Alice Findlay, RNIB Customer Voice Insight Coordinator shares the latest opportunities for blind and partially sighted people to get involved in with RNIB Connect Radio’s Toby Davey.

Opportunities highlighted this week included:

The Health and Social Care Skills Development team at RNIB are looking for participants with lived experience of Charles Bonnet Syndrome to share their stories in order to help create content for video and podcast resources. 

If you think you could help and are interested in finding out more, please email Winnie Smith at [email protected]

King’s College London and RNIB are hosting a creative writing competition for blind and partially sighted writers, based on museum art or home objects. The theme is ‘See differently’, celebrating different ways of seeing, beholding, and sensing museum artworks and everyday objects.

This piece of creative writing can be based on a real experience, or serve as imagined storytelling, so long as it is grounded in visual or material culture as experienced by a person with sight loss. We are keen to explore and celebrate how people with sight loss experience and enjoy museums, art, and objects.  

Your piece can take the form of prose or poetry, in text or audio form, with word limits of 1,000 words or 50 lines.

The competition Deadline is 5pm on Friday 2 February 2024. Submissions should be emailed to [email protected] using the subject heading ‘KCL RNIB writing competition’. 

Research participants wanted for study looking at rail travel by passengers with sight loss

Researchers at the university of Coventry are looking for participants to take part in a research project which looks at the experiences of visually impaired travellers and the aids, skills, and knowledge you use when travelling.  

If you’d like to take part in the study, please register your interest as soon as possible by emailing Emily Nash at [email protected]

To find out more about these Connect Voices opportunities and how you can get involved with RNIB Connect Voices do visit-

https://www.rnib.org.uk/connect-community/connect-voices-network/connect-voices-current-opportunities

(Image shows RNIB logo. 'RNIB' written in black capital letters over a white background and underlined with a bold pink line, with the words 'See differently' underneath)