Jonathan Jackson

Jonathan Jackson is Director of the Northern Ireland Clinical Research Network, United Kingdom. He graduated in optometry with first-class honours from Glasgow College of Technology in 1981 and earned a PhD in corneal physiology from Queen's University Belfast in 1993. Prof. Jackson was Northern Ireland's first hospital-based optometrist and established the Hospital Optometry Department within ophthalmology at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast, which he went on to lead. From 2011 to 2014 he headed clinical optometry services at the Australian College of Optometry in Melbourne. His research focuses on visual disability, corneal disease, blindness and low vision, and his clinical interests include contact lenses and paediatric low vision. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Optometry and the British Contact Lens Association, was appointed adjunct professor in optometry at the Dublin Institute of Technology in 2018, and received Life Fellowship of the College of Optometrists in 2023.