The Noise Abatement Society annual John Connell Awards were hosted by Lord Balfe and held at the Palace of Westminster on 16th October 2024. The contribution of London South Bank University was recognised in dispatches for, "A Soundscape intervention for a Police Communication roon" the work was led by Peter Rogers of Sustainable Acoustics with the full collaboration of Thames Valley Police. A very interdiscplinary piece of research around comms, room acoustics, behavioural science and psychology was recognised with the Innovation award. Finally, a great evening was held by all with many thanks once again to Gloria Elliott and Dr Lisa Lavia.
Thursday 17 October 2024
Noise Abatement Awards 2024
Tuesday 15 October 2024
Abstract submitted to ICA Meeting New Orleans
Monday 14 October 2024
Welcome to the Student cohort 24/25
The Acoustics Group welcomed the new cohort of students to the laboratory this week. Masters and Institute of Acoustics Diploma students will study together to learn the mysteries of acoustics! We hope you all enjoy the experience and work as a team!
Tuesday 1 October 2024
First Ever Autumn Acoustics Short Course Starts
A cohort of five candidates for the Institute of Acoustics Certificate of Competence in Noise Measurement start at London South Bank University, 23rd September 2024\. This is the first time the Acoustics Group team have run the Autumn option for CCENM. We all hope they enjoyed the course lead by DR Luis Gomez Agustina. We will next run the short course in May 2025!
Sunday 29 September 2024
Auditory Science Conference 2024 held in Cambridge
On the 26/27th September 2024 Cambridge University Hearing Research Group hosted the Basic Auditory Science meeting (ASM) at the McGrath Centre, St Catherine's College. This event was support by UKAN with Professor Stephen Dance (Health and Wellbeing Champion) and his early career research Mr Ruben Vazquez in attendance. With 117 delegates, 32 presentation and 60 posters the conference was a great success. Next year Nottingham!
Tuesday 24 September 2024
Article published in Building Acoustics Journal
An article has been published in Building Acoustics published by Sage.
The article is entitled Objective validation of alternative speech test sources for person-to-person speech intelligibility link 10.1177/1351010X241281539
It has been authored by Dr Luis Gomez-Agustina and Dr Rusdy Hartungi. The findings of this study will, for the first time, provide practitioners guidance and reassurance on the applicability and suitability of affordable non-special loudspeakers. This in turn will enable more researchers and practitioners to undertake person-to person speech intelligibility assessments and investigations when special standardized speech sources are not available or other relevant standards allowing non-special loudspeakers as alternative speech sources are adhered to. We hope you enjoy the read.