(panellist) Training for Communicating Science in Dialogue, and Talking Science in the Era of Web 2.0, to FEST - International Science Media Fair, Trieste, April 2008

(panellist) Maximising human resources in science journalism, to European Forum on Science Journalism, Barcelona, December 2007

Risk Communication and the Media, to Risk Communication and Environmental Health Issues, HSE staff seminar, Dublin, October 2007

Science behind the scenes, to Copenhagen Dissensus - research, money, politics, journalism, conference of Danish Science Journalists' Association, Copenhagen, June 2007

Models of science communication: how many can there be? Guest lecture, Open University, Milton Keynes, March 2007

Risk Communication: media issues, to Ethical Dilemmas in a Pandemic, Irish Council for Bioethics Conference, Dublin, October 2006

Science communication and citizen science: how dead is the deficit model? to ninth international conference of Public Communication of Science and Technology network, Seoul, May 2006

Science, Development and the Internet, to Linking the Global and the Local - education for development in a globalising world, Dublin City University, March 2006

Models of science communication: how scientists view their public communication, to Science, Citizenship and Education, BA Festival of Science, Dublin, September 2005

The Internet: challenging the roles of experts, to Science Communication and the Internet, BA Festival of Science, Dublin, September 2005

Local versions of a global concept: the knowledge society in Irish policy discourse, to Contested Terrains, conference of Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, DCU, September 2004

(with Niamh Delaney) Public education on science: how Irish scientific institutions use the Web, to Science and Mathematics Education Conference, Dublin City University, September 2004

Representations of science in the knowledge society, to Scientific Knowledge and Cultural Diversity, eighth International Conference on Public Communication of Science and Technology, Barcelona, June 2004

(with R. Holliman et al) Science in the news: a cross-cultural study of newspapers in five European countries, to seventh international conference on Public Communication of Science and Technology, Cape Town, South Africa, December 2002

Science and the Knowledge Economy: views from a communication perspective, to National Conference of Australian Science Communicators, Sydney, Australia, 23-26 September 2001

Teaching Professional Values: lessons from online journalism, to Fourth International Conference on Regional Media in Europe, Volos, Greece, September 2001

(with Kirk Junker) How Scientists View Public Communication, to sixth international conference on Public Communication of Science and Technology, Geneva, February 2001

Internet Journalism: are we ready? to New Competencies for production and consumption of computer-based media, symposium of Roskilde University, Denmark, May 2000

Science Reporting without Science Journalists, to Second World Conference of Science Journalists, Budapest, July 1999