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Low Vision Day 2021

Low Vision Day 2021

Photo: Lacey Coulson leads a blindfolded Bailey Gavin around the Eye Clinic Part V BOptom students participated in the annual Low Vision day in March to increase knowledge of difficulties patients with vision impairments have. Students asked low vision volunteers...
Invited talk – Sam Schwarzkopf

Invited talk – Sam Schwarzkopf

In September 2020, Associate Professor Sam Schwarzkopf gave an invited talk entitled “Neural signatures of visual perception – successes, failures, and potential disasters” via Zoom at the Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre (CUBRIC) in Cardiff,...
Te Akoranga Kairangi course

Te Akoranga Kairangi course

Professor Alison Jones of the Faculty of Education and Social Work and Vikki Demant, a specialist kapa haka Kaiako in schools across Tāmaki Makaurau, have been teaching Te Akoranga Kairangi: an 8-week course which introduces participants to Māori language...
Grant awarded for National Eye Health Survey pilot study

Grant awarded for National Eye Health Survey pilot study

In November 2020 SOVS was the recipient of one of only four Seed Grants awarded by the Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences in 2020. The $50,000 grant will support a pilot study of the National Eye Health Survey (NEHS) to be conducted in 2021. The NEHS will provide...