Keynote: Joseph Roche

Joseph Roche is an Associate Professor in Science Education at Trinity College Dublin. He is the Director of Research at the School of Education and leads the Science & Society Research Group which coordinates international research projects on science communication, informal learning, citizen science, public engagement, and higher education science. He was the Principal Investigator of Global SCAPE (a European Commission funded research project exploring the global state of science communication) and is a partner on the COALESCE project (a follow-up European Commission funded project to establish a European Science Communication Competence Centre). Joseph has worked at NASA and was a Visiting Scholar at Harvard. He is a Fellow of Trinity College Dublin and is the author of the textbook “Essential Skills for Early Career Researchers”.