Programme

9.00 Registration and refreshments

9.45     Welcome: Keziah Latham

9.55 - 10.35     Lecture One: Wearable Electronic Vision Enhancement Systems: A Glimpse of the Future or Just Old Hat? - Andrew Miller 

10.35 - 11.00     RWPN Annual General Meeting

11.00 - 11.25     break

11.25 - 12.15  Lecture Two: Anatomy of the eye and links to eye health (provisional title) -  Keziah Latham Professor of Optometry, Director of Vision & Hearing Sciences, Vision and Eye Research Institute

12.15 - 13.15 Lunch

13.15 - 14.05 Workshop: One of three from: 

a) Filters (provisional title)  Richard Bowring, Associated Optical and Jane MacNaughton, Anglia Ruskin University

b) Should there be a qualification for VRS assistants?  Widening professional opportunities, growing the profession and meeting unmet needs or a potential threat to the survival of the profession by accident?   A session that will guide RWPN’s position on the issue. Discussion and debate led by Simon Labbett and Shaun Basham

c) Tommy Dean Guide Dogs (content to be agreed)

14.05 - 14.30    break 

14.30 - 15.20    Workshop: One from the three above

15.20 - Closing comments

Notes

£47 per person including buffet lunch and refreshments

Support workers no charge (but must be included for numbers in the booking)