Professor Steve Parrish

Visiting Professor

Academic and Professional Qualifications / Membership

2006 to date  Member Institution Engineering and Technology
2006 to date  Fellow Royal Society Medicine
2003 to date  Fellow Higher Education Academy
1990 to date   Liveryman Worshipful Company Spectacle Makers
1980 to date  Fellow College of Optometrists
1977 to date   Freeman Worshipful Company Spectacle Makers

Brief outline of Career History

2005 to date      Visiting Professor, City University London
2005 to date      Visiting Professor, Anglia Ruskin University
2002 to 2005     Professor & Head of Department of Optometry & Ophthalmic Dispensing, School of Applied Sciences, Anglia Ruskin University.
1999 to 2002     Visiting Professor, Staffordshire University.
1999 to date      Editor-in-Chief, Optometry in Practice.
1998 to 2005     Principal Lecturer and Professor of Clinical Vision Science, APU
1998 to 2006     Examinations Adviser, College of Optometrists.
1998 to date      Director, Innovative Optical Training Limited.
1990-2004         Practice visitor /mentor, College of Optometrists.
1986-1998         Consultant Optometrist, Dollond and Aitchison.
1995-1996         Visiting Principal Optometrist, Wolverhampton Eye Hospital.
1982-1986         Self-employed Optometrist.

Professional Activities outside the University

College of Optometrists Examiner
College of Optometrists Assessor
Association British Dispensing Opticians Principal Examiner
Expert Witness in Medico-legal cases
CET course provider to the profession