
Research Projects
SSC Projects
Associates' Projects
Visual Impairment
- Prof John Ravenscroft, Depute Head of School & Senior Lecturer, Moray House School of Education, University of Edinburgh and SSC Co-ordinator
Special Interest: Education of children with visual impairments
- MoLLVIS project plans to create German language learning apps for Windows, Apple and Android devices.
- Dr Nadia Northway, Lecturer in Vision Sciences, Glasgow Caledonian University
Special interest:
Visual processing, Dyslexia, Eye movements
- Dr Margaret Woodhouse, School of Optometry & Vision Sciences, Cardiff University
Special interest: Assessment of vision in children with learning disabilities
- Dr Andrew Blaikie, Consultant Ophthalmologist, Queen Margaret Hospital
Special interest: Paediatric ophthalmology, cerebral visual impairment
- Dr Alison Eardley, Department of Psychology, University of Westminster
Special interest:
Imagination, Imagery, Spatial mental representation in Blind people
- Dr Joao Roe, Sensory Support Service & University of Birmingham
Special Interest: Social and emotional inclusion of children with visual impairments and Braille literacy
- Dr Paula Sterkenburg, Faculty of Psychology & Education, VU University, Amsterdam
Special Interest:
Attachment in the care for persons with visual and intellectual disabilities
Deaf Issues
- Rachel O'Neill, Lecturer in Deaf Education, University of Edinburgh
Special interest: BSL Glossary, Deaf education history, Language assessment
- Dr Emily Nordmann, School of Psychology, University of Aberdeen (Deaf Education)
Special interest: Mathematics & deaf children
- Prof Terezinha Nunes, Professor of Educational Studies, University of Oxford
Special interest: Mathematics, literacy & deaf children
- Prof Gary Morgan, DCAL (Deafness Cognition And Language) Research Centre & City University London
Special Interest: Sign Language studies
- Dr Laurent Galbrun, Assistant Professor in Acoustics in the School of the Built Environment, Heriot-Watt University
Special interests: Building Acoustics, Speech Intelligibility Indoors
- Dr Emmanouela Terlektsi, Post Doctoral Researcher, Oxford Brookes University
Special Interests: Deaf children's imagination and literacy; children's and young people's social emotional development, safeguarding deaf and hearing children; child development
Additional Support Needs
- FIESTA Network Facilitating Inclusive Education and Supporting the Transition Agenda, European Project