Professor Arnold Wilkins
Emeritus Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Essex; Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge
independent expert reviewer
Emeritus professor of psychology whose research covers visual discomfort from flicker, patterns and lighting, photosensitive epilepsy and migraine.
- University of Sussex
- DPhil
- pages reviewed
- 2
- reviewing since
- 2026
About
Arnold Wilkins is an Emeritus Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Essex, where he was a professor from 1997 to 2015. Before that he was a scientist at the Medical Research Council’s Applied Psychology Unit from 1974 to 1997, after completing a DPhil at the University of Sussex in 1973.
His research covers visual discomfort from patterns, flicker and lighting, photosensitive epilepsy and migraine, color vision and the design of ophthalmic tints, and the design of text for children.
He is the author of Visual Stress (Oxford University Press, 1995) and Reading Through Colour (Wiley, 2003), and, with Bruce Evans, of Vision, Reading Difficulties and Visual Stress (Springer, 2022). His studies of flicker include the office-lighting trial and the phantom-array experiments cited in our article on screen flicker.
Pages reviewed on ScreenTest.Pro
The English text of this article: what it says about flicker, PWM dimming and the research, its practical advice, and its safety notes.
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Education
- DPhil, University of Sussex, 1973
Areas of expertise
Profiles elsewhere
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