Mhairi is a Senior Lecturer in Vision Sciences and a practising optometrist, providing services to NHS and private patients through Glasgow Caledonian University's (GCU) Eye Clinic. Mhairi graduated from GCU with a BSc (Hons) in Optometry in 2002. After completing her pre-registration year, which was undertaken in the Eye Clinic at GCU, she worked for 6 months as a research assistant with the anterior eye research group at the University. She stared her PhD on the topic of myopia and accommodation in 2004 and subsequently undertook a post-doctoral position researching shape and motion perception in 2007. In 2008, Mhairi was appointed as a Lecturer and was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2012.
Mhairi is Year Tutor for the 3rd year Optometry Students and currently teaches topics relating to communication, ocular disease and ocular therapeutics. Her main research interests are in ocular motor function, accommodation and myopia. She was awarded a College of Optometrists Research Fellowship Award in 2008 and in the Neil Charman Medal for Outstanding Research as part of the College of Optometrists Research Excellence Awards 2011. Mhairi is trained as an Independent Prescribing Optometrist and is an examiner for the College of Optometrists.
