Teaching Experience
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Postgraduate Diploma in Independent Prescribing for Optometrists (PgD IP, Level 11) |
2026-present: Programme Leader 2023-2025: Programme Development Lead |
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Independent Prescribing for Optometrists Course (CPD, Level 11) |
2019-2023: Programme Leader |
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Clinical Ophthalmology (Level 9): |
2008-present: Module leader |
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Introductory Ocular Disease (Level 8): |
2008-2018: Module leader |
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Professional Regulation in eyecare (Level 10): |
2019-present: Module tutor |
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Clinical Practice and communication (Level 8) |
2008-2023: Module tutor |
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Chronic complications of diabetes (Level 11): |
2015-present: Module tutor |
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Project/Dissertation (Level 10, Level 11): |
2008-present: Module tutor |
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Independent prescribing and systemic disease (Level 11): |
2011-present: Module tutor / Module leader |
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Introduction to Primary Care Management (Level 11): |
2009-present: Module tutor |
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Glaucoma and Advanced Primary Care Management (Level 11): |
2009-present: Module tutor |
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Myopia Management (Level 11): |
2022-present: Module tutor |
Current Research and Scholarly Activities, Advanced/Professional Practice
- Research interests include the investigation of the roles of the accommodation response, of pupil size, of choroidal thickness and of light in myopia, evaluation of the effectiveness of myopia management treatments, the risk of visual impairment from myopia and the cost-effectiveness of myopia management interventions.
- Member of the Myopia Consortium UK.
- Launched the Myopia Management Clinic at the Vision Centre in 2016 and been part of the staffing team since
- Awarded the Neil Charman Medal for Outstanding Research as part of the College of Optometrists Research Excellence Awards in 2011
- Awarded a College of Optometrists Research Fellowship Award in 2008
- Reviewer for College of Optometrists Postgraduate Scholarship and Research Fellowship awards
- Reviewer for: Scandanavian Journal of Optometry and Vision Science; Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics; Optometry and Vision Science; Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science
- Multiple PhD supervisions/examinations
Link to bio and research profile: https://www.gcu.ac.uk/staff/mhairiday