300 Happy Ears for Musicians

This will be the 20th year of Hearing Health Surveillance for the Royal Academy of Music. We had 300 Happy Ears arrive which will protect the classical music students. The problem they needed to be divided into small, medium and large,,,, musicians have small ear canals than the general population!

 

Closing Inter-Noise 2026 on behalf of I-INCE

 

On the evening of 12th August 2026 Professor Stephen Dance stood in for Professor Li Cheng (I-INCE President) to give the speech to formally close Inter-Noise 2026. Thanks were given to the local organising committee for all their hard work over the past 4 years!   

Presenting at Inter-Noise 2026

 

On the 12th August 2026 Professor Stephen Dance presented his research ar Inter-Noise 2026 in Adelaide Australia. His talk was in the Human Factors session and entitled, "A Supplementary method of assessment the hearing health of classical musicians". The talk received excellent feedback from the music community inside acoustics!

I-INCE Board Meeting for Inter-Noise 2026

At Internoise 2026 the 55th I-INCE Conference Professor Stephen Dance took over as Secretary General for the international organisation. He run the CSC, Board of Director Meeting and the General Assembly, all hybrid meetings, with some issues around Zoom passwords and internet connectivity in the Adelaide Convention Centre! It is a successful meeting with 872 delegates with  572 papers!

 

Caroline McKinley wins ANC Best Project Prize

On the 27th July 2026 Ms Caroline McKinley was awarded the ANC Best IOA Project Prize for her dissertation undertaken at London South Bank University. The project was entitled, "Impact of reverberation time and ambient noise levels in school dining rooms". The project was supervised by Dr Luis Gomez-Agustina.during 2024/25. Well done Caroline!  

 

Welcome to the club Dr Alec

On the 14th July 2026 PhD candidate Alec Korchev defended his thesis entitled, "Wind induced noise creak in tall buildings". Alec did his PhD under the supervisory team of Professor Stephen Dance, Mr Ed Clarke and Ms Ottavia Rispoli. We'd like to thank examiners Dr PJ Lee of Liverpool and Federico Rossi of LSBU. Alec was a part-time PhD student working for Clarke Saunders. Well done Alec!

 

Caroline McKinley Wins IOA Best Diploma Student Award

On the 14th May 2026 Caroline McKinley won the Institute of Acoustics Best Performing Student Prize. Caroline was in our 2024/25 cohort of IOA Diploma students. She was working for Anderson Acoustics whilst studying. Well done Caroline!