Selina Powell

Assistant editor

Selina Powell is assistant editor for Optometry Today, where she focuses on covering the latest innovations and research in eye health. She also profiles what optometrists get up to outside of the consulting room through her regular Secret life of the optometrist feature.

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

Milestone moments

OT takes a look at landmark events in optometry over the past six decades
- OT news and features
- Pulished 10 Jan 2020
- by Selina Powell
AOP Government NHS Business Multiple Independent OCT Feature
My strangest day…

Optometrists share memorable moments from practice
- OT news and features
- Pulished 09 Jan 2020
- by Selina Powell
Practitioner stories Sight test Customer service Patients Sight impairment Feature
A new focus

OT learns how providing sight tests and spectacles to the homeless is helping to change lives in Hampshire and Dorset
- OT news and features
- Pulished 03 Jan 2020
- by Selina Powell
Health services Sight test Primary care NHS Feature
Closing the distance

Is providing eye care by internet the silver bullet clinicians have been waiting for? OT learns how video consulting technology is changing the way healthcare is delivered in Scotland
- OT news and features
- Pulished 22 Dec 2019
- by Selina Powell
Technology NHS Universities Customer service Feature
Optometrist of the Year finalists

AOP Optometrist of the Year finalists speak to OT
- OT news and features
- Pulished 04 Dec 2019
- by Selina Powell
AOP AOP Awards Practice owners Business Business management Feature
Tackling bullying in the workplace

Senior guidance adviser at the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service, Tom Neil (pictured), talks to OT about what forms bullying can take and why it needs to be addressed
- OT news and features
- Pulished 23 Nov 2019
- by Selina Powell
Business management HR Business Feature
Testing vision on the road

OT speaks with Professor Joanne Wood, who founded Queensland University of Technology’s pioneering vision and driving research laboratory
- OT news and features
- Pulished 05 Nov 2019
- by Selina Powell
Research Driving Feature
Eyes on the road

OT investigates the crucial role that optometrists can play in keeping UK roads safe
- OT news and features
- Pulished 25 Oct 2019
- by Selina Powell
Clinical and regulatory Driving Government Sight test Campaign Feature
The Education Strategic Review in a nutshell

AOP policy director Tony Stafford (pictured) delves into what the GOC’s planned transformation of optical education means for practitioners
- OT news and features
- Pulished 02 Oct 2019
- by Selina Powell
AOP GOC Feature
In the family

How does education need to evolve to meet the needs of a changing profession? OT spoke to families with multiple generations working in optics for their take
- OT news and features
- Pulished 28 Sep 2019
- by Selina Powell
Practitioner stories Independent Universities Students Pre-regs Feature