Roland Tormey

Tormey is a member of the board of directors of the European Society for Engineering Education (SEFI; elected in 2020), member of the board of directors of Global Schoolroom (since 2013), and co-chair of the SEFI Engineering Ethics Special Interest Group (since 2019). He was previously a member of the board of the Swiss Faculty Development Network (SFDN; 2016–2020). He has represented 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.

Since 2011, he has worked at EPFL, where he teaches and researches in learning sciences and engineering education and is head of the Teaching Support Centre.

Tormey studied sociology and social administration at the University College Dublin and earned his bachelor's degree in 1992. He then perused a PhD in sociology and joined James Wickham at the Trinity College Dublin. He graduated in 2000 with a thesis on "The Part-Time Soul: Case Studies in the Management of Culture and Flexibility in Irish Retail." At the London South Bank University he earned a postgraduate certificate in development and environmental education in 2000. From 1996 to 2004 he was a lecturer in sociology at Mary Immaculate College at the University of Limerick, before moving to the Department of Education and Professional Studies at University of Limerick, where he become Department Head in 2009.

Roland Tormey (born 1971 in Dublin) is an Irish sociologist, teacher, researcher and curriculum developer. He is the head of Teaching Support Centre at EPFL's (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) College of Humanities.