Tuesday, 9 December 2025

Summing up 2025

We thank you all for your support over the pas year. We started the year with 22 students on our IOA Diploma and Masters in Environmental and Architectural Acoustics courses and 20 students on our short courses. Five journal papers were published three in collaboration with the University of Parma in Applied Acoustics, Heritage, and Acoustics. PhD candidate Alec Korchev won the IOA Early Career Award. Five conferences were attended in New Orleans, Malaga, Sao Paulo, Milton Keynes and Honolulu and outside of acoustics with the Hearing Conservation Association in Derby and the British Academy of Audiology in Telford. Links with the IOA were further strengthened with The Art of Being an Acoustician run in Manchester. LSBU hosted a full house for the one-day meeting on Air Source Heat Pumps, and a half-day meeting at the Royal Opera House on Musical Acoustics. Royal Academy of Music collaboration continued, as was the link with Guys and St Thomas's Hospital on hearing assessment with LSBU winning a MRC grant. Grants successfully completed include EPSRC UKAN+ and InnovateUK Paediatric Audiometer. We welcomed Dr Rodrigo Sanchez-Pizani another PhD success. Special events included the opening of the Sainsbury's Wing of the National Gallery, UKAN celebration at the Institute of Physics, Noise+ Launch at the Royal Academy of Engineering and EPSRC AURORA at University of Surrey. We had visits from Foster + Partners, Royal College of Arts, the Association of Architects, and the Institute of Professional Sound. For interdisciplinary research a collaboration with architects, structural engineers, designers to create a exhibit at the Venice Biennale.  At the end of 2025 we welcomed two international PhD students with two more to come in early next year. We hope you all have a great Christmas and see you in 2026!


 

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