Professor Shahina Pardhan appointed OBE
Visionary Trustee is named in the New Year Honours list 2025!
A huge congratulations to Professor Shahina Pardhan, Director of Anglia Ruskin University’s Vision and Eye Research Institute (VERI) and Visionary Trustee, who has been included in the King’s New Year’s honours list in recognition for her services to optometry and preventing blindness. She will receive the title of Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE).
Professor Shahina Pardhan holds up a framed award.
Professor Pardhan is Director of Vision and Eye Research Institute (VERI) at Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) and was appointed as the first female Professor of Optometry in the UK in 2001. You can read more about her work in the article Pioneering ARU vision professor appointed OBE – ARU.
Professor Shahina Pardhan, Director, VERI, ARU“I am surprised, humbled and profoundly honoured to receive this honour. My passion is to reduce the risk and impact of blindness. This honour only strengthens my commitment to continue with this work. Blindness due to eye diseases such as diabetic retinopathy is preventable if caught in time, and our work has made a difference to people’s lives not just in the UK but in other parts of the world. My sincere thanks to everyone who has worked with me over the years.”
2024 was a terrific year for Professor Pardhan who received three awards which you can read about below:
- Professor Shahina Pardhan is awarded Life Fellowship from the College of Optometrists, November 2024 – Visionary
- British Asian Women’s Award for Achievements in Education, June 2024 – Visionary
- Worshipful Company of Spectacle Makers Silver Medal, March 2024 – Visionary.
You can also hear Professor Pardhan speak about her research in Judging the Distance of Sounds on BBC In Touch Radio 4.
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