Senior Research Fellow
College of Nursing and Health Sciences
Dr Jyoti Khadka is an optometrist by training. He worked in the Flinders Optometry space for seven years as an academic researcher before moving on to healthy ageing, health economics, health services and aged care research. He was awarded a PhD at Cardiff University in the UK, followed by a Post-doctoral fellowship at Flinders University. His main areas of research interests are in healthy ageing, patient-reported outcomes, frailty, quality of life and the application of modern psychometric methods, including item response theory (IRT) and Rasch analysis, to develop, validate and implement quality of life instruments. His other research interests include exploring ways to improve the quality of both preference and non-preference based instruments to measure and value health and quality of life outcomes in children and adults for health economics evaluations across the health, aged care and social care sectors.
PhD (2010)
School of Optometry and Vision Sciences, Cardiff University, UK
Thesis title: Development of a Visual Ability Measuring Questionnaire for Children
MPhil (2007)
School of Optometry and Vision Sciences, Cardiff University, UK
Thesis title: Impact of Visual Impairment in Children
Bachelor of Optometry (2003)
Tribhuvan University, Nepal
Basic Clinical Skills (optometry)
MDS2000- Skills for Medical Scientists 2
PhD - MAY 2018
PhD - JAN 2019
PhD - JUN 2020
PhD - OCT 2020