Simon Hayhoe

Awards

PhD Scholarship (Birmingham University, 1999) MEd Scholarship (Leicester University, 1993) Fulbright All-Disciplines Scholar''s Award (2010 for 2011) (2011) Occasional Lecturer''s Fund Award, US State Department. (2012) Scholarly Activities Prize, Sharjah Higher Colleges of Technology, Sharjah, UAE. (2013) Learning Technology Innovation Grant from the London School of Economics, UK, to study the use of mobile technologies by disabled students.

Experience Keywords

ICT; IT; access; art; arts; blind; blindness; computer programming; disability discrimination; disability; disability; disabled; education; fine art; impaired; impairment; integration; special educational needs; special needs; tactile culture.; tactile; touch; visual culture; visual impairment

Research Summary

Simon is involved with social psychological and philosophical research in the field of visual culture and blindness, and the definition and study of disability. He is also involved with the following charities in a consultative capacity: Art Beyond Sight (New York, US), The Beyond Sight Foundation (Mumbai, India) and SonoKids (Netherlands / Australia); and has written on this subject as a visiting school teacher fellow at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, and as a school teacher visitor at Pembroke College, Cambridge. He was also recently awarded a Fulbright All Disciplines Scholar''s Award to take an appointment as a Visiting Fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from July 2011. Simon has a PhD and MEd by research in the study of blindness and the arts - his PhD was co-supervised by Professor John Hull, author of ''Touching the Rock''.

Research Countries

Austria; Canada; France; Germany; Greece; India; Italy; Japan; Middle East; Persian Gulf Region; UK; US; United Arab Emirates; the Gulf Cooperation Council

Languages

Italian [Spoken: Basic, Written: Basic]