New PhD student joins the Acoustics Group

On the 1st October 2010 the Acoustics Group welcomed Nick Durup to the research fold! Nick is from SharpsRedmore acoustic consultants and will work on the Acoustics of Schools. Welcome!

20 Student Acousticians join the Masters Course

On the 30th September 2010 20 students joined the Masters course in Environmental and Architectural Acoustics at London South Bank University. They're a mixture of part-time (consultants) and full-timers mainly from the UK and Spain. Welcome one and all!

Telent Project Awarded Highest Mark

The Knowledge Transfer Partnership with Telent Technical Services has been awarded the highest possible award by the KTP panel. This "Outstanding" project concerned improving the Public Address System of London Underground. Well done team, let's put it forward for a prize!

Research Article in Noise & Health

Noise and Health Volume 19 Issue 49, Oct-Dec 2010 has an article on, 'Noise in Open Plan Classrooms in Primary Schools - A review'. The article was authored by Bridget Shield, Emma Greenland and Julie Dockrell.

PhD student presents at IoA London Branch

On Wednesday 15th September Nicky Shiers presented her PhD research -- the story so far! Nicky's work is on hospital acoustics and the difficulties involved in getting permissions to do any kind of research for the NHS! Well done on your perserverance.

Abstracts accepted at IoA Autumn Conference

On the 2nd November 2010 two researchers from the Acoustics Group will present their work at the Institute of Acoustics Autumn conference. Nicky Shiers will be presenting her research on, "Noise levels in inpatient hospital wards". Rob Conetta will be presenting his work with the Institute of Education on, "Objective and subjective surveys of secondary schools". Good luck guys.

New Music Book Published

On the 28th August a new work by John Powell was published by Penguin entitled, "How Music Works". Stephen Dance edited Chapter 8 - How loud is loud? - see Guardian review and 21st Floor Blog. John demonstrates some music tricks here on Youtube. The book can be purchased for £8 at Amazon.