Dr Jane Macnaughton

Jane is an experienced optometrist with a career spread between working within the hospital eye service and academic teaching.

Having worked within the sight loss sector for over 30 years, her specialist area of clinical expertise is in working with children and adults with vision impairment and children with learning disabilities.

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Background

Jane worked initially with the hospital eye service at Moorfields Eye Hospital, London before joining City, University of London. In 2003, she launched CLEARVIEW Training, providing pre-registration, continuing education and training and CPD opportunities for the optical sector.

Jane continues to work at University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust where she works children and young adults with learning disabilities and patients with vision impairment.

Jane is an experienced Examiner for the College of Optometrists' Scheme for Registration.

Jane has published two successful textbooks for low vision practitioners and vision rehabilitation specialists: Eye Essentials, Low Vision Assessment (2005), and The Practical Management of Visual Impairment (2018).

Jane joined the staff at ARU in 2019 as a Senior Lecturer and is a member of the Vision and Hearing Sciences Research Group.

In 2024, Jane was named as the Eye Care Professional of the Year by the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) at the RNIB’s See Differently Awards, which celebrate outstanding work to assist people with sight loss.

Research interests

• Rehabilitation needs of adults with visual impairment.
• Referrals of paediatric patients from primary eyecare services into the Hospital Eye Service.

Areas of research supervision

Jane is currently supervising the following PhDs:

• Rukaiya Anwar, Writing: a key unmet rehabilitation need for older adults with acquired visual loss? Funded by the College of Optometrists (second supervisor).
• Andrew Miller, Assessing the costs and benefits of innovative low vision aids. Funded by the Macular Society (second supervisor).

Teaching

• BOptom (Hons) Optometry
• MOptom Optometry (Integrated)
• Ophthalmic Dispensing FdSc (Registerable Award)
• BSc Ophthalmic Dispensing (Registerable Award)

Qualifications

• PhD, Anglia Ruskin University
• Fellow, Advance HE
• PG Cert (HE), Anglia Ruskin University
• FCOptom: Fellowship, College of Optometrists
• Professional Certificate in Low Vision, The College of Optometrists
• BSc (Hons) Optometry; City, University of London
• BSc Anatomy; University of Aberdeen

Memberships, editorial boards

• Fellow, College of Optometrists
• Member, Association of Optometrists
• Examiner, College of Optometrists
• College of Optometrists' Editing and Writing Group for the Scheme for Registration
• Registration & Professional Standards Committee, Rehabilitation Workers' Professional Network
• Trustee, The Benevolent Fund of the College of Optometrists & the Association of Optometrists
• General Optical Council CPD Reviewer
• College of Optometrists' representative on the Vision UK Early Intervention and Enablement Committee 2017-2020
• College of Optometrists Council representing East Midlands Region, 2007-2019
• General Optical Council Hearings Panel Member 2018-2019
• General Optical Council CET Approver 2005-2019

Selected recent publications

Miller, A., Crossland, M.D., Macnaughton, J. and Latham, K., (2023). Are wearable electronic vision enhancement systems (wEVES) beneficial for people with age‐related macular degeneration? A scoping review. Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics.

Latham, K. and Macnaughton, J. (2022) 'Is patient identification of ‘comfortable’ print size a useful clinical parameter for low vision reading assessment?', Ophthalmic & Physiological Optics, 42(3), pp. 482-490.

Macnaughton, J., Vianya-Estopa, M. and Latham, K. (2022) 'Change in rehabilitation needs and activity limitations over time of adults with acquired visual impairment following entry to a low vision rehabilitation service in England', Ophthalmic & Physiological Optics, 42(3), pp. 491-503.

Macnaughton, J., Latham, K. and Vianya-Estopa, M. (2019) 'Rehabilitation needs and activity limitations of adults with a visual impairment entering a low vision rehabilitation service in England', Ophthalmic & Physiological Optics, 39, pp. 113-126.

Macnaughton, J., Latham, K. and Vianya-Estopa, M. (2019) Changes in rehabilitation needs of adults with acquired visual impairment following entry to a low vision rehabilitation service in England (presentation). ESLRR, Manchester, 2019.

Macnaughton, J. (2018) The Practical Management of Visual Impairment. Melton Mowbray: CLEARVIEW Training.

Macnaughton, J., Latham, K. and Vianya-Estopa, M. (2018) Principal difficulties facing patients with acquired vision loss (poster). Optometry Tomorrow, The College of Optometrists, 2018.

Macnaughton, J., Latham, K. and Vianya-Estopa, M. (2018) Activity limitations and rehabilitation needs of visually impaired adults entering low vision rehabilitation in England (presentation). BCOVS, Cambridge, 2018.

Macnaughton, J. and Latham, K. (2017) 'Assessment of central visual functions in patients with low vision: a review of commonly used tests and strategies', Optometry in Practice, 18(2), pp. 63-72.

Latham, K. and Macnaughton, J. (2017) 'Low-vision rehabilitation needs of visually impaired people', Optometry in Practice 18(2), pp. 103-9.

Macnaughton, J. and Latham, K. (2017) Priority rehabilitation needs on referral to visual impairment services in Leicestershire, England (poster). Vision 2017, The Hague, 2017.

Recent presentations and conferences

25th Nottingham Eye Symposium and Research meeting 2023: Rehabilitation in Visual Impairment - challenges and opportunities

Janet Silver Memorial Lecture, Hospital and Speciality Optometrists Conference 2023: 30 years on from the urban low vision clinic – the changing habits of low vision practitioners