On the 25th May 2023 at the invitation of the UK Hearing Conservation Association Professor Stephen Dance presented to their annual meeting, held at Casella Headquarters in Bedford. The presentation covered non traditional uses for hearing protection and the work of the UK Acoustics Network. Plans are now afoot for the annual conference to be held on 8th November 2023 up in Sheffield.
On the 19th May 2023 an abstract was submitted to the joint Acoustical Society of America and Australisan Acoustical Society meeting to be held in Sydney 4-8 December 2023. The abstract entitled,"Higher Education Audiometric Research (HEAR) - An on-site assessment of conservatoire students" has been written by Professor Stephen Dance, Ruben Vazquez Amos and Georgia Zepidou based on the research with the Royal Academy of Music. See you downunder!
On the 11th May 2023 Dr Haydar Aygun gave a talk at the Institute of Acoustics (IOA) May 2023 London Branch held at London South Bank University. The talk was delivered in person and simultaneously streamed online to a remote audience. Haydar’s talk was entitled Acoustic wave propagation through natural and conventional porous materials and covered his past and present research work.
We have come to the end of another year! We hope all the Apprentices, Diploma and Masters students enjoyed their time at LSBU. Lots of extra-cirruculum events were held which helped you all bond and network: F+P Architects, Royal Opera House visit, Henry Wood Hall measurements and working with the Association of Architect students. More to come next year!
On the 9th May 2023 for the 9th year LSBU welcomed this year's cohort of IOA Certificate of Competence in Environmental Noise Assessment students. Dr Luis Gomez Agustina lead the team to deliver the one week short course involving Professor Stephen Dance, Dr Hyun Lim and Dr Haydar Aygun. We hope they enjoyed their first taste of acoustics and will come back for more!
On the 4th May 2023 the first acoustic tests of a prototype Paedratic Audiometer were undertaken in the Acoustics Laboratory of London South Bank University by Dr Bradford Backus of Audio-3.com and Professor Stephen Dance. The project is funded by InnovateUK and will result in better diagnosis of the hearing of toddlers.
On the 3rd May 2023, Ruben Vazquez Amos signed up to a joint PhD in architectural acoustics. The PhD is funded jointly with the Royal Academy of Music. Ruben studied on our Masters course in Environmental and Architectural Acoustics, graduating in October 2022. He will be supervised by Professor Stephen Dance. Welcome back Ruben!
On the 3rd May 2023, after a 2 year delay Dr Orchisama Das presented her latest research into, "Modellng room acoustics for audio immersion in Extended Reality". The Feedback Delay Network method was compared to Scattered Delay Networks to create a realistic aural experience in Virtual Reality. Apple's work on personalised HRTF would aid the perception in artificial reality. But still lots of work to do! Many thanks Orchi
