Scottish Sensory Centre - Research Visit with Dr John Ravenscroft - 12th June 2019

Research visit to the Scottish Sensory Centre, Dr John Ravenscroft
12th June 2019.
Notes:

• Ravenscroft, J. (2019). The Routledge Handbook of Visual Impairment: Social and Cultural Research, Routledge. Suggested chapter 2 for philosophies.
• John Kennedy - Sighted and writes from the perspective of blind artist. Main academic regarding blind artists
• David Feeney - Hope University Liverpool. Writes about art/art world, visually impaired
• Simon Hayhoe - (contact established already)
• CVI - Cerebral (Cortical) Visual Impairment https://cviscotland.org/ "Interesting notion of representation"
• Gordon Dutton  - Retired, Glasgow https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Gordon_Dutton2. World expert on CVI. Maybe a keynote speaker for Public Engagement? Check for papers written with Sylvie Chokron
• Vision and the brain - Gordon Dutton and Amanda Lewick?
• CVI Artists to be researched. Or artists with cerebral palsy, dorsal stream damage
• Journals https://journals.sagepub.com/home/jvb (Journal of Visual Impairment UK. (& Blindness, USA)
• Public Engagement ideas - SSC will do it, facilitate and support knowledge exchange and  dissemination of research to the Visual Impairment network across the UK. Tell SSC and they will put it on.
• Steve Hollingsworth - PhD in Glasgowd. Creates sound and visuals
• "You don't need ideas to see" Ricciardi, E., et al. (2009). "Do we really need vision? How blind people "see" the actions of others." The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 29(31): 9719.
• The brain's visual system function fine without vision