Teaching
Teaching Interests
1. Vision Science and Ocular Cell Biology
Carl teaches modules on ocular anatomy, physiology, and cellular mechanisms of eye disease. Topics include glaucoma, retinal wound healing, and regenerative strategies.
2. Research Methods and Laboratory Skills
He delivers training in cell culture, imaging, and tissue engineering techniques, ensuring students gain hands-on experience in advanced research methods. He also teaches laboratory techniques for undergraduate biology and medical students.
3. Research and Scholarship
Carl teaches research and scholarship skills to medical students, helping them develop critical thinking and evidence-based practice.
4. Postgraduate Modules and Supervision
He runs postgraduate modules at MSc level (Clinical Sciences) and supervises research projects (MRes, PHD) in glaucoma pathobiology, trabecular meshwork models, retinal pigment epithelium biology, and biomaterials for ocular repair. He welcomes PhD applications in these areas.
5. Postgraduate teaching
He delivers lectures in stem cell biology, tissue engineering and regenerative medicine and ocular cell biology.
Post Graduate Teaching, Institute of Life Course and Medical Sciences
Administrative teaching roles:
• ILCaMS Education Committee
• ILCaMS Post Graduate Advisory Panel member
• ILCaMS representative on Faculty International PG committee.
• ILCaMS & DEVS peer observer of teaching lead.
• Chair & ILCaMS lead PGR/PDRA- teaching link committee
• ILCaMS Ethics panel
• Instigated Teaching connections Application working group. FHLS
Primary supervisor for several post graduate research projects (MRes, MSc, MPhil, PhD, MD)
MRes Clinical Sciences
- Lecturer: Bioengineering in Ophthalmology,
- Journal club
- Laboratory research projects supervisor
- Grant writing Assessment
MSc COVIS Anterior Segment Clinical Ophthalmology module lecturer
MSC COVIS Research project module lead
-lectures
-journal club
-assessment
LIFE700 MSc. Project supervisor
MSc in Organ transplantation. Academic project supervisor
Undergraduate Teaching
School of Medicine
MBChB year 1 and year 2 (Academic advisor, OSCE examiner),
Research and Scholarship year 2 seminars (3 groups), (Planning, delivery)
School of Health Sciences
BSc Hons Orthoptics
(Planning, lecture delivery and assessment)
School of Life Sciences
LIFE363 (Research projects, Planning, delivery, assessments)
LIFE227 Techniques in Cell Biology, Histology academic lead including lecture and Laboratory teaching.
LIFE107 Laboratory academic lead teaching 2021
LIFE204 Neurophysiology (Planning, lecture delivery and assessment)
School of Dentistry
Year 1 Dentistry CBL group facilitator from 2021/22
Modules for 2025-26
Advancing Ophthalmic Nursing Practice
Module code: HEAL493
Role: Teaching
Cells, Tissues, Clinic
Module code: LCMS703
Role: Module Co-ordinator
Endocrine and Neuro-physiology
Module code: LIFE204
Role: Teaching
Foundations of Ophthalmic Nursing Practice
Module code: HEAL492
Role: Teaching
ILCMS Research Project
Module code: LCMS701
Role: Module Co-ordinator
MSC RESEARCH PROJECT
Module code: LIFE703
Role: Teaching
OPHTHALMOLOGY 1
Module code: ORTH142
Role: Teaching
Techniques in Cell Biology
Module code: LIFE227
Role: Teaching
Supervised Theses
- Biomimicry of the Hierarchical Human Trabecular Meshwork Using Electrospinning
- Differentiation of Trabecular Meshwork Progenitor Cells
- INDUCED PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL DIFFERENTIATION INTO TRABECULAR MESHWORK CELLS
- INDUCED PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL DIFFERENTIATION INTO TRABECULAR MESHWORK CELLS
- THE ROLE OF B1 METHYLATION, PHYSIOLOGIC REPLICATION INDEPENDENT ENDOGENOUS DNA DOUBLE STRAND BREAKS (PHY-RIND-EDSB) AND LAMININ 511 E8 PROTEINS IN RAT SECOND DEGREE BURN WOUND HEALING
- Utilising glaucomatous extracellular matrix substrates and novel biomimetic 3D polymer scaffolds to study trabecular meshwork (TM) cells and TM progenitors.