Shahina Pardhan is the Director of the Vision and Eye Research Unit and the Anglia Ruskin University School of Medicine.
[2] She received a scholarship from the College of Optometrists and began her graduate studies, earning a doctorate in 1989.
On her first day she was told that she "couldn’t go into the staff common room because secretaries weren’t allowed".
[8] She was an invited speaker at the Aspian Pacific Optometry Congree in Kuala Lumpur in 2015.
[9] She led a joint conference with Southern University of Science and Technology to discuss audio and visual impairment.