Professor Robin Mackenzie

As a member of the EU funded FET Flagship Initiative Robot Companions for Citizens Ethics and Society Working Group, I am investigating the ethical and legal implications of the creation of sentient robots as companions for citizens, particularly as the European population ages.

Member of NICE (National Institue for Health and Clinical Excellence) Guideline Development Group for Autism in Children and Young People. 

Editorial Work

• On editorial committee of Feminist Legal Studies

External Appointments

• Member of the EU funded FET Flagship Initiative Robot Companions for Citizens Ethics and Society Working Group, special responsibility for law and for ethical and legal aspects of human/robots social interaction 
  
• Member of the National Council for Palliative Care Ethics Committee 
  
• Member of London South East Research Ethics Committee 
  
• South East Research Ethics Committee 
  
• Robin has provided advice to Welcome Trust on Intellectual Property and Ethics issues and regularly reviews research grant applications for major funding bodies 
  
• East Kent University Hospital Research and Development Committee 
  
• Member of NICE (National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence) Guideline Development Group for Autism in Children and Young People 
  
• Past member of Family Justice Council Working Party on Domestic Violence and Kent Family Justice Council 
  
• Past member of National Institute for Healthcare and Clinical Excellence Long Term Conditions Topic Selection Panel
  

Forensic, ethical and medical aspects of neuroscience, regulation of health and bioscience technologies, robotics, neurodiversity and constructions of disability, decision-making capacity, body alteration, neurorehabilitation, end of life decision-making, psychoactive substance use, enhancement, ethical and legal relations between species, critical/cultural theory and feminist perspectives applied to all the above.