The Institute of Acoustics Musical Acoustics meeting is to be held on 19th October 2022 in Birmingham City University. An additional abstract has been submitted by Professor Stephen Dance on his recent work with the Royal Academy of Music on, "New methods for the hearing assessment of musicians". The work will show how otoacoustic emission can be used to assess the cochlear function to detect at the earliest stage possible hearing damage.
On the 8th September 2022 the Acoustics Group received a portable based audiometer from Cluistrom called Kudawave. This will allow audiometry to be undertaken on-site demoncratising hearing assessment. First point of call arr students, who need to know the value of their own hearing!
On the 8th September 2022 InnovateUK awarded an industry led team £450,000. The Acoustics Group's Professor Stephen Dance is the academic lead. The 3 year programme, under "Biomedical catalyst 22: Round 1" funded research to produce a Paediatric Music based Audiometer. The team lead by Dr Bradford Backus of Audio3 with support from St Thomas's Hospital audiology unit has to deliver on this great idea!
On 8th September 2022 for the 16th year the hearing assessment of the Royal Academy of Music has been undertaken by Professor Stephen Dance of London South Bank University in a long term collaboration. In total 330 students will be tested in September 2022 using both audiometry and otoacoustic emissions to assess hearing acuity of classical musicians. All will be offered hearing protection.
