Select Page
Marsden Success

Marsden Success

At the end of 2018 a group of SOVS researchers lead by Steven Dakin was successful in securing an award from the Marsden Fund to support a research project entitled ‘The cortical limit on visual acuity’. The value of this prestigious award from the New Zealand Royal...
Lectures by Professor Michael Kalloniatis

Lectures by Professor Michael Kalloniatis

We were fortunate to have Professor Michael Kalloniatis, Director of the Centre for Eye Health at the University of New South Wales and former Head of (the then) Department of Optometry and Vision Science, visiting to deliver two lectures in January 2019. Professor...
Staff Retreats 2019

Staff Retreats 2019

Writers’ retreat On 29 and 30 January 2019, a writers’ retreat was held at Bella Rakha in Oratia for academic staff. Staff spent the bulk of their time working on writing exercises with some time for getting together for informal discussions about the particular...
SOVS Conference 16 June 2019

SOVS Conference 16 June 2019

Save the date The School of Optometry and Vision Science’s annual conference will be held on Sunday 16 June 2019. Feedback from previous conferences has included requests for more interactive workshops, so this year’s programme includes three half hour talks on OCT-A,...

SOVS Newsletter – February 2019

Dear Colleagues Welcome to the first issue of the SOVS newsletter for 2019. It’s great to be back in Auckland, seeing familiar and new faces at the school. A big thanks to John Phillips who did a sterling job as acting Head of School and to everyone else who stepped...