Barry Brophy provides presentation skills training to companies mainly in the technical sector (BP, Wyeth, ESB, PM, Faber Maunsell, Cable & Wireless, ESBI, Jacobs Engineering) but also gives courses in general presentation skills (Charterhouse Intl., Dandara). Although an engineer himself, he has been studying areas of cognitive psychology for the past ten years in order to tackle the problem of how people understand and learn complex material and how they communicate these insights to each other.

Barry moved from industry into the mechanical engineering department of University College Dublin nine years ago. In that time he has worked as a lecturer and as an engineer on EU funded research projects. He has also set up a presentation skills programme for students.

Barry is currently setting up a collaborative project in the area of communicating complex concepts with Isabelle Blanchette who is based in the Psychology department of the University of Manchester. Isabelle has done extensive research on analogy, reasoning and memory.