Communications

Biographical Details:

Staff member of DCU since 1992. Head of School, 2002-. Chair of programme board, Masters in Science Communication, teaching Science in the Media on that programme. Previously, for twenty years, and occasionally still, a journalist, reporting and reviewing politics, foreign affairs, industrial relations, music (especially jazz), industry, technology (especially IT), media and much else for newspapers, magazines and radio.

Research Interests:

Science in society; science in media; Online journalism; Internet and society

Selected Peer Reviewed Journals

• Brian Trench and Gary Quinn. 2003. Online news and changing models of journalism. Irish Communications Review, 9,, pp1-11.
• ENSCOT Team. 2003. ENSCOT: the European Network of Science Communication Teachers. Public Understanding Of Science, 12, , pp167-181.
• Trench, B and O'Donnell, S. 1997. The Internet and democratic participation: Uses of ICTs by voluntary and community organisations in Ireland. Economic And Social Review, 28,, pp213-234.
• Trench, B and Sterne, J. 1994. Science and technology: the media's blind spot. Irish Communications Review, 4,, pp18-29.
• Trench, B. 1992. Media Coverage of Disability. Irish Communications Review, 2,, pp20-25.

Selected Books

• Trench, B and O'Donnell, S. Voluntary and community organizations in Ireland's 'information society', Association for Volunary Action Research in Ireland, 1999.
• Trench B. Jargon Buster: a Guide to Information Technology, ICL, 1992.
• Trench B (ed.). Magill Election 87, Magill, 1987.
• Trench, B (ed). Magill Book of Politics, Magill, 1983.

Selected Chapters

• Brian Trench. 2007. Science News on the Net. Communicating European Research 2005
• Brian Trench. 2007. How the Internet changes science journalism. Journalism, Science and Society - Science Communication between News and Public Relations
• Brian Trench. 2007. Irish Media Representations of Science. Mapping Irish Media ¿ critical explorations
• Brian Trench. 2004. At handtere usikkerhed - Videnskabsformidling pa nettet. Det Digitale Naervaer - viden og design i nye medier, pp62-75.
• Brian Trench. 2003. Les nouvelles scientifiques sur le web: exploration de nouveaux espaces d'information. Les Territoires de la Culture Scientifique, pp17-40.
• Brian Trench. 2003. Science, Culture and Religion in Contemporary Ireland. Religion and Science ¿ education, ethics and public policy, pp29-46.
• Brian Trench. 2003. New roles for users in online news? Exploring the application of interactivity through European case studies. The European Information Society - a reality check, pp205-224.
• Trench, B. 2001. Computers in Schools - a level playing field?. Education and the Information Age - current progress and future strategies, pp41-58.
• Trench, B. 2000. Social Issues In Internet Use. Achieving Equality in the Information Society (WRC Social and Economic Consultants, Dublin), pp91-102.
• Trench, B. 1999. Computers in the classroom: a question of control. Irish Education for the 21st Century, ed. by N. Ward and T. Dooney (Oak Tree Press, Dublin), pp97-112.
• Trench, B. 1998. Science Reporting: science or journalism?. La Promotion de la Culture Scientifique et Technique: ses acteurs et leurs logiques (Publications de l'Universite Paris 7 - Denis Diderot, Paris, 1998), pp111-124.
• Trench, B. 1991. In Search of Hope: coverage of the Northern conflict in the Dublin daily papers. The Media and Northern Ireland - covering the Troubles, ed. by B. Rolston (Macmillan, 1991), pp136-151.

Selected Non-peer Reviewed Journals

• Brian Trench. 2003. Science Culture and Public Affairs. The Republic - a journal of contemporary and historical debate, 3, pp53-63.
• Trench, B. 1995. Copyright and New Technologies. An Leabharlann / The Irish Library, 11, pp121-128.

• Trench, B, Looking at science behind the scenes, Copenhagen Dissensus - research, money, politics and journalism, 01-JUN-07 - 01-JUN-07, Copenhagen
• Trench, B, Science communication and citizen science ¿ is the deficit model dead?, Scientific Culture for Global Citizenship, ninth international conference on Public Communication of Science and Technology, 17-MAY-06 - 19-MAY-06, Seoul
• Trench, B, Models of science communication: how scientists view their public communication, BA Festival of Science, 09-SEP-05 - 13-SEP-05, Trinity College Dublin
• Trench, B, The Internet: challenging the roles of experts, BA Festival of Science, 09-SEP-05 - 13-SEP-05, Trinity College Dublin
• Trench, B, Representations of Science in the Knowledge Society, Scientific Knowledge and Cultural Diversity, eighth international conference on Public Communication of Science and Technology, 06-APR-04 - 09-APR-04, Barcelona
• Trench B, Science communication in the knowledge economy - the Irish case, ENSCOT Project Conference, 04-NOV-02 - 05-NOV-02, DCU
• Trench, B and Quinn, G, Users' Roles in Online News, Media Transformations in Europe, 17-JUN-02 - 18-JUN-02, Brussels
• Trench, B, Science Culture and Religion in contemporary Ireland, Religion and Science - Education, Ethics and Public Policy, St Patrick's College, Drumcondra , 22-MAR-02 - 23-MAR-02, Dublin
• Trench, B, Science and the Knowledge Economy: views from a communication perspective, National Conference of Australian Science Communicators, 23-SEP-01 - 26-SEP-01, Sydney, Australia
• Trench, B, Teaching Professional Values: the lessons from online journalism, Fourth Conference on the Regional media in Europe and the role of journalists, 14-SEP-01 - 16-SEP-01, Volos, Greece
• Trench, B, Internet Journalism are we ready?, New Competencies for Production and Consumption of Computer-based Media, 18-MAY-00 - 20-MAY-00, Roskilde University, Denmark
• Trench, B, Science in the Popular Media an impossible fit?, 670th Meeting of Biochemical Society, 07-SEP-99 - 09-SEP-99, Cork
• Trench, B, Science Reporting without Science Journalists, Second World Conference of Science Journalists, 02-JUL-99 - 04-JUL-99, Budapest
• Trench, B, IT and Service Delivery the challenge to the civil service, Civil Service Information Technology Group Annual Seminar: Quality Service Delivery - the millennium challenge, 14-OCT-98 - 14-OCT-98, Dublin
• Trench, B, Science Reporting in Europe: from comparison to critique, Science Without Frontiers: fifth world conference of Public Communication of Science and Technology network, 17-SEP-98 - 19-SEP-98, Berlin
• Trench, B, Interactive Newspapers: from access to participation, Conference of Society of Newspaper Design Scandinavia, 10-MAY-97 - 12-MAY-97, Billund, Denmark
• Trench, B, Sharing Public Information in the information society, National Software Conference of Irish Software Association, 12-APR-97 - 12-APR-97, Dublin
• Trench, B, Making Sense of the Internet, Harnessing the Internet, Conference for voluntary and community organisations, 13-SEP-96 - 13-SEP-96, Dublin City University
• Trench, B, New Technologies, New Modes of Journalism, World Congress of International Federation of Agricultural Journalists, 06-MAY-96 - 08-MAY-96, Dublin