Marianne is an early career researcher and orthoptist. Marianne worked in the UK National Health Service and later trained in clinical research. Marianne moved to the University of Melbourne in 2020 to work as a Clinical Vision Research Fellow, between the Department of Optometry and Vision Sciences, and the Australian College of Optometry's National Vision Research Institute. Marianne now works at the National Centre for Healthy Ageing, a collaboration between Monash University and Peninsula Health. Marianne's pioneering dementia research has been funded by the UK Royal Society of Medicine, Fight for Sight (the UK's leading sight loss research charity) and the Dementia Australia Research Foundation. Her research has been guided at each stage by people living with dementia and carers.