Selina Powell

Features Editor

Selina Powell is the features editor of Optometry Today (OT), where she writes in-depth features for the print journal and is responsible for the development of supplements in collaboration with commercial partners. Selina also covers eye health research for OT, keeping practitioners up to date with the latest developments through the Science & vision section of the website and the clinical round-up in print. She talks to optometrists about their pursuits outside of the testing room for OT’s regular Secret life article, while her My vision feature showcases the experiences of people with conditions that affect their sight.

Selina worked as a journalist for weekly and daily newspapers in New Zealand before moving to the UK in 2016.

More articles by Selina Powell

Myopia Q&A: Nicola Logan, Paul Chamberlain and Krupa Patel

OT explores what the latest research on myopia management contact lenses means for optometrists working in practice
- 9 min read
- Research
- 1
Children Myopia Treatment
”An invisible assistant”: smart contact lens creates augmented reality

The chief executive of Mojo Vision has described his experience wearing a prototype smart contact lens with a 0.5mm LED display
- Technology
Navigating the digital High Street

The latest version of the Opticians Act was passed in the same year Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. Is it time for a reboot?
- Blogs
GOC Sight test Government Spectacles
Lifetime Achievement Award 2022

Trevor Warburton has been named the recipient of the AOP Lifetime Achievement Award 2022
- Practitioner stories
GOS Extended services Feature
- Sponsored by:
Practice team guide
Keeping in contact

Johnson & Johnson Vision’s Dr Rachel Hiscox on why a cohesive practice team is key in providing excellent contact lens care
- Business management
Business Customer service Coronavirus
- Sponsored by:
Exploring the effects of multifocal contact lenses in hyperopes

UK researchers have examined the potential of contact lenses to accelerate axial growth in farsighted children
- Research
Children
Online contact lens seller to pay $3.5 million following Federal Trade Commission charges

The company that owns Hubble lenses will pay penalties and redress in the largest amount to date involving the Contact Lens Rule
- Contact lenses
- 1
Legislation Professional conduct
Professor James Wolffsohn named ‘world expert’ in contact lenses

Algorithms used by Expertscape placed the Aston University academic in the top 0.1% of scholars writing about contact lenses
- Research
Universities
Research explores how spectacles and contact lenses affect the experience of mask wearing

A new study has compared how different forms of refractive correction affect the quality of life of face mask wearers
- Research
Coronavirus
MiSight: myopia control gains retained one year after treatment cessation

CooperVision has published seven-year findings from its MiSight 1 day clinical trial
- Research
Children Myopia

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