Professor Scott Read
Faculty of Health,
School of Clinical Sciences,
Optometry and Vision Science
Biography
Scott Read is a Professor of Optometry and Vision Science. Following, the completion of his undergraduate optometry training in 1997, Scott worked in clinical optometry practice for 6 years, before returning to QUT to complete his PhD examining “Corneal topography and the morphology of the palpebral fissure”. Since the award of his PhD in 2006, Scott has been involved in a wide scope of research activities, with a feature of his work being the use of high resolution optical imaging techniques to broaden our understanding of the normal anatomical and physiological properties of the anterior and posterior eye and changes associated with human myopia. His work has also expanded understanding of the visual environmental factors that can impact upon eye growth and human myopia.Professor Read was awarded the “Zeiss Young Investigator Award in Myopia Research” for his distinguished contributions to the myopia research field in 2015. The primary focus of Scott’s current research is to better understand the ocular and environmental factors underlying human myopia. Since 2005, Professor Read has authored or co-authored over 200 research publications, including 2 scholarly book chapters, 126 peer-reviewed journal papers, 4 Editorials, and over 80 refereed conference abstracts. In his career to-date he has been successful in gaining substantial research funding, in excess of $3.2 million, from a variety of sources, including a prestigious 2012 Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA Fellowship), and numerous research projects with industry partners.
Scott has been a fellow of the American Academy of Optometry since 2012, and a member of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology since 2011. He has also been an Associate Editor and Editorial Board Member for Clinical and Experimental Optometry and is currently an Editorial Board Member and a Topical Associate Editor for Optometry and Vision Science (the official journal of the American Academy of Optometry). Professor Read has an excellent record of postgraduate student supervision, having supervised 17 PhD students and one MPhil student to completion, with 4 of his students being awarded QUT Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Awards.
Research highlights
Contact Lens and Visual Optics Laboratory
Personal details
Positions
- Professor
Faculty of Health,
School of Clinical Sciences,
Optometry and Vision Science
Research field
Ophthalmology and Optometry
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy (Queensland University of Technology)
Professional memberships and associations
- Editorial Board Member: Optometry and Vision Science (since 2016)
- Editorial Board Member: Clinical and Experimental Optometry (2011-2015)
- Fellow American Academy of Optometry since 2012
- Member Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology since 2011
- Member Optometry Australia since 1997
Teaching
Bachelor of Vision Science and Master of Optometry
Unit Coordinator and lecturer:
OPB550 - Diseases of the Eye 5
OPB650 - Diseases of the Eye 6
Lecturer:
OPB352- Ocular Anatomy and Physiology 3
OPB452 - Ocular Anatomy and Physiology 4
Research Supervision:
OPN164 - Research Methods in Optometry and Vision Science
OPN264 - Research Project
Master and Doctor of Philosophy
Supervision of Higher Degree Research candidates
Publications
Research outputs by year
- Read, S., Alonso-Caneiro, D., Hoseini-Yazdi, H., Lin, Y., Pham, T., Sy, R., Tran, A., Xu, Y., Zainudin, R., Jaiprakash, A., Tran, H. & Collins, M. (2023). Objective Measures of Gaze Behaviors and the Visual Environment during Near-Work Tasks in Young Adult Myopes and Emmetropes. Translational Vision Science and Technology, 12(11). https://eprints.qut.edu.au/244798
- Read, S., Hopkins, S., Black, A., Bentley, S., Scott, J. & Wood, J. (2023). Prevalence of vision conditions in children in a very remote Australian community. Clinical and Experimental Optometry, 106(2), 195–201. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/236715
- Vincent, S., Collins, M., Alonso-Caneiro, D., Read, S. & Fuss, J. (2019). Choroidal changes in human myopia: insights from optical coherence tomography imaging. Clinical and Experimental Optometry, 102(3), 270–285. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/128735
- Read, S., Pieterse, E., Alonso-Caneiro, D., Bormann, R., Hong, S., Lo, C., Richer, R., Syed, A. & Tran, L. (2018). Daily morning light therapy is associated with an increase in choroidal thickness in healthy young adults. Scientific Reports, 8. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/223887
- Read, S., Vincent, S., Tan, C., Ngo, C., Collins, M. & Saw, S. (2018). Patterns of daily outdoor light exposure in Australian and Singaporean children. Translational Vision Science and Technology, 7(3), 1–12. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/223718
- Read, S., Collins, M. & Vincent, S. (2015). Light exposure and eye growth in childhood. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science, 56(11), 6779–6787. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/93311
- Read, S., Alonso-Caneiro, D., Vincent, S. & Collins, M. (2015). Longitudinal changes in choroidal thickness and eye growth in childhood. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science, 56(5), 3103–3112. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/93313
- Read, S., Collins, M., Vincent, S. & Alonso-Caneiro, D. (2013). Choroidal thickness in myopic and nonmyopic children assessed with enhanced depth imaging optical coherence tomography. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science, 54(12), 7578–7586. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/67898
- Read, S., Collins, M., Woodman, E. & Cheong, S. (2010). Axial length changes during accommodation in myopes and emmetropes. Optometry and Vision Science, 87(9), 656–662. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/38234
- Read, S., Collins, M. & Sander, B. (2010). Human optical axial length and defocus. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science, 51(12), 6262–6269. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/38245
QUT ePrints
For more publications by Scott, explore their research in QUT ePrints (our digital repository).
Awards
- Type
- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2015
- Details
- The "Zeiss Young Investigator in Myopia Research Award" award recognizes young researchers for their distinguished research contribution in the field of myopia research, and is voted on by an international panel of senior myopia researchers. The award also involves the presentation of a keynote award lecture at the 15th International Myopia Conference (the Josh Wallman memorial lecture) held in Wenzhou, China in September 2015.
Selected research projects
- Title
- The Role of Outdoor Activity in Myopia Development
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- DE120101434
- Start year
- 2012
- Keywords
- Vision; Myopia; Refractive Error
Projects listed above are funded by Australian Competitive Grants. Projects funded from other sources are not listed due to confidentiality agreements.
Supervision
Current supervisions
- Using objective methods to understand the effects of near activities on myopia-genic visual environmental factors
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Steve Vincent - Investigation of the effects of different aspects of light exposure on the choroidal characteristics of the human eye
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Steve Vincent - Blood Flow Characterization Using Ocular Optical Coherence Tomography Angiography (OCTA) Images
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Zhiyong Li, Professor Michael Collins - Developing Deep Learning Image Analysis Methods for Mobile Eye Tracking
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Michael Collins
Completed supervisions (Doctorate)
- Automatic layer segmentation in retinal OCT imaging using deep learning methods (2023)
- Optical coherence elastography for the measurement of anterior segment biomechanical properties (2022)
- Optical coherence tomography angiography assessment of retinal and choroidal vasculature: Diurnal and longitudinal changes and refractive error (2022)
- The Eye's Response to Defocus and Diffuse Blur (2021)
- Vision and Ocular Characteristics of Australian Indigenous Children (2021)
- Anterior Scleral Changes With Accommodation and Convergence (2020)
- Ocular Characteristics of Non-Myopic and Myopic Children During Relaxed and Active Accommodation (2020)
- Spatial Characteristics of the Response of the Human Choroid to Imposed Defocus (2018)
- Temporal Dynamics of the Eye's Response to Blur (2018)