Dr Peter Simcock
@peterjsimcock.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Social Work. Interested in deafblindness, social work law and adult safeguarding. Chair of the Deafblind International Acquired Deafblindness Network (ADBN). https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Peter-Simcock
Usability of assistive listening devices by older adults with low vision: Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology: Vol 11 , No 7 - Get Access www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Usability of assistive listening devices by older adults with low vision
Purpose: This study examines the performance of individuals with both hearing and vision loss when using assistive listening devices. Methods: Older adults (age 60–100) with low vision only (n = 23...
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I am excited to announce that the WHO ICF Core Sets for #deafblindness are now complete and available free online: www.icf-research-branch.org?view=article...
ICF RESEARCH BRANCH - ICF Core Sets for Deafblindness
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Enjoyed making a short video about our research project with @walterwittich.bsky.social and @peterjsimcock.bsky.social, for @dbiconnect.bsky.social who supported the pilot phase -watch this space! www.chsglobalpartnerships.com/growing-bein...
Huge thanks to @rnibradio.bsky.social for inviting me on the show to talk about our new #Deafblind UK Centre for Education & Research. audioboom.com/posts/865489...
Deafblind UK Research Centre To Launch At BCU
Barry Snell talks to Dr Peter Simcock, from Birmingham City University (BCU), about an exciting new education and research centre, which hopes to address the issue of dual sensory loss.
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Did you know that you can set up a reminder to add alt text! Alt text helps vision impaired posters understand images. Go to Settings, then Accessibility, and make sure "Require alt text before posting" is toggled on - this will prompt you each time you add an image to your post! 3rd request
Richard Duggan@richardduggan.bsky.social · 2y agoFront page of Tuesday's @boltonnews.bsky.social📰 #TomorrowsPapersToday #Bolton #BuyAPaper #LocalNewsMatters #Newsquest #BWFC
Wonderful to meet colleagues from Ukraine to talk about our new #Deafblind UK Centre for Education & Research & ‘Deafblind Studies’ ar BCU www.birminghamworld.uk/community/international-project-aims-to-improve-complex-eye-injury-treatment-options-for-soldiers-fighting-in-ukraine-4991687
International project aims to improve complex eye injury treatment options for soldiers fighting in Ukraine
Birmingham City University (BCU) has welcomed a delegation of health and education professionals from Ukraine as part of an internationally significant project focused on improving treatment options f...
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We have an excellent programme of speakers for our forthcoming free online conference: #Intersectionality: Is #Poverty the Missing Link? Registration link below. All welcome. #SocialWork www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/intersectionality-is-poverty-the-missing-link-day-2-tickets-753779022347
Intersectionality: Is Poverty the Missing Link? Day 2
This is the fifth jointly organised conference
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Are you preparing to #commission local #olderpeople’s #daycentre provision? How much do you know about these services? Read about the research #evidence on the Day Centre Resources Hub arc-sl.nihr.ac.uk/day-centre-r... @arc-sl @hscwru
Day Centre Resources Hub
These resources are for day centres and organisations who may work with them. They aim to support day centre sustainability by improving knowledge about them, supporting their operation and encouragin...
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Fantastic news! @peterjsimcock.bsky.social this will make such a difference under such great leadership! Well done!!
Birmingham City University@mybcu.bsky.social · 2y ago‘Game changing’ Deafblind UK research centre to launch at BCU 🦯 The centre, which is the first of its kind, will connect researchers, practitioners, and people living with deafblindness to increase knowledge and raise awareness. 📰 Read more: https://www.bcu.ac.uk/news-events/news/game-changing-de…
This is amazing and I’d be happy to take part in any research or whatever. I’m based in Lancashire and connect most often with the Cure Usher charity but would love to know more about Deafblind UK and this new centre. Thank you!
My interest in #deafblindness began in the ‘90s when volunteering with @DeafblindUK so I’m absolutely delighted to be working with them & leading our new Education and Research Centre, responding to the urgent need for more research in the field.
Birmingham City University@mybcu.bsky.social · 2y ago‘Game changing’ Deafblind UK research centre to launch at BCU 🦯 The centre, which is the first of its kind, will connect researchers, practitioners, and people living with deafblindness to increase knowledge and raise awareness. 📰 Read more: https://www.bcu.ac.uk/news-events/news/game-changing-de…
‘Game changing’ Deafblind UK research centre to launch at BCU 🦯 The centre, which is the first of its kind, will connect researchers, practitioners, and people living with deafblindness to increase knowledge and raise awareness. 📰 Read more: https://www.bcu.ac.uk/news-events/news/game-changing-de…
GIVING VOICE BY DOING WITH NOT DOING THROUGH: COLLABORATING WITH TACTILE SIGN LANGUAGE INTERPRETERS IN INTERPRETATIVE PHENOMENOLOGICAL ANALYSIS RESEARCH INVOLVING OLDER DEAFBLIND PEOPLE Simcock, P. et al (2025) / Qualitative Social Work #openaccess #socialwork doi.org/10.1177/1473...
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Delighted to be a CI on this exciting project, working with PI @walterwittich.bsky.social and @kamenopoulou.bsky.social www.chsglobalpartnerships.com/growing-bein... #deafblind
Growing Up & Being Deafblind: Analyzing Comparative Case Studies From the Global South and North to Illuminate Enablers That Lead Towards the Achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. | Can...
Grant Award: $100,000
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Here is the [updated] Nordic definition on #deafblindness norden.diva-portal.org/smash/record...
The Nordic definition on deafblindness
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I’ve now completed exhaustive analysis* of the first 6,800 comments here and can reveal that the public’s preferred metaphor for the new #socialcare commission is ‘kicking the can down the road’, outscoring ‘booting it into the long grass’ by a 2-1 margin. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Streeting defends timescale for social care reform
The first steps to creating a National Care Service are announced - but critics say the pace of the plan
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The cochlear question: as the parent of a deaf baby, should I give her an implant to help her hear?
The cochlear question: as the parent of a deaf baby, should I give her an implant to help her hear?
Cochlear implantation is controversial in ways that parallel medical situations – such as artificial limbs and cornea transplants – are not. Why does this issue provoke such fierce debate? * This essay first appeared under the title The Cochlear…
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Just a handful of MPs attended a debate to mark the international day of disabled people, four days after the House of Commons voted in favour of a bill that would legalise assisted suicide.
Just 16 MPs attend debate on disability rights, days after hundreds vote for assisted suicide
Just a handful of MPs attended a debate to mark the international day of disabled people, four days after the House of Commons voted in favour of a bill that would legalise assisted suicide. More t…
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A starter pack for those looking to connect with the Deafblind Community, champions, allies and researchers go.bsky.app/UZ2XCm Let me know if you want to be included or if you know others who should be on the list Deafblind Community Starterpack
Book Review: Inclusive Education for Learners with Multisensory Impairment: Best Practices and Research Priorities journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #deafblindness by @kamenopoulou.bsky.social
Book Review: Inclusive Education for Learners with Multisensory Impairment: Best Practices and Research Priorities - Walter Wittich, 2024
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Nizza, I. E., Farr, J., & Smith, J. A. (2021). Achieving excellence in interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA): Four markers of high quality. Qualitative Research in Psychology, 18(3), 369–386. doi.org/10.1080/1478...
Achieving excellence in interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA): Four markers of high quality
Existing guidance on evaluating the quality of Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) research has provided criteria to assess work as good, acceptable or unacceptable. Given that IPA has b...
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Don’t reduce social workers to procedural assessors - we’re so much more than that, argues Hannah Scaife PSW South West network. We are more coaches than assessors. Great social care benefits everyone: think ‘us’ not ‘them’
🚨Health and legal experts among 73 academics to sign letter opposing ‘inadequate’ assisted dying bill The academics say Ms Leadbeater’s private member’s bill is “an inadequate parliamentary process for an issue of such ethical and legal complexity”. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Health and legal experts among 73 academics to sign letter opposing assisted dying
Exclusive: The letter says that a private members bill to legalise assisted dying is ‘inadequate’ adding that it ‘lacks prudence...at a time of crisis for the NHS’
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What it is like to participate in Remote Research via the Telephone Using the Montreal Cognitive Assessment in its Blind vertsion formative.jmir.org/2024/1/e58537
Exploring the Qualitative Experiences of Administering and Participating in Remote Research via Telephone Using the Montreal Cognitive Assessment-Blind: Cross-Sectional Study of Older Adults
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic caused a drastic shift in the practice of research and clinical services. It has been noted that cognition measured via in-person versus remote methods differ substan...
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Check out our new open-access paper on #TransitionalSafeguarding by me, @jldamman.bsky.social Gillian Ruch & Susannah Bowyer based on theinnovateproject.co.uk & part of a @sussexcircy.bsky.social special issue. Read it at: ➡️ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
Dr Nathalie Huegler on LinkedIn: ‘We were persistently othering them out’: Reconceptualising ‘safeguarding’…
Thrilled to see online publication of our paper, with Jeri Damman, Gillian Ruch and susannah bowyer on ▶️Reconceptualising ‘safeguarding’ for young people…
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"Death is a social event with a medical component, not a medical event with a social component": www.mentalcapacitylawandpolicy.org.uk/death-is-a-s...
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Disabled campaigners have described the decision of a publicly-owned rail company to carry out partial closures of ticket offices by “stealth” as “unforgivable” and “horrendous”.
Rail company’s ‘stealth’ ticket office cuts plan is ‘unforgivable’ and ‘horrendous’
Disabled campaigners have described the decision of a publicly-owned rail company to carry out partial closures of ticket offices by “stealth” as “unforgivable” and “horrendous”. Their comments cam…
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