Use the FORCE

Marika Martena and a double act of Ishvinder Bahra and Charis Hedges have won the CooperVision Future Ocular Research Creativity Event (FORCE) final awards for 2020 and 2021 respectively. Martena’s project investigated the effectiveness of soft contact lenses indicated for accommodative support on the symptoms of eyestrain and on the visual functions of young adults. Bahra and Hedges’ project researched optimisation of blink exercises on the Blinkful app.

A spokesperson for FORCE said that the event was an annual competition run by CooperVision that pitches students from universities across Europe against eachother.
The final of the awards was hosted virtually by CooperVision’s EMEA professional services manager Fabio Carta, who said: ‘I am so happy to know that there are people across Europe who have the skills to drive our profession forward through the 21^st Century.’