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Associate Professor
Andrew Carkeet
Faculty of Health,
School of Clinical Sciences,
Optometry and Vision Science
Biography
BackgroundAndrew Carkeet is a lecturer in the School of Optometry at QUT. In the early 1980s, after completing 2 years of his Bachelor of Arts degree dabbling in Philosophy, English Drama, and Psychology, he decided that a health profession would be a more suitable career and switched to studying Optometry full-time at QIT and Arts part-time at the University of Queensland.
Qualifications
- 1987: Bachelor of Applied Science (Optometry)
- 1987: Bachelor of Arts (Psychology)
- Master of Science in Physiological Optics (University of Houston), specialising in vernier acuity versus resolution acuity in children
- 1995: PhD in visual temporal order discrimination (QUT)
Professional experience
- Lecturer at the University of Auckland
- 1998: Lecturer (Optometry), Singapore Polytechnic
- 2000-2002: Singapore Eye Research Institute, studying epidemiologies of myopia, optical quality after refractive surgery and aberrations, optical quality and myopia in children.
Dr Carkeet has research publications in diverse areas, with interests in
- children's vision
- amblyopia
- optical quality
- sports vision
- statistics of vision measurement.
Personal details
Positions
- Associate 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), 2020
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy (Queensland University of Technology)
Publications
Filter publications:
A complete list of publications is available at: https://www.qut.edu.au/about/our-people/academic-profiles/a.carkeet
Supervision
Current supervisions
- Crystalline lens characteristics of pre-myopic children
PhD, Mentoring Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr Rohan Hughes, Dr Emily Woodman - Improving psychophysical procedures in pre-school visual acuity measurements
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Associate Professor Shelley Hopkins - Modelling and characterisation of corneal subbasal immune cell dynamics: establishing a normative database and topographical comparisons
PhD, Mentoring Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr Luisa Holguin Colorado, Associate Professor Katie Edwards - The Influence of Scleral Contact Lens Parameters and Lens Fitting Characteristics upon Ocular Monochromatic Aberrations in Keratoconus
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor David Atchison, Professor Steve Vincent
Completed supervisions (Doctorate)
- Novel Application of a Commercial Optical Biometer: Effect of Refractive Error, Age, and Accommodation on Crystalline Lens Shape (2025)
- Optical coherence tomography angiography assessment of retinal and choroidal vasculature: Diurnal and longitudinal changes and refractive error (2022)
- Development and evaluation of optometrist-led referral pathways in Ampang, Malaysia (2016)
Completed supervisions (Masters by Research)
Supervision topics
The supervisions listed above are only a selection.