Robin trained initially as a Dental Technologist at The Eastman Dental Institute London. Robin gained advanced certification as a Maxillofacial Technologist and Prosthetist whilst at Addenbrooke’s Hospital Cambridge. In 1973 he was appointed as a Technical Officer at the Department of Health progressing to the role of Northern Regional Manager of Ocular Prosthetic Services.
n 1982 Robin was appointed as Principal Ocularist at Manchester Royal Eye Hospital where he set up and ran the Department of Ocular Prosthetics until 2018. He trained a number of ocularists during his years at the hospital. He also opened a private practice in Manchester in 1982 extending it to Dublin in 1996 and to Durham in 2006.
Robin has published a number of papers and has lectured internationally in the field of ocular prosthetics and he mentors young ocularists abroad.
Robin is a founder member of both the Association of European Ocularists and the Association of British Ocularists. He is a Diplomate of the American Society of Ocularists.
