Masters' Students doing Lab at Home experiments

This year's Masters' students have been taught on-line. They have had access to "The Lab in a Box" so experiments can be taken at home. We welcome them all and hope that we can all meet in person in 2021!
 

Masters studentJosie Nixon presents at International conference on Drones

 
INCE-Europe held the inaugural conference on Drone Noise, Quiet Drones 19-21st October 2020 on-line. Masters student Josie Nixon presented a paper based on her thesis entitled, "Sound of the Drone Uprising- An exploration of the aero-acoustic performance of drone blades". Josie answered questions at the end of her session on Noise Generation and Mitigation on how a 4 dBA reduction was possible through optimisation based on noise rather than of flight performance.    

Paper published in Applied Acoustics on Treating a Music Rehearsal Space with Airbed

 On 21st October 2020, the scientific journal Applied Acoustics published a paper by PhD candidate Douglas Shearer on his research on low frequency acoustic treatment for music spaces. The paper entitled, "Flexible control of acoustic conditions in a music rehearsal space using airbeds" can be read here until December 2020. 

New Path Medical - Hearing Coach OAE Hearing Test

 

The new method of testing hearing has arrived! Path Medical with Hearing Coach have created a system which can assess personal hearing damage objectively using Otoacoustic Emissions. This system will be used in parallel with traditional health surveillance to provide greater understanding of the hearing acuity of musicians. In 2021 Prof Dance with the full cooperation of the Royal Academy of Music will undertake a pilot study to demonstrate the new technology. 

Former Masters student Nick Brown at IOA 2020

 
During the Speech, Hearing and Biomedical session of the IOA Virtual Acoustics Conference chaired by Dr Haydar Aygun a former Masters student Nick Brown presented his dissertation research. The paper was entitled, "Development of auscultation smartphone app: an investigation into the feasibility of replicating the mechanical auscultation procedure on a smartphone app". Nick now part of the BDP team answered many questions on COVID, sensor position and methodoloy. Well done Nick! 

Steve presents at IOA 2020

 
On the 9th October 2020 Professor Stephen Dance presented at the Institute of Acoustics Virtual Conference. The research was undertaken by PhD candidate Doug Shearer using the techniques developed by Georgia Zepidou in late 2019. The paper was entitled, "Sound exposure of staff at a conservatoire". Many questions were asked over chat which he hoped were answered clearly.

Luis presents at IOA 2020

On 8th October 2020 Dr Luis Gomez-Agustina presented a paper to IOA ACOUSTICS 2020 online conference.The accepted paper for the proceedings is entitled “Repeatability of the balloon pop as a sound source in a room” written in collaboration with MSc Acoustics student Pedro Vazquez-Barrera. Luis enjoyed the opportunity to answer several questions posed from the interested virtual audience and the chair of the session

 

Welcome to the 2020-21 IOA Diploma Course

The 2020-21 IOA Diploma course at LSBU has successfully commenced. Course director Dr Luis Gomez-Agustina welcomed students and introduced the course remotely online. This is seventh time that LSBU runs the IOA Diploma course since it was reinstated in Sept 2013. Eleven students have joined this  2020-21 intake.  This cohort has a varied composition of students from diverse professional and academic background comprising of Music Technology, Audio Engineering, Environmental Science and Architecture students. Due to the current COVID19 pandemic and following official guidance and restrictions,  this year will be the first time we’ll run the Diploma in hybrid mode. This means that’s a large part of teaching and learning will be online with some on-campus lab experiments carried out face to face. We wish you a great learning experience and enjoyable time at LSBU