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...

Dr David Squirrell, ophthalmologist and researcher based in Auckland, New Zealand and co-founder of Toku Eyes, about his team’s journey towards an AI-assisted diabetic retinopathy screening. By 2040, it is estimated that 224 million people worldwide will have some...

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...

Each year the University participates in Raising the Bar, an international event in which universities give back to their communities by offering free talks in local bars on a wide range of topics. On 20 April 2021 Professor Steven Dakin was one of two presenters from...

During late 2020 and the beginning of 2021, staff movements have included: Evellen Powell replacing Rowena Knight-Brown as GSC, with the significant responsibility of supporting Steven as Head of School, and supporting the school’s operations across the board Jane...

Tēnā koutou katoa Welcome to the School of Optometry and Vision Science (SOVS) blog. At SOVS we train New Zealand’s next generation of optometrists, preparing them to provide clinical care of the highest standard using innovative teaching that is informed by our own...

Professional Teaching Fellow Kerry Atkinson is the recipient of a 2020 Dennis Pickup Clinical Educator Award.

Professional Teaching Fellow Jaymie Rogers is one of only two recipients in 2020 awarded the distinguished University of Auckland Senior Health Research Scholarship.

Associate Professor Jacqueline Ramke has been awarded an Emerging Researcher First Grant from the Health Research Council (HRC).

SOVS Head of School, Professor Steven Dakin, discussed how New Zealand has an issue with eye health inequity.

Dr Ehsan Vaghefi received Science for Technological Innovation (SfTI) funding in 2019, to investigate the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to prevent diabetes retinopathy (loss of vision) for diabetes sufferers in New Zealand.

For the past 10 years SOVS and the NZ National Eye Centre has carried out research into Ocular Prosthetics.