Peter Mapp gives guest lecture

On the 4th March 2015 Peter Mapp very kindly gave his 6th Masterclass to the Masters students. He presented his work on speech intelligibility following on from Lorenzo Morales guest lecture. He covered practical applications such as churches, halls, and stadia. Many thanks goes to Peter - we all hope to see him next year!

IOA Acoustic Bulletin Frontpage!

The March/April 2016 issue of the Institute of Acoustics Bulletin leads with Dr Stephen Dance's research with the Royal Academy of Music. His article is entitled, "A comparison of the hearing acuity of classical musicians". Let's see what people think!

Presentation to the 1st ListenUp Conference

The inaugural hearing conservation conference, ListenUp!, was held in Manchester and Buxton on 2/3rd March 2016. The conference and symposium was organised by the Health and Safety Laboratory, the research arm of the Health and Safety Executive. It was highly multi-disciplinary in nature with a lot of views discussed about how to improve the health and wellbeing of the population.  Dr Stephen Dance gave a presentation on "Facing the Music" on his work with orchestral musicians.

AES UK Graduate Student Poster Competition

Andrew Steele was awarded second place out of 12 finalist for his poster "Development of a 3D-printed Dodecahedron Loudspeaker for Improved Omni-Directional Sound Radiation" which was shortlisted and presented at the 2016 Audio Engineering Society UK Sustaining Members Events held in Oxford on 26th February 2016. Well done Andy!

Paulina Kowal defends her thesis

On the 24th February 2016 PhD candidate Paulina Kowal defended her thesis at the Open University. The thesis was entitled, "Investigating physical, acoustical and perceived differences between different model clarinets". Dr Stephen Dance and Dr Janet van der Linden acted as examiners for Paulina. An interesting and in-depth discussion developed during her defence. Congratulations goes to Paulina and Rita (her very little baby girl).

Newman Medal for Doug Shearer

 

On the 20th February 2016 Doug Shearer was awarded the Acoustical Society of America Newman Medal. The meal is awarded for excellence in architectural acoustics, in this case his Masters thesis. His dissertation was entitled, "Measuring absorption below 100 Hz with a P U Sensor" with the tag line, "absorption coefficient measurements are now easy..." from Farina and Torelli. I have to agree as that is why Doug is now working on his PhD on the subject!

Newman Award for MSc student Simon Brown

On the 20th February 2016 Simon Brown was awarded the Acoustical Society of America Newman Medal for excellence in architectural acoustics for his Masters dissertation. His dissertation was entitled,"The suitability of additive manufacturing in 1:10 scale acoustic models of performance spaces". He has already given a Masterclass on his project and now works for Charcoal Blue