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! 

 

Prof Shield wins IOA Geoff Kerry Award

On the 14th May 2026 Emeritus Professor Bridget Shield was awarded the Institute of Acoustics Geoff Kerry Medal. The award is for Distinguished Long Service to the Institute, in fact over 45 years! The event was held in York with the President Elect, Paul Shield and Hilary Notley of DEFRA giving the citation. Well done Bridget!

 

Acoustics Group Engagement at ICSV, Istanbul

 

The 32nd International Congress on Sound and Vibration was held in Istanbul 5-9th July 2026. The Acoustics Group engaged through Dr Haydar Aygun (session organiser in Physical Acoustics) and two PhD candidates Ekim Bakirci and Simla Turhan who both presented. The students both had a great time and networked with other early career professionals. Next year ICSV will be held in Thailand!

Ekim Presents at ICSV Istanbul

 

On the 9th July 2026 PhD candidate Ekim Bakirci presented his research at the International Congress on Sound and Vibration held in Istanbul, Turkey. The research paper was entitled, "Development and validation of the IOT AI- integrated noise monitoring terminal using MEMS microphone technology". Ekim had many questions and luckily he had an extra 20 minutes to answer them all. Well done Ekim!

Simla presents at ICSV Istanbul

On the 7th July 2026 PhD candidate Simla Turhan presented her research at the 32nd International Congress on Sound and Vibration, held in Istanbul, Turkey.  Her research was entitled, "Accuracy of 3D printed scale models in acoustic measurement". Discussions followed around low frequency measurements in scaled systems. Well done on your first international conference presentation!

 

Welcome to the Club Dr Antonella!

 

On the 29th June 2026 doctoral candidate Antonella Bevilacqua defended her PhD thesis. The thesis entitled, "Acoustic assessment of Performing Arts Spaces: from Ancient Theatres to Modern Performance Spaces" and was awarded on the basis of Prior Publication. The examiners Dr Raf Orlowski and Dr Shahram Taherzadeh were delighted with her research work, as was the Chair Dr Sevan Harput of London South Bank University. Professor Stephen Dance was impressed that Antonella picked up her ID card at 10am and was awarded a PhD at 3pm! Well done Dr Antonella!

1,000,000 hits in 19 years!

One the 21st June 2026 the LSBU-Acoustics blog achieved 1,000,000 hits! Formed in 2007 it has taken 19 years to reach this achievement. Acoustics is on the map!