PhD students
One co-supervised and three mentored, all at IHBI / School of Optometry, QUT.
Teaching & supervision
Explaining hard things without making them smaller.
Five and a half years teaching into optometry programmes in Australia and India — clinical techniques, ophthalmic optics, visual science and ocular anatomy — plus supervision of PhD and undergraduate research.
Supervision at a glance
Undergraduate project groups
Fourth-year optometry research groups of 4–5 students each, across 2006, 2007, 2008, 2011, 2012 and 2013.
Typical class size
Practical and clinical technique groups; up to 60 for lecture-based Visual Optics in India.
Units taught
Fourteen teaching appointments.
Most were practical and clinical-technique units — the ones where students perform a procedure for the first time and need someone to notice exactly what their hands are doing wrong.
Optometry programme
Queensland University of Technology · Undergraduate optometry
Senior Lecturer, connecting contemporary clinical practice with the underlying vision science.
Ophthalmic Optics 4 (OPB353)
QUT School of Optometry and Vision Science · 2nd year undergraduate optometry
Taught retinoscopy, ophthalmoscopy and keratometry to students performing them for the first time, with groups of about 20.
Topics in Optometry 7 & 8 (OPB750)
QUT School of Optometry and Vision Science · 4th year undergraduate optometry
Designed and supervised a full research project from proposal through experiment, analysis and manuscript preparation.
Project · Underwater vision
Ophthalmic Optics 4 (OPB353)
QUT School of Optometry and Vision Science · 2nd year undergraduate optometry
Clinical technique instruction — retinoscopy, ophthalmoscopy and keratometry.
Ophthalmic Optics 3 (OPB353)
QUT School of Optometry and Vision Science · 2nd year undergraduate optometry
Ophthalmic lenses, prisms and prismatic effects, bifocal and multifocal designs, frame and lens materials, and vertometry.
Topics in Optometry 7 & 8 (OPB750)
QUT School of Optometry and Vision Science · 4th year undergraduate optometry
Supervised a year-long undergraduate research project end to end, including statistical analysis and manuscript preparation.
Project · Effect of diabetes on amplitude of accommodation
Ophthalmic Optics 3 (OPB353)
QUT School of Optometry and Vision Science · 2nd year undergraduate optometry
Ophthalmic lens theory and practical dispensing-adjacent skills.
Ophthalmic Optics 4 (OPB453)
QUT School of Optometry and Vision Science · 2nd year undergraduate optometry
Clinical technique instruction with an emphasis on correcting technique rather than simply grading it.
Ophthalmic Optics 3 (OPB353)
QUT School of Optometry and Vision Science · 2nd year undergraduate optometry
Ophthalmic lenses, prisms, multifocal designs, materials and vertometry.
Optometry 4 (OPB450), Visual Science 4 (OPB451), Ocular Anatomy & Physiology 4 (OPB452)
QUT School of Optometry and Vision Science · Undergraduate optometry
Three units in parallel: clinical techniques including slit lamp and tonometry; the psychophysics of acuity, colour vision and contrast sensitivity; and ocular anatomy including the extraocular muscles.
Optometry 3 (OPB350)
QUT School of Optometry and Vision Science · Undergraduate optometry
Ophthalmic lens theory, prismatic effects and practical measurement.
Topics in Optometry 7 & 8 (OPB750)
QUT School of Optometry and Vision Science · 4th year undergraduate optometry
Supervised an undergraduate research project that later contributed to published work on keratoconus.
Project · Peripheral ocular aberrations in mild and moderate keratoconus
Topics in Optometry 7 & 8 (OPB750, OPB751)
QUT School of Optometry and Vision Science · 4th year undergraduate optometry
Supervised an undergraduate research project that became a peer-reviewed publication in Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics.
Project · The influence of oblique viewing on axial and peripheral refraction for emmetropes and myopes
Visual Optics — lecturer and course coordinator
Bausch & Lomb School of Optometry, L.V. Prasad Eye Institute / BITS, India · Cohort of approximately 60 students
Lectured, ran practical sessions, revised the curriculum to make the optics more approachable, and set and marked all assessment.
Community
Eye care where it is hardest to reach.
Five years of volunteer work through L.V. Prasad Eye Institute and Sightsavers International — school and village screening, talking books, and training field workers in rural Madhya Pradesh.
Talking books for people with vision impairment
L.V. Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad, India
Sep 2001 — Dec 2006
School vision screening
L.V. Prasad Eye Institute — Chirec Public School programmes, Hyderabad, India
Oct 2002 — Feb 2003
Training and educating ophthalmic field workers
Community Eye Health project, Sightsavers International, Madhya Pradesh, India
Feb 2003
Community vision screening
L.V. Prasad Eye Institute — World Sight Day exhibition and village screening programmes
Jul 2002 — Oct 2002