Mark Haggard

Professor Mark Haggard CBE was appointed chairman of Deafness Research, the national media research charity for deaf and hard of hearing people in 2010. He served as a trustee and chief research advisor for the charity for over 15 years, before becoming an honorary vice-president in 2002.  

Mark was the founding director of the Medical Research Council’s Institute of Hearing Research in Nottingham where he worked for 25 years before moving to Cambridge in 2002 to conduct his own research. He remains at Cambridge in a professional capacity studying causes, consequences and treatments for otitis media (the most common cause of hearing impairment), as well as surgical operations in childhood.

He has been visiting fellow at Haskins Laboratories, New York, fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and professor of psychology at Queen’s University Belfast.  

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