Lecturer

Email: patricia.mordaunt@TUDublin.ie

Tel: (01) 220 5731

Patricia Mordaunt is a lecturer on the BSc Optometry and BSc Ophthalmic Dispensing programmes at TU Dublin. She is also Co-programme chair and Practice education coordinator for the BSc Ophthalmic Dispensing Programme. Patricia is a member of TU Dublin’s Sciences & Health Faculty Board. Faculty Boards have responsibility for supporting and monitoring the implementation of University academic policies, the Education Model and the Quality Framework across the Schools and Programmes within the Faculty. 

 

Modules Currently Teaching on

• Ophthalmic Lenses and Dispensing (TU871 & TU761 year 1)
• Optical Dispensing (TU871 & TU761 year 2)
• Visual Science (TU761 Year 1)
• Primary Care Clinic (TU871 year 3)

Brief Biography

Awarded the Diploma in Ophthalmic Dispensing by the Association of British Dispensing Opticians in 1999. Worked in private practice as a Dispensing Optician and Practice Manager in Ireland between 1999 and 2006. Patricia began a part-time academic role in DIT in 2001, and worked in the National Optometry Centre from 2006 until 2016 when she was appointed a full-time lecturer.

 Qualifications

• 2020 MSc in Applied eLearning

• 2018  PG Dip Third Level Learning and Teaching

• 2000  Entitlement to fit contact lenses

• 1999  Diploma in Dispensing Optics (ABDO)

• 1994  National Diploma in Business Studies (Export law)

Professional Affiliations

• Fellow of the Irish Association of Dispensing Opticians

• Member of the Association of British Dispensing Opticians
• International Opticians Association

• Registered with Optical Registration Board, (CORU), Ireland
• Registered with General Optical Council, UK.

Other Work

• Appointed as Education Advisor to CORU () to review the framework document ‘Criteria and Standards of Proficiency for( Dispensing Opticians) Education and Training Programmes 2014

• Member of Project Team – Irish Aid  Programme of Strategic Cooperation Mozambique Project

• Member of the Education Committee of The Opticians Board of Ireland 2006 to 2010

• President of the Irish Association of Dispensing Opticians 2004-2006

• Volunteer with Opening Eyes (Ireland) and worked on vision screening programme as part of the Special Olympics ‘Healthy Athlete’ programme World Games 2003.
  
  
• Member of Vision Aid Overseas- a charity dedicated to helping people in the developing world whose lives are blighted by poor eyesight, particularly where spectacles can help. It works by sending abroad teams of volunteer optometrists and dispensing opticians who set up clinics, screen large number of patients and provide appropriate spectacles.
  
  
• Member of VAO Dispensing Forum
  
  
• Experience with Vision Aid Overseas includes 4 overseas projects
  • Team member: Ethiopia, September 2005
  • Team member: Ethiopia, February 2007
  • Assistant Team Leader:  Burkina Faso, December 2007
  • Assistant Team Leader : Burkina Faso, December 2008

Examples of CPD Lectures Presented

• Reflective Practice ABDO CPD Webinar 2019
• Reflective Practice IADO CPD Portlaoise 2019
• Dispensing in High Myopia AOI Tullamore 2007
• Free Form Technology AOI Regional CPD event Galway 2007
• Progressive Lens Technology AOI Regional CPD event Limerick August 2005

 

Examples of CPD Workshops Presented

• Checking and Dispensing Prisms EEAO Dublin 2012
• Trouble Shooting for Progressive Addition Lenses AOI Carlow 2015
• Checking and Dispensing Prisms EEAO Dublin 2012
• Dispensing in high Hypermetropia AOI Tullamore February 2006

 

Research Funding/Grants Received

2008 Irish Aid / HEA Grant: Mozambique Eyecare Project 2008 - 2013" - €2.41million

Dr. James Loughman (PI), Ms Eva Doyle, Dr. Peter Davison, Ms. Patricia Mordaunt, Prof Kovin Naidoo