Selina Powell

Features Editor

Selina Powell is assistant editor for Optometry Today (OT), where she writes in-depth features for the print journal and covers the latest innovations and research in eye health.

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

Raising the bar: vision science takes a trip to the pub

Unlike many alehouse epiphanies, the ideas discussed at the Pint of Science festival (14-16 May) will still have merit the next morning
- Research
Events Sight impairment
Volcano erupts in Hawaii following prestigious optical conference

ARVO delegate Angharad Hobby told OT that the situation was calm on O'ahu Island after an eruption prompted evacuations on a neighbouring island
- Research
Events Education
Therapeutics Manchester: treatments for inherited retinal disease

"This is an exciting area because it gives patients hope that there may be something that can be done to stop them going blind or even to restore their vision"
- Research
Education Events Retina Treatment
Research in the spotlight

Delegates from across the UK discussed the latest developments in optics at the Essilor University and College Symposium
- Research
Events Universities Education
Young museum-goers ask the big questions

Scientists fielded queries from ‘Is the eye squishy?’ to ‘Why can’t we see UV light?’ at the Science of Sight exhibition in London
- Research
Sight impairment Genetics Events Education
The X factor

Essilor has launched its latest generation of varifocal lens, the Varilux X series, at an event in Manchester
- Eyewear and lenses
Events Business
RNIB hits eye notes at Glastonbury

The Royal National Institute of Blind People has been announced as the official health charity of this year’s Glastonbury Festival
- Charity
Events Campaign
An optometrist walks into a bar

Pub banter will be replaced with a myopia discussion in Birmingham next week as part of a festival that brings science to pubs
- Research
Myopia Events Education

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