021), and co-editing The Routledge International Handbook of Engineering Ethics Education (2025).I also manage the Teaching Support Centre at EPFL.
My profile (text) is accessible here.
An extended interview (audio) about my work on engineering ethics education is available here.
An extended interview (audio) about emotion in education, teacher education and engineering education is here.
A shorter interview (audio) on emotion in learning is here.
Education
Doctorate
Sociology
Trinity College Dublin
1992-1999
Post Graduate Certificate
Environmental and Development Education
London South Bank University
1999-2000
Bachelor of Social Science
Sociology, Social Administration
University College Dublin
1989-1992
Bachelor of Science
Mathematics, Statistics
The Open University
2015-2024
Publications
Infoscience publications
MAIN PUBLICATIONS
Emotions in engineering education: A configurative meta-synthesis systematic review
Journal Of Engineering Education. 2024-05-15. DOI : 10.1002/jee.20600.The impact of different methods of increasing the intensity of compassion in engineering ethics cases
2024-04-13. DOI : 10.1080/03043797.2024.2341758.“But of course i’m going to look happy” or “He needed to know I was angry”? Comparing use of emotional labour in teamwork in engineering and hospitality students
2024-03-28. EAPRIL 2023 Conference, Belfast, Northern Ireland (UK), November 22 - 24, 2023. p. 131-143.Emotional labor experienced in team-projects: A comparison of engineering and hospitality students
2023-09-11. 2023 SEFI Annual Conference, Dublin, Ireland, September 11-14, 2023, 2023-09-11.A multimodal measurement of the impact of deepfakes on the ethical reasoning and affective reactions of students
2023-09-11. 2023 SEFI Annual Conference, Dublin, Ireland, September 11-14, 2023.Compassion and Engineering Students’ Moral Reasoning: The Emotional Experience of Engineering Ethics Cases
Journal of Engineering Education. 2023-06-20. DOI : 10.1002/jee.20538.Emotions in Engineering Education
International Handbook of Engineering Education Research; New York: Routledge, 2023-05-23.Educating Engineering Students to Address Bias and Discrimination Within Their Project Teams
Science and engineering ethics. 2023-02-07. DOI : 10.1007/s11948-022-00426-w.The development, validation and use of an interprofessional project management questionnaire in engineering education
European Journal Of Engineering Education. 2023-02-01. DOI : 10.1080/03043797.2023.2171854.Are engineering teachers ready to leverage the power of play to teach transversal skills?
2023. European Society for Engineering Education (SEFI) Annual Conference, Dublin, Ireland, September 11-14, 2023.Immersive professional activities as learning: Irish teachers learning from overseas volunteering in India
Professional Development In Education. 2023. DOI : 10.1080/19415257.2020.1770840.A Canvas for the Ethical Design of Learning Experiences with Digital Tools
2022-11-30. 50th Annual Conference of The European Society for Engineering Education (SEFI 2022), Barcelona, Spain, September 19-22, 2022. p. 2282-2287. DOI : 10.5821/conference-9788412322262.1237.A Game-Based Approach to Develop Engineering Students’ Awareness About Artificial Intelligence Ethical Challenges
2022-11-30. 50th Annual Conference of The European Society for Engineering Education (SEFI 2022), Barcelona, Spain, September 19-22, 2022. p. 2276-2281. DOI : 10.5821/conference-9788412322262.1283.Gender, prior knowledge, and the impact of a flipped linear algebra course for engineers over multiple years
Journal of Engineering Education. 2022-05-18. DOI : 10.1002/jee.20467.Teaching under lockdown: the change in the social practice of teaching
Higher Education. 2022-05-07. DOI : 10.1007/s10734-022-00863-3.Emotional empathy and engineering students’moral reasoning
2022. 50th Annual Conference of The European Society for Engineering Education- SEFI 2022, Barcelona, Spain, September 19-22, 2022. p. 458-467. DOI : 10.5821/conference-9788412322262.1124.Theorizing the Emotional Quality of Teaching and Learning Relationships in STEM Faculty Development
Handbook of STEM Faculty Development; USA: Information Age Publishing, 2022.Which professional skills do students learn in engineering team-based projects?
European Journal of Engineering Education. 2022. DOI : 10.1080/03043797.2021.1920890.Emotions in Engineering Education: Preliminary Results from a Scoping Review
2021-12-05. Research in Engineering Education Symposium & Australasian Association for Engineering Education Conference 2021, Perth, Australia, December 5-8, 2021.Facilitating Experiential Learning in Higher Education Teaching and Supervising in Labs, Fieldwork, Studios, and Projects
Routledge.Rethinking student-teacher relationships in higher education: a multidimensional approach
Higher Education. 2021-04-12. DOI : 10.1007/s10734-021-00711-w.Teaching Transversal Skills in the Engineering Curriculum: the Need to Raise the Temperature
2020-11-20. SEFI 48th Annual Conference: Engaging Engineering Education, Enschede, the Netherlands (online), September 20-24, 2020. p. 906-917.Emotions in engineering education: Towards a research agenda
2020-01-01. IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), Uppsala, SWEDEN, Oct 21-24, 2020. DOI : 10.1109/FIE44824.2020.9273951.Developing interdisciplinary and intercultural skills in engineers through short-term field experiences
Informacios Tarsadalom. 2020-01-01. DOI : 10.22503/inftars.XX.2020.2.1.Designing for impact: a conceptual framework for learning analytics as self-assessment tools
Assessment & Evaluation In Higher Education. 2020. DOI : 10.1080/02602938.2019.1680952.Impact on the practice of students and teachers of a learning analytics dashboard
Sciences Po International Teaching and Learning Workshop 2019: “Integrating Pedagogical Diversity: Blended Learning and Educational Impact”, Paris, France, 26 & 27 June 2019.Developing teacher agency through dialogue
Teaching And Teacher Education. 2019-06-01. DOI : 10.1016/j.tate.2019.03.014.Flipped classroom in Linear Algebra
SFDN Conference 2019, Zurich, Switzerland, 22 February 2019.Short-term field study programmes for developing interdisciplinary skills in engineering education
2019. SEFI 47th Annual Conference. European Society of Engineering Education. "Varietas delectat...Complexity is the new normality"", Budapest, Hungary, September 16-19, 2019.Impact of a learning analytics dashboard on the practice of students and teachers
2019. SEFI 47th Annual Conference. European Society of Engineering Education. "Varietas delectat...Complexity is the new normality", Budapest, Hungary, September 16-19, 2019.The Teaching Toolkit: design of a one-day pedagogical workshop for engineering graduate teaching assistants
European Journal of Engineering Education. 2019-02-26. DOI : 10.1080/03043797.2019.1584606.The Impact of Gender on Engineering Students' Group Work Experiences
International Journal Of Engineering Education. 2019-01-01.How do science and engineering students approach revisions? A self-regulated learning tool for supporting the transition from secondary to higher education
2018-09-17. 46th Annual Conference of the European Society for Engineering Education, Danish Technical University (DTU), Copenhagen, Danemark, September 17-21, 2018.Does gender-sensitive teacher training have a place in Engineering Education? Assessing pedagogical training as a step towards gender-inclusive curricula
2018-09-17. 46th SEFI Conference, Technical University, Copenhagen, Danemark, 17-21 September 2018. p. 976-983.Chapter 13: Training and Development Needs for a 21st Century Academic
Global Perspectives on Teaching Excellence: A new era for higher education; Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2018-02-12. p. 204.How do students perceive academic success in secondary schools and in higher education?
2018-02-02. SFDN Conference 2018, Lucerne, Switzerland, 2 February 2018.Computational Thinking and Thinking Computationally
Dia-logos, Ramon Llull's Method of Thought and Artistic Practice; Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2018.Does gender-sensitive teacher training have a place in Engineering Education?
2018. 46th SEFI Annual Conference 2018: Creativity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship for Engineering Education Excellence, Copenhagen, Denmark, September 17-21, 2018.Fostering 21st Century Skills through Interdisciplinary Learning Experiences
2018. 46th SEFI Annual Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark.Creating a Smart Learning Space: Learning with and learning from student-generated data about learning
2017-09-18. 45th SEFI Annual Conference, Azorez, Portugal, 18-21 September 2017.Apprendre à étudier - Guide à l'usage des étudiants en sciences et en ingénierie
PPUR.Curriculum co-design using participatory rapid prototyping tools
2017. 45th SEFI Conference, Azores, Portugal, September 18-21, 2017.Ready to face the world?Lessons learnt from applying a Multi-Professional Shared Learning Test tofirst year Engineering and Science students at the Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland.
International Consortium for Educational Development (ICED) Conference 2016 Ethics, Care and Quality in Educational Development, Cape Town, South Africa, November 22-25, 2016.Évaluation de l’impact des cours ‘Enjeux Mondiaux’ dans le raisonnement éthique des étudiants de première année à l’École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
2016. 29ème Congrès de l'Association International de Pédagogie Universitaire (AIPU), Université de Lausanne, Switzerland, June 6-9, 2016.Increasing the Perspectives of Engineering Undergraduates on Societal Issues through an Interdisciplinary Program
International Journal of Engineering Education. 2016.Supporting Teacher Decision-Making Through Appropriate Feedback
Grand Challenge Problems in Technology-Enhanced Learning II: MOOCs and Beyond: Perspectives for Research, Practice, and Policy Making Developed at the Alpine Rendez-Vous in Villard-de-Lans; Heidelberg: Springer, 2016. p. 21-24.Undergraduate group projects: Challenges and learning experiences
2015. DOI : 10.5339/qproc.2015.elc2014.19.The Formal and Hidden Curricula of Ethics in Engineering Education
2015. 43rd Annual SEFI Conference, Orleans, France, June 29 - July 2, 2015.Conscientious Behaviour, Flexibility and Learning in Massive Open On-Line Courses
2015. World Conference on Educational Sciences, Malta, Febuary 2014. p. 519-525. DOI : 10.1016/j.sbspro.2015.04.686.Eye-tracking perspectives of students’ learning trough MOOCs
International Journal of Technology in Higher Education. 2014-10-31.The centre cannot hold: untangling two different trajectories of the 'approaches to learning'framework
Teaching in Higher Education. 2014. DOI : 10.1080/13562517.2013.827648.Critical Thinking and Development Education: How do we develop meta-cognitive capacities?
Development Education in Policy and Practice; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. p. 65-80.Approaches to learning, metacognition and personality; an exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis
Procedia Social and Behavioural Sciences. 2014. DOI : 10.1016/j.sbspro.2014.01.611.Sleepers’ lag - study on motion and attention
2014. 4th Internation Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA, March 24-28, 2014. p. 36–43. DOI : 10.1145/2567574.2567581.Student motion and it's potential as a classroom performance metric
3rd International Workshop on Teaching Analytics (IWTA), Paphos, Cyprus, September 17-21, 2013.Does emotional intelligence predict student teachers' performance?
Teaching and Teacher Education. 2013. DOI : 10.1016/j.tate.2013.04.008.A question of knowledge
Education that Matters: Teachers, Critical Pedagogy and Development Education and Local and Global Level; Oxford: Peter Lang, 2013.Teacher educators’ perspectives on the implementation of beginning teacher standards for physical education in Ireland: developing and regulating the profession?
European Journal of Teacher Education. 2013. DOI : 10.1080/02619768.2012.696191.Developing Emotionally Competent Teachers; Emotional Intelligence and Pre-Service Teacher Education
Oxford: Peter Lang.Irish post-primary students' attitudes towards ethnic minorities
Irish Educational Studies. 2012. DOI : 10.1080/03323315.2012.676234.How emotionally intelligent are pre-service teachers?
Teaching and Teacher Education. 2012. DOI : 10.1016/j.tate.2012.02.007.The gendering of global citizenship: findings from a large-scale quantitative study on global citizenship education experiences
Gender and Education. 2012. DOI : 10.1080/09540253.2011.646960.Assessing Emotional Intelligence and Its Impact in Caring Professions: The Value of a Mixed-Methods Approach in Emotional Intelligence Work with Teachers
Emotional Intelligence - New Perspectives and Applications; Rijeka, Croatia: InTech, 2012. p. 215-238.Beginning teacher standards for physical education: Promoting a democratic ideal?
Teaching and Teacher Education. 2012. DOI : 10.1016/j.tate.2011.08.001.Women, Higher Education and Career Choice; Women's experiences of higher education and career choice in Ireland and Uganda
Saarbrucken, Germany: Lambert Academic Publishing.Teaching Global Perspectives: Introducing Student Teachers to Development Education
Dublin: Liffey Press.The silent politics of educational disadvantage and the National Anti-poverty Strategy
Irish Educational Studies. 2010. DOI : 10.1080/03323311003779076.Teacher education, emotional competencies and development education
Procedia - Social and Behavioural Sciences. 2010. DOI : 10.1016/j.sbspro.2010.03.352.Working in the action/research nexus for education for sustainable development; two case studies from Ireland
International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education. 2008.Re-imagining the traditional lecture: an action research approach to teaching student teachers to ‘do’ philosophy
Teaching in Higher Education. 2008. DOI : 10.1080/13562510802045337.Education and Poverty
Welfare Policy and Poverty; Dublin: Institute for Public Administration, 2007. p. 169-200.The construction of national identity through primary school history: the Irish case
British Journal of Sociology of Education. 2006.Teaching & PhD
Teaching
Humanities and Social Sciences Program
Courses
Ethics for Life Sciences engineers
The decisions that life science engineers make can have profound impacts on other people, on society, and on the environment. It is important, therefore, to be aware of the potential effects of decisions, and to have a set of ethical principles and analytical tools to make good ethical decisions.
Science and Engineering Teaching and Learning - FALL
This course develops teaching skills through the introduction of research-informed approaches and the opportunity to practice strategies appropriate for higher education science and technology contexts (exercises, labs, projects and traditional courses).
Science and Engineering Teaching and Learning - SPRING
This course develops teaching skills through the introduction of research-informed approaches and the opportunity to practice strategies appropriate for higher education science and technology contexts (exercises, labs, projects and traditional courses).
Becoming an ethical engineer
Students will develop an understanding of the psychological and social processes of learning the following competences: (i) ethical sensitivity, (ii) ethical reasoning, (iii) ethical motivation, and (iv) ethical agency. Students will, at the same time, develop these capabilities.
How people learn: Designing Learning Tools I
The students will understand the cognitive and social factors which affect learning - particularly in science and engineering. They will be able to use social research techniques as part of the design process to understand end users.