<sod>Mackinnon published over 40 academic papers,<ref name=ODNB /> primarily on [[parasitic]] species of protozoa (especially [[flagellates]] and [[sporozoa]]).<ref name=Nature/> More of her work was given verbally, through broadcast talks for schools<ref name=Nature/> and numerous lectures, apparently never repeating a lecture in 30 years of teaching.<ref name=ODNB /> These included lectures on the diseases spread by flies,<ref>{{cite news|title=Flies as Disease-Carriers|url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000164/19120307/058/0004|accessdate=20 March 2016|publisher=The Courier|date=7 March 1912|page=4}}</ref> and how good hygiene and the prevention of flies breeding could stop [[typhoid]].<ref>{{cite news|title=London doctor on fly dangers|url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000325/19230108/004/0003|accessdate=20 March 2016|publisher=The Citizen|date=8 January 1923}}</ref> She also set up a research centre in protozoology, the only non-medical protozoological research centre in Britain.<ref name=Nature/><eod>
<sod>Mackinnon published over 40 academic papers,<ref name=ODNB /> primarily on [[parasitic]] species of protozoa (especially [[flagellates]] and [[sporozoa]]).<ref name=Nature/> More of her work was given verbally, through broadcast talks for schools<ref name=Nature/> and numerous lectures, with a reputation that she never repeating a lecture in 30 years of teaching.<ref name=ODNB /> These included lectures on the diseases spread by flies,<ref>{{cite news|title=Flies as Disease-Carriers|url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000164/19120307/058/0004|accessdate=20 March 2016|publisher=The Courier|date=7 March 1912|page=4}}</ref> and how good hygiene and the prevention of flies breeding could stop [[typhoid]].<ref>{{cite news|title=London doctor on fly dangers|url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000325/19230108/004/0003|accessdate=20 March 2016|publisher=The Citizen|date=8 January 1923}}</ref> She also set up a research centre in protozoology, the only non-medical protozoological research centre in Britain.<ref name=Nature/><eod>