Throughout the year of 2025, postgraduate optometry students: Sarah Bowden, Abby Douglas, Cassie Edwards, Lelearna Shelley, Ellyse Young and Jazlin Younger, collectively worked together on their research project which investigated how the eye accommodates to various blur conditions. All group members completed literature reviews and collaboratively prepared the design of the study protocol. After obtaining ethics approval for the study, group members collected data from repeated blur condition investigations with study participants, analysed the study data, prepared written research reports, and presented their research outcomes to an audience of fellow optometry students, optometry academics and optometry professionals.
The optometry student group was supervised by Professor Michael Collins, Professor Scott Read and Dr Hosein Hoseini-Yazdi from the Contact Lens and Visual Optics Laboratory, a research arm of the QUT Centre for Vision and Eye Research. The student group plan to continue collecting data over the 2025-2026 Summer months, with the intent of publishing their research data.
Each student group member was presented with a certificate award from President of the QLD & NT Optometrists Association of Australia, Ms Nancy Atkinson. – Congratulations Sarah, Abby, Cassie, Lelearna, Ellyse and Jazlin!