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Dr. Bruce Evans (Ph.D.)

Dr. Bruce Evans (Ph.D.)

Visiting Professor

Dr. Bruce Evans (Ph.D.)

  • Professor Bruce Evans is Director of Research at the Institute of Optometry and Visiting Professor at City University and London South Bank University. His main areas of research are children’s vision, dyslexia, orthoptics, contact lenses, and headaches including migraine. He has authored over 240 scientific and professional papers, five editions of books on binocular vision and two on dyslexia and vision, and has given more than 250 invited lectures.

Contact: : bjwe@bruce-evans.co.uk

 

 

  • Children’s vision
  • Dyslexia
  • Orthoptics
  • Contact lenses
  • Headaches including migraines

Segui-Crespo, M, Ronda-Perez, E, Yammouni, R, Arroyo, R, Evans, BJW (in press) Randomised controlled trial of an accommodative support lens designed for computer use. Ophthal Physiol Opt.

Evans, B.J.W., Parmar, K., Dickinson, C. (in press) Mallett unit or fully fusionable images for prisms against asthenopia? Reply. Journal of Optometry.

Shah, R., Edgar DF, Jessa Z, Yammouni R, Campbell P, Soteri K, Hobby, A., Khatoon, A., Beg, A., Harsum, S., Aggarwal, R., Evans BJW (in press) Referrals from community optometrists to the hospital eye services in Scotland and England. Eye (Lond) published online ahead of print. doi: 10.1038/s41433-021-01728-2

Parkins, D.J., Shah, B., Edgar, D.F., Benwell, M., Evans, B.J.W. (2021) Design and use of vignettes to investigate referral decision-making by optometrists. Journal of Optometry published online ahead of print. doi: 10.1016/j.optom.2020.09.004

Yammouni, R., Evans, B.J.W. (2021). Is reading rate in digital eyestrain influenced by binocular and accommodative anomalies? Journal of Optometry 14(3), 229-239. doi: 10.1016/j.optom.2020.08.006

Evans BJW, Edgar DF, Jessa Z, Yammouni R, Campbell P, Soteri K, Hobby, A., Khatoon, A., Beg, A., Harsum, S., Aggarwal, R., Shah, R. (2021) Referrals from community optometrists to the hospital eye services in England. Ophthal Physiol Opt. 41(2):365-77.

Grace, P., Edgar, D.F., Evans, B.J.W. (2021). Investigation of the efficacy of an online tool for improving the diagnosis of macular lesions imaged by ocular coherence tomography. Journal of Optometry 14(2), 206-214.

Yammouni, R., Evans, B.J.W. (2020) An investigation of low power convex lenses (adds) for eyestrain in the digital age (CLEDA). Journal of Optometry 13(3), 198-209. DOI: 10.1016/j.optom.2019.12.006

Levit, A., Benwell, M. and Evans, B.J.W. (2020). Randomised controlled trial of corneal vs. scleral rigid gas permeable contact lenses for keratoconus and other ectatic corneal disorders. Cont Lens Anterior Eye 43(6), 543-542.

Burns, D.H., Allen, P.M., Edgar, D.F., Evans, B.J.W. (2019) Sources of error in clinical measurement of the amplitude of accommodation. Journal of Optometry, 13(1), 3-14.

Parmar, K. R., Dickinson, C. & Evans, B. J. W. (2019) Does an iPad fixation disparity test give equivalent results to the Mallett near fixation disparity test? Journal of Optometry 12, 222-231.

Burns, D.H., Allen, P.M., Edgar, D.F., Evans, B.J.W. (2018) A review of depth of focus in measurement of the amplitude of accommodation. Vision, 2(3), 37-46.

Kang, P., Watt, K., Chau, T., Zhu, J., Evans, B.J.W., Swarbrick, H. (2018) The impact of orthokeratology lens wear on binocular vision and accommodation: a short-term prospective study. Contact Lens Anterior Eye, 41(6), 501-506.

Parkins, D.J., Benwell, M.J., Edgar, D.F., Evans, B.J.W. (2018) The relationship between unwarranted variation in optometric referrals and time since qualification. Ophthal. Physiol. Opt. 38(5), 550-561.

Shah, R., Edgar, D.F., Evans, B.J.W. (2018) The use of simulated and standardised patients in education, training and assessment. Optometry in Practice, 19 (1), 1-10.

Rowe, E., Evans, B.J.W. (2018) Are commonplace optometric activities evidence-based? Optometry in Practice. 18(4), 207-218.

Evans, B.J.W., Allen, P.M., Wilkins, A.J. (2017) A Delphi study to develop practical diagnostic guidelines for visual stress (pattern-related visual stress). Journal of Optometry. 10 (3), 161-168.

Evans, B.J.W. (2017) Letter to the editor. Coloured filters and reading: reasons for an open mind. Ophthal. Physiol. Opt. 37 (1), 105-107.

Evans, B.J.W. (2016) A matter of evidence. Optometry Today, 56, 32.

Conway, M. Suttle, C., Evans, B.J.W. (2016) Does gender influence colour choice in the treatment of visual stress? PLOS One. 11 (9) e0163326.

Books

Evans, B.J.W. (2021) Pickwell’s Binocular Vision Anomalies, Sixth Edition, Elsevier, Philadelphia.