Responsibilities
Course coordinator and lecturer in the following bachelor courses:
2nd year: Optometry and social responsibility (OSAM2013)
3rd year: Optometric Rehabilitation and Visual Ergonomics (OSVE3013), Clinical Optometric Practice, Entrepreneurship and International Optometry (OVEI3015)
Ongoing projects:
Norwegian Blind Association - development of a vision health literacy questionnaire. A part of my PhD Better Vision - Better health, concerning vision and adult stroke survivors.
Project manager for EYE-FX, a competence and exchange project with Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology (MMUST), Kenya and Brien Holden Vision Insitute, South Africa. The project is supported with NOK 6 million by NOREC. New application sent 2025.
Project manager for InternAbroad, a collaborative project between USN and Brien Holden Vision Insitute, South Africa. The goal is to establish student exchanges and challenge entrepreneurship in optometry.
Optometry clinical practice in Madagascar and development of language and culture course for students.
Project team member KROSS, Competence in Rehabilitation on Sight and Stroke. Supported by the Norwegian Directorate of Health and the Extra Foundation; work on including vision tests as part of the patient course of a stroke patient.
Project team member NORVIS Network for improving visual rehabilitation and follow-up of stroke patients, as well as competence among health personnel.
Finalized projects.
Project in Moldova - Norway collaboration, establishment of an optometric education. Supported by SIU with NOK 6 million.
Responsible for re-accreditation of the Optometry Bachelor program. Accreditation must meet the requirements for a European diploma for optometrists.