Hearing Conservation Association Conference UKAN Event

 

On the 5th November 2024 the UK Hearing Conservation Association (UKHCA) held  it's 3rd annual conference at the Birmingham Events Centre. UKAN also held an interSIG (Special Interest Group) event involving communication, hearing and immersive audio. Prof Stephen Dance gave an interactive Mentimeter presentation on how UKAN and UKHCA can work together. A great conference was has with presentations from a lawyer, a psychologist, a policymaker, government enforcement, a nurse, an acoustician, an audiologist, an academic, a noise control consultant (see above) and from a marketing expert! The definition of multidisciplinary conference.

Noise Abatement Awards 2024

 

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.    

Abstract submitted to ICA Meeting New Orleans

 

An abstract has been submitted to the International Congress on Acoustics organised by the Acoutstical Society of America. The meeting will be held in New Orleans 18-23 May 2025. The paper is on "Refurbishment of a Choir Rehearsal Room" and is based on Masters student Vincent Tham Jee Sheng research results, 

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!

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! 

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!  

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.