Prof Shield presents to IoA East Branch

Prof Bridget Shield presented Acoustic Group results on school children and how classroom noise effects the education attainment of the class to the IoA Eastern Branch on Wednesday 20th February 2008.

Valentine Ghost at the Royal Academy of Music

On Valentine's Night the Acoustics Group: Georgia, Steve, Salva measured the rooms of the Royal Academy of Music after the students had gone home. Just after midnight Georgia played the piano in the Rectial Hall, then I took this picture of our measurement setup...

Measurements on the Northern Line with Telent

Louis Gomez and Steve Dance were measuring the room acoustics and speech intelligibility of the installed Public Address system in the tube during early February. Very late nights were involved such that Steve spent the morning sleeping in his office, so he found a use for those sofas then!

Dosimetry at the Royal Academy of Music

The Acoustics Group has been monitoring the noise exposure of musicians at the Royal Academy of Music. Nine dosimeters were given out to measure the noise dose over 3 hours sessions for a range of instruments and musical types. Georgia Zepidou wanted some earplugs after only 1 week; only 8 weeks to go George!

Acoustics Group at Noise Risk Seminar

Steve Dance and PhD student Georgia Zepidou of Sound Research Labs will jointly present a paper on Risk assessment implementation at the Royal Academy of Music with Martin Mamony-Hayes of JEM Safety Ltd. The event is organised by the Institute of Acoustics and held at Barbican, London on 16th April 2008 and is entitled Playing Safe- Meeting the control of noise at work regulation 2005 in music and entertainment.

Acoustics Group involved in seminar at the Royal Society

The Acoustics Group are heavily involved in the Speech and Hearing in Learning Environments seminar to be held at the Royal Society 29th January 2008. Emma Greenland chair of the Speech and Hearing Group at the Institute of Acoustics is organising the event; herself, Anne Carey and Prof Bridget Shield will be presenting. Well organised!

Acoustics Group submit abstracts to Acoustics 08

The Acoustics Group have submitted 5 abstracts to Acoustics 08 Paris. The subjects covered include:
The relationship between noise and primary school children
Bridget Shield and Julie Dockrell of the Institute of Education
Vibration of rooftop wind turbines (MSc project)
Steve Dance and Linda Liviani of RBA Associates
iPod Listening levels (MSc project)
Steve Dance and Phil Wash of Bickerdike Allen
Noise risk at the Royal Academy of Music (MSc project)
Steve Dance, Salva Morant JEM Safety Ltd, Georgia Zepidou of SRL
Measurement of speech intelligibility using low level output
Christos Nestoras and Steve Dance