Dr David Allen is Head of Research at Incept Labs and a Senior Research Audiologist at the National Acoustic Laboratories. His current research explores the ways in which education can meet the needs of the modern world, the use of technology to enhance access to effective, patient-centred hearing healthcare, and the use of psychometrically robust measures of patient, student, and educator experiences and attributes.

He taught Audiology and mixed research methods as a casual academic at the University of Queensland while completing his PhD through the HEARing CRC, studying the nature of Patient- and Family-Centred Care in the hearing habilitation of emerging adults with hearing loss.

Dr Allen was an invited peer reviewer for the 2021 NHMRC Synergy Grants.