Career development

Insight into the career options that are available within optics from those who have been there and done it

How I got here
“Academia has created opportunities that I never thought I'd have”

Rupal Lovell-Patel, academic lead for vision sciences at the University of Central Lancashire, on her beginnings in Kenya and launching a new eye care clinic with a dual purpose
- 7 min read
- Career development
Students Primary care Feature
The discussion
The class of ‘09

OT speaks to Susan Bowers, Ross Henderson and Martin Hood, three of the first class of optometrists to gain their independent prescribing qualification when it was introduced 12 years ago
- 14 min read
- Career development
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Primary care Treatment Patients Feature
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“All of these cases have really encouraged me to explore hospital optometry as a career”

City, University of London optometry student, Twinkle Bhuva, explains how a trip to India confirmed her interest in hospital optometry as a career
- 5 min read
- Career development
Primary care Children Myopia Hospital optometrists Students Feature
What I have learned
“We can introduce these things in a more uniform way”

AOP Councillors Dr Julie-Anne Little and Kevin Wallace discuss what NHS England can learn from optometry in Northern Ireland and Scotland
- Career development
Primary care Feature