Dr Graeme Kennedy
Senior Lecturer in Vision Sciences
Department of Vision Sciences
Graeme is a Senior Lecturer in Vision Sciences and a practising optometrist. Graeme graduated with a degree in Optometry from GCU in 1996 and, after completing a pre-registration training year, qualified as an optometrist in 1997.
After several years in private practice, Graeme returned to GCU to complete a PhD in visual psychophysics, a discipline that uses measures of performance in perceptual tasks to investigate the neural mechanisms involved in processing visual information. He subsequently spent 18 months as a Postdoctoral Researcher at Bradford University and returned again to GCU in 2008 to take up a post as Lecturer in Vision Sciences. He was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2015.
Graeme has an interest in using psychophysical methods to assess visual performance in certain clinical conditions (for example, myopia, glaucoma and macular disease). He served as Academic Clinical Lead in Vision Sciences from 2015-2018 and as Programme Lead for the undergraduate Optometry course from 2018-2022.
Graeme holds the College of Optometrists’ Diploma in Therapeutics (Independent Prescribing) and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. He serves as an Examiner for the College of Optometrists and as an Education Visiting Panel Member for the General Optical Council.