Cicely Roche

Biography

Cicely Roche's career as a pharmacist has been largely in community pharmacy, in Ireland and Ontario, in both management and ownership capacities, although her first two years post-registration as a pharmacist were spent working in Quality Assurance at LEO Laboratories in Dublin. She is a past President of the Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland (PSI) (2001 to 2003), current chair of the PSI Fitness to Practice Committee (Health),founding chair and member of the Pharmacy Law and Ethics Association (Ireland) and a recent past member of the Boards of the Irish Medicines Board (IMB) and the Irish Centre for Continuing Pharmaceutical Education (ICCPE). Her key interests are in the areas of Ethics and Professional reasoning, Higher Education and Continuing professional development, the development of advanced services in Community Pharmacy and in the value of quality assurance systems in pharmacy settings. Her PhD thesis explored the development of moral reasoning competencies in pharmacists. Cicely joined the staff of the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, as a Senior Lecturer (now Associate Professor) in the Practice of Pharmacy, in a half-time position, in November 2009.

Research Interest

Assessment of Judgement and Decision making Skills; Business Ethics; Ethics; moral reasoning development; Neo-Kohlbergian theory; Patient Care and Education; Peer To Peer Networks; Pharmacy; Professional Development and Reflective Practice; Technology Enhanced Learning; Virtual learning environments