Charlotte Codina

As professional lead for the specialist area of Orthoptics and Ophthalmolgy at The University of Sheffield, I have the privilege of overseeing several degree programmes and postgraduate research. We offer degrees in pre-registration Orthoptics, available through foundation and standrard routes; and postgraduate programmes in paediatric ophthalmology advanced practice (apprenticeship and standard) and in Vision and Strabismus. As such, we are developing eye-care practitioners within the UK and overseas, who positively impact patient lives and serve patients all across the UK and worldwide.

I qualified as an Orthoptist in 2003 and have practised at hospitals in the UK including Moorfields Eye Hospital, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust, Sheffield Childrens Hospital Trust in the UK and in the Kwazulu Natal region of South Africa. In 2008 I completed my PhD which explored the effects of profound congenital deafness on the visual system.

I began lecturing in 2008, becoming senior lecturer thereafter and enjoy teaching a broad range of topics for the across all our degree programmes and supervising a range of PhDs and postgraduate research within the UK and overseas.

My research interests include adaptations of and plasticity within the whole of the visual system from the cortex to the retina. My PhD explored the effects of profound congenital deafness and experience with British Sign Language on the visual system of children and adults. So far I have investigated visual plasticity in response to profound deafness, autism, ADHD and visual vertigo. I am particularly interested in the development of peripheral vision and the development and management of amblyopia.