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Dakin lab site launch
Professor Steven Dakin’s new and improved lab site https://www.clinicalvision.org/ was recently launched. The lab team includes Dr Catherine Morgan, recent PhD graduate Dr Soheil Doustkouhi, and current PhD candidates Selassie Tagoh, Aryaman Taore, and Tony Han. ...
Robert Maher Award 2021
Kristine Hammond has been awarded the prestigious Robert Maher Award for 2021 at the ADONZ (Dispensing Opticians Association) conference. Kristine entered the field of optics in 1993 and gained experience as a branch manager and area manager, completing her Advanced...
Marsden Fund award for eye movement project
Dr Phil Turnbull was awarded $360,000 in the recently announced prestigious Marsden Fund awards for his project Eye movements in three dimensions. Abstract: To track a moving object, the eyes need a remarkable level of coordination. Objects moving sideways or...
Staffing updates
The last few weeks have seen a few changes including: * PhD candidate Jasmine Zoest announced the timely arrival of her second child, Isla Low Zoest, on the 3rd of November, just 8 minutes past her due date apparently! All are doing well at home. * Alyssa Lie...
End of year message from Head of School
Final blog of another extraordinary year and it only remains for me to thank everyone one more time for their outstanding work in 2021. It’s important we recognise that the singular achievement of our small team delivering teaching and research - and the professional...
U21 Health Science Group challenge
Recently students from the University of Auckland and four other universities – the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom, the University of Hong Kong, and the University of Melbourne and Queensland in Australia – took part in a challenge from the Universitas...
Funded PhD in data infrastructure available now
A fully-funded PhD in the area of ‘Data infrastructure for eye health in Aotearoa New Zealand’ is available for suitably qualified candidates to apply for now. The PhD will be co-supervised by Associate Professor Jacqueline Ramke and Dr Katrina Poppe at the Faculty of...
Staffing update – 3rd quarter
In July 2021 we said farewell to Jane Williams, who filled the role of Group Services Administrator (GSA) with aplomb and was the first staff member to say goodbye by writing and performing an original song. Taylar Henwood joined us as a temporary GSA while...
Staff news
Marvin Wu is moving into a new and exciting position as Research Programme Manager with the Liggins Institute from 12 July. Marvin came to SOVS early in 2020, shortly before the Level 4 Covid-19 lockdown, and worked hard to assist researchers in the school with all...
Te Whe visit 2021
Photo: Kaiāwhina Renata Watene speaks with rangatahi about optometry as a career The annual Te Whe programme took place in June this year. The event is aimed at Year 11 Māori rangatahi and is part of the faculty’s Vision 20:20 initiatives to raise students’...
Graduation
Tuesday 1 June 2021 was a very special day for our Part V BOptom Class of 2020: after a somewhat disrupted year, graduands finally were able to come together to celebrate their achievements with fellow classmates, family and SOVS staff at a pre-graduation function...
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, Wales,...