Simon Hayhoe
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| Born | 1969
UK
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| Nationality | British |
| Citizenship | British |
| Alma mater | Birmingham University, UK (PhD) Leicester University, UK (MEd) University of Bath, UK (PGCE) Coventry School of Art & Design, Coventry University, UK (BA) |
| Known for | Arts and Blindness Arts Education of the Blind Cultural/National Model of Disability Epistemological Model of Disability |
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| Fields | Education SEN Social Psychology History of Education Blindness Visual Arts |
| Institutions | Institute of Education, University of London, UK Birkbeck, University of London, UK University of Toronto, Canada London School of Economics and Political Science, London University, UK |
| Doctoral advisor | Professor John Hull |
Simon Hayhoe (born UK, 1969) wrote the monographs, Grounded Theory and Disability Studies[1] on the application of grounded theory in his study of blindness, Arts, Culture and Blindness[2] on social and cultural factors affecting the arts education of blind adults and school children, and God, Money and Politics,[3] the first book on the history of English education for the blind, since Illingworth's History of the Education of the Blind in 1910.[4] These and previous works on this topic has been cited in papers from subjects as diverse as perceptual psychology[5] to human geography.[6]
Hayhoe's work on the history and the epistemology of blindness is the subject of Course PSYC54 Cognition and Representation at the University of Toronto (Canada),.[7] In addition, his writing has been the topic of discussion on BBC Radio 4 in the UK and syndicated radio in the USA[8] and a theatrical installation project in London by Extant and the Open University.
During his early work on blindness and arts education, Hayhoe was a student of Professor Maurice Galton, head of the Faculty of Education at Leicester University (now Senior Research Fellow at Homerton College, Cambridge University); and then of John M Hull, Professor of Religious Education at Birmingham University (now Emeritus Professor, and Honorary Professor of Practical Theology at The Queen’s Foundation for Ecumenical Theological Education), author of the autobiographical book Touching the Rock: An Experience of Blindness. He then worked on two major research projects in the field of social exclusion in England for Birkbeck, University of London and the Institute of Education, University of London, and then in Canada at Toronto University, Scarborough, during which time he developed the BART (Blindness in Art) project, studying cultural and social exclusion of blind students in visual arts education, and wrote on the development of an epistemological model of disability.
Hayhoe is currently a member of faculty at Sharjah Women's College, and a centre research associate in the Centre for the Philosophy of Natural and Social Science, London School of Economics, where he is researching the epistemology of disability and ability, with special reference to education.
Whilst teaching in London, he developed the Four Senses project in conjunction with the Royal London School for the Blind (part of the Royal London Society for the Blind) and the Victoria & Albert Museum, and the designed the Computing and Blindness in Education project, which was the first research of its type to investigate the cultural and social factors affecting blind adults and school children using visual programming languages. The COMBINE project was presented to BETT 2009 and 2011, at Kensington Olympia, London, in a lecture to the British Computer Society, and appears in books on Mulsemedia and IT in education. Its reports are also published in conjunction with the British Computer Association of the Blind[9] (part of the RNIB).
Hayhoe's essays and articles also appear in standard works on education and blindness, such as the American Foundation for the Blind's Art Beyond Sight[10] and, more recently, the Encyclopedia of American Disability History.[11] In addition, he is a consultant and chair of the Educational Psychology Research Group for Art Beyond Sight (New York, USA), the Beyond Sight Foundation (Mumbai, India) and the editor of the on-line knowledge base ECO: On Blindness and the Arts,[12] which is contributed to by authors such as the neurologist Professor Oliver Sacks and the blind artist Eşref Armağan.
He has won a number of awards in this field, including a Fulbright All Disciplines Scholar's Award to conduct a fellowship at The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, USA) and was a finalist in the London 2012's Great Briton's Prize. He has also delivered guest lectures at Harvard University, the London School of Economics, MIT, UC, Berkeley, Toronto University, The Province of Milan and the Free University, Brussels.
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