Roland Tormey
Conseiller pédagogique
roland.tormey@epfl.ch +41 21 69 32363 https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Roland_Tormey
EPFL E-DAF CAPE
BP 1234 (Bâtiment BP)
Station 16
CH-1015 Lausanne
Unité: SHS-ENS
Current work
The focus of my work is on improving learning and teaching in higher education science and engineering.
I coordinate the Teaching Support Centre, which offers a range of services to EPFL lecturers and professors including (a) teaching evaluation and coaching, (b) pedagogical workshops, (c) research and development support and (d) teacher support activities.
I teach a course on the Social and Behavioural Sciences of Learning across the EPFL Master programmes, as well as a number of courses on teaching science and engineering in higher education. I have also developed (with Cécile Hardebolle) a massive open on-line course to aid students making the transition from second-level to university, called Apprendre à étudier.
My research and development work focuses on (a) scalable innovations in science and engineering teaching and learning and (b) social and human dimensions of engineering education
Biography
I started my academic research with a PhD in industrial sociology at Trinity College Dublin. However, volunteering and working in refugee education during the conflicts in Rwanda and Bosnia in the mid-1990s led me to switch focus and so I began to work in education and teacher education.
I worked in primary and post-primary teacher education in Limerick, Ireland for fifteen years, teaching sociology, history, philosophy and psychology of education while researching identity and inequality issues in education.
At the same time I also worked on the development of curricular materials for the Irish National Council for Curriculum and Assessment, including the award-winning Intercultural Education Guidelines for both primary and second-level schools. I was also centrally involved in developing the senior second-level social science syllabus, Politics and Society. At this time I also represented the Government of Ireland on the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) Steering Committee and Task Force on the Decade of Education for Sustainable Development and was co-chair of the UNECE Expert Group on Competences in ESD from 2009 to 2011.
My work on intercultural education led me to recognise the role of emotion and emotional regulation in education. This led to work (with Roisin Corcoran) on emotion in teacher education which has been identified by the journal Teaching and Teacher Education as among the key contributions in the field.
Since 2011 I have worked in Engineering and Science education at EPFL.
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 |
Publications
MAIN PUBLICATIONS
R. Arandes; T. Bornet Dit Vorgeat; L.-D. Renaud; E. Richard; P. Poscio et al. : 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.
I. Le Duc; R. Tormey; C. Hardebolle; S. R. Isaac; H. Fueger : 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.
R. Tormey; C. Hardebolle : Apprendre à étudier - Guide à l'usage des étudiants en sciences et en ingénierie ; PPUR.
C. Hardebolle; P. Poscio; R. Tormey : How do students perceive academic success in secondary schools and in higher education?. 2018-02-02. SFDN Conference 2018, Lucerne, Switzerland, 2 February 2018.
A. C. Holzer; D. Gillet; M. Laperrouza; J.-P. Maître; R. Tormey et al. : Fostering 21st Century Skills through Interdisciplinary Learning Experiences. 2018. 46th SEFI Annual Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark.
R. Tormey; C. Hardebolle : 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.
R. Tormey : Curriculum co-design using participatory rapid prototyping tools. 2017. 45th SEFI Conference, Azores, Portugal, September 18-21, 2017.
I. Le Duc; R. Tormey; S. R. Isaac; C. Hardebolle; I. Vonèche Cardia : 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.
I. Le Duc; S. Isaac; R. Tormey; C. Hardebolle; I. Vonèche Cardia : 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.
A. Holzer; I. Vonèche Cardia; S. Bendahan; A. Berne; L. Bragazza et al. : Increasing the Perspectives of Engineering Undergraduates on Societal Issues through an Interdisciplinary Program; International Journal of Engineering Education. 2016.
S. Cuendet; R. Tormey : 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.
S. R. Isaac; R. Tormey : Undergraduate group projects: Challenges and learning experiences; QScience Proceedings (Engineering Leaders Conference 2014). 2015. DOI : 10.5339/qproc.2015.elc2014.19.
R. Tormey; I. Le Duc; S. R. Isaac; C. Hardebolle; I. Vonèche Cardia : The Formal and Hidden Curricula of Ethics in Engineering Education. 2015. 43rd Annual SEFI Conference, Orleans, France, June 29 - July 2, 2015.
A. Loya; A. Gopal; I. Shukla; P. Jermann; R. Tormey : 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.
R. Tormey : 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.
T. J. Batteson; R. Tormey; T. D. Ritchie : 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.
M. Raca; P. Dillenbourg; R. Tormey : Sleepers’ lag - study on motion and attention. 2014. 4th Internation Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA, March 24-28, 2014.
M. Raca; R. Tormey; P. Dillenbourg : Student motion and it's potential as a classroom performance metric ; 3rd International Workshop on Teaching Analytics (IWTA), Paphos, Cyprus, September 17-21, 2013.
R. Corcoran; R. Tormey : Does emotional intelligence predict student teachers' performance?; Teaching and Teacher Education. 2013. DOI : 10.1016/j.tate.2013.04.008.
M. Liddy; R. Tormey : A question of knowledge; Education that Matters: Teachers, Critical Pedagogy and Development Education and Local and Global Level; Oxford: Peter Lang, 2013.
R. Corcoran; R. Tormey : Developing Emotionally Competent Teachers; Emotional Intelligence and Pre-Service Teacher Education ; Oxford: Peter Lang.
D. Ní Chróinín; M. O’Sullivan; R. Tormey : 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. 2012. DOI : 10.1080/02619768.2012.696191.
R. Tormey; J. Gleeson : Irish post-primary students' attitudes towards ethnic minorities; Irish Educational Studies. 2012. DOI : 10.1080/03323315.2012.676234.
R. P. Corcoran; R. Tormey : How emotionally intelligent are pre-service teachers?; Teaching and Teacher Education. 2012. DOI : 10.1016/j.tate.2012.02.007.
R. Tormey; J. Gleeson : 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.
R. P. Corcoran; R. Tormey : 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.
D. Ní Chróinín; R. Tormey; M. O'Sullivan : Beginning teacher standards for physical education: Promoting a democratic ideal?; Teaching and Teacher Education. 2012.
N. Namara; R. Tormey : 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.
R. Tormey : The silent politics of educational disadvantage and the National Anti-poverty Strategy; Irish Educational Studies. 2010.
R. Corcoran; R. Tormey : Teacher education, emotional competencies and development education; Procedia - Social and Behavioural Sciences. 2010.
R. Tormey; M. Liddy; H. Maguire; A. McCloat : Working in the action/research nexus for education for sustainable development; two case studies from Ireland; International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education. 2008.
R. Tormey; D. Henchy : Re-imagining the traditional lecture: an action research approach to teaching student teachers to ‘do’ philosophy; Teaching in Higher Education. 2008.
R. Tormey : Education and Poverty; Welfare Policy and Poverty; Dublin: Institute for Public Administration, 2007. p. 169-200.
R. Tormey : The construction of national identity through primary school history: the Irish case; British Journal of Sociology of Education. 2006.
Enseignement & Phd
Enseignement
- Humanities and Social Sciences Program,
Programmes doctoraux
Doctorants
Cours
How people learn I
Les étudiant.e.s comprendront le processus de la formation de professionnels (ingénieurs ou enseignants par exemple) et pourront différencier les phases d'apprentissage : (a) formation initiale, (b) début de carrière et (c) développement continu de profes... 
How people learn II
Les étudiant.e.s comprendront le processus de la formation de professionnels (ingénieurs ou enseignants par exemple) et pourront différencier les phases d'apprentissage : (a) formation initiale, (b) début de carrière et (c) développement continu de profes...
Science and Engineering Teaching and Learning