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Refractive Correction, Contact Lenses & Myopia

Research into refractive interventions, contact lens technologies and strategies for myopia and presbyopia.

  • Refractive surgery
  • LASIK
  • SMILE
  • PRK
  • Phakic lenses
  • Presbyopia
  • Myopia control
  • Advanced contact lenses
  • Visual performance
  • Comfort
  • Wettability
  • Contact lens–tear film interaction

The question

Which refractive and contact lens strategies deliver durable visual performance, comfort and control of refractive progression?

Why it matters

Myopia is rising globally and presbyopia affects everyone. The optical strategies chosen today determine visual quality across decades of life.

Our approach

Visual performance metrics, tear-film interaction studies and prospective follow-up of refractive and contact lens interventions.

Translational impact

Better selection criteria and outcome measures for refractive interventions and myopia-control strategies.

Technologies & methods

  • Visual & Optical Quality

    High-resolution aberrometry

    Wavefront characterisation of ocular and device-induced aberrations under controlled conditions.

  • Visual & Optical Quality

    Contrast sensitivity, light distortion & photic phenomena

    Psychophysical measurement of visual performance, halo and glare under photopic and mesopic conditions.

  • Ocular Surface

    Non-invasive tear-film analysis

    Interferometric and video-based assessment of tear-film stability and dynamics.

  • Ocular Imaging

    Corneal topography & tomography

    Scheimpflug and reflection-based mapping of corneal geometry, elevation and thickness.

People in this area

Projects

  • Completed

    Characterisation of Multifocal Rigid Gas Permeable Contact Lenses and Visual Performance Following Fitting

    Investigation of the optical and clinical characteristics of multifocal rigid gas permeable contact lenses and assessment of visual performance following lens fitting, contributing to optical strategies for presbyopia correction.

Selected publications

[PLACEHOLDER] Selected publications for this research area will be listed here from the shared publications database. No references have been invented.