People



Lynne Barnes

Address University of Central Lancashire Livesey 216 Preston, PR1 2HE Telephone +44 (0)1772-893098 (Voice/Text) Position Principal Lecturer, Programme Co-ordinator for Deaf Studies Email lbarnes@uclan.ac.uk

Lynne is Programme Co-ordinator for the Deaf Studies team. She worked as a teacher of deaf children and as support tutor for post-16 deaf students before setting up the BA Deaf Studies degree at Preston in 1993. Lynne also acts as an Adviser to the 65+ deaf and hard of hearing students across the university. Her research interests are in the education of deaf children and access for deaf students within Higher Education, for which she gained an MA in 2005. She has organised, and contributed papers to, numerous conferences, developed a national Access Course for Deaf Students, and is a consultant on many working groups and projects which support deaf students in H.E.

Publications

Barnes, L .(2001) Supporting Deaf Students in Higher Education: A University Service in Deaf Students in Higher Education: Developing and Improving Specialist Support Provision. Nottingham Trent University. Pp 5
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Barnes, L. & Wight, R. (eds) (2002) Deaf Students in Higher Education. How Inclusive Are You? RNID, London. Pp 63.

Quinn, G. & Barnes, L. (2004) 'Year Nought for Deaf Students at the University of Central Lancashire: Opening doors to Higher Education - Developing and Enhancing Study Skills for Deaf Students'. In Storbeck, C. (ed.) Building bridges to literacy: Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Deaf Education. University of
Witwatersrand: Witwatersrand. 70-83. ISBN: 1-86838-341-5.

Richardson, J.T.E., Barnes L. and Fleming, J. (2004) Approaches to Studying and Perceptions of Academic Quality in Deaf and Hearing Students in Higher Education. Deafness and Education International. ISSN 1464-3154. 56-75.

Barnes, L. Dodds, J. Haddon, C, Mowe, K & Pollitt. K. (2005)  Around the Language Table: A Discussion about the Working Practices of Language Tutors with Deaf Students - e-Journal: International Perspectives on Language Support: Selected proceedings of the Supporting Deaf People online conferences 2001 - 2005 141 pages, ISBN 0-9551424-1-5, price £7.99