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Research expertise within the Health, Society, People and Place theme

Vision science & clinical optometry

  • Visual processing and perception (including psychophysics & electrophysiology)
  • Visual development and myopia
  • Ocular imaging
  • Age-related eye disease including assessment, diagnostics and monitoring
  • Clinical optometry including service delivery/evaluation, contact lenses and refraction
  • Vision-related effects on quality of life and daily activities

For more information about the above areas of research expertise contact Dr Jonathan Denniss.

The past informing the present and future: Archaeological and Forensic Sciences

  • Understanding past people, their health, societies, inequalities, and environments – learning lessons to inform life today
  • Latest visualisation and forensic techniques to capture, image, analyse and disseminate human activity from the past and present
  • Using heritage and archaeology for resilience and wellbeing today
  • Ensuring the past has a tangible value for communities today

For more information about the above areas of research expertise contact Dr Karina Croucher.

Medicines optimisation

  • Safe and optimal use of medicines
  • Ageing, frailty and medicines use
  • Patient safety across care settings and systems
  • Working with patients and healthcare teams to codesign interventions and care pathways
  • Implementation and uptake of new medicines and healthcare technologies
  • Self-management of medicines by patients and carers

For more information about the above areas of research expertise contact Dr Beth Fylan.

Education innovation, research and development

  • Undergraduate and postgraduate student education; how students learn
  • Education of healthcare professionals, including interprofessional education, work-based placements, professionalism and professional identity
  • Education of healthcare service users

For more information about the above areas of research expertise contact Dr Samantha McLean.