Robert MacKinnon

Dr Robert MacKinnon is a Senior Lecturer in Audiology and former Deputy Head of School for Psychology, Sports and Sensory Sciences. His research interests focus on music-induced and noise-induced hearing loss, vestibular pathologies and hearing screening (including remote healthcare).

Robert completed his undergraduate studies for his MA Hons (Cantab.) in Natural Sciences at the University of Cambridge and his PhD in Otorhinolaryngology at the University of Nottingham.

Robert trained clinically as a HCPC-registered Clinical Scientist in Audiology at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. This allows him to practice not only as an Audiologist but also in more complex clinics as a Clinical Scientist, with experience in paediatric, vestibular, complex adult, and single sided clinics among other specialist as well as routine clinics.

Robert is also a HCPC-registered Hearing Aid Dispenser.

Experience

  • –present
    Clinical Scientist and Senior Lecturer, Anglia Ruskin University

Education

  • 2018 
    University of Manchester, MSc
  • 2016 
    School of Clinical Medicine, University of Nottingham, PhD
  • 2010 
    University of Cambridge, MA Hons (Cantab.)

Publications

  • 2025
    Bamboo consumption and health outcomes: a systematic review and call to action, Advances in Bamboo Science

Professional Memberships

  • HCPC -Clinical Scientist
  • HCPC -Hearing Aid Dispenser

Contact Robert for

  • General
  • Media request
  • Speaking request
  • Consulting / Advising
  • Research collaboration
  • Research supervision