Blind In Business
Web-site last updated in January 2012:
Blind in Business is a registered charity (1011957) which operates across the United Kingdom. We help blind and partially sighted students into work through our training and employment services. We encourage blind and partially sighted people to identify and achieve their ambitions.
All of our services are free to students.
Why not join us on Twitter? http://twitter.com/#search?q=blindinbusiness
Employment Services
Our employment services support A-Level students, undergraduates and graduates with their transition from education to employment.
We have 19 years experience of the recruitment process and extensive knowledge of the needs of partially sighted and blind candidates.
We work with employers to help them manage the recruitment of partially sighted and blind people.
Training Services
Our training services work with blind school children, their parents and teachers to raise their career aspirations.
We run training days in schools across the UK working with over 400 school children annually.
We provide additional support for blind children through our mentoring service.
If you are young and want to start your own business, get in touch and we are willing to listen/help/advise.
We are currently conducting a research study that investigates how people with vision loss go about their daily life. The study is conducted at Durham University under supervision of Doctor Lore Thaler, Department of Psychology, Durham University, Durham, UK, Telephone UK: 01913343290, E-mail lore.thaler@durham.ac.uk.The research has been given advisory approval by the Applied Psychology Ethics Committee in the Department of Psychology at Durham University
The purpose of this research is to find out what influences the independence of people with vision loss in their daily life. To investigate this, we ask participants to complete a questionnaire that has 45 questions. The questions range from basic personal questions (i.e. age, gender), to questions about vision loss, education, work, mobility or social life. It may take up to 30 minutes to answer all the questions. We do not collect any identifiable information about participants.
For more information about the survey and to participate please go to the survey webpage http://www.dur.ac.uk/lore.thaler/survey.htm
If you have any questions please contact Lore Thaler, Department of Psychology, Durham University, Durham, UK, Telephone UK: 01913343290, E-mail lore.thaler@durham.ac.uk
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