On the 15th November 2022 Dr Franscesco Aletta invited Professor Stephen Dance to talk at a MDPI webinar on Environmental Noise and Soundscape on the results from the Quiet Project. He was joined by three other speakers, 2 for Spain and another from Birmingham City University to discuss the topic and the future of soundscape research. The 29 attendees enjoyed the lucntime session with a Q&A panel to close the event.
The 14th International Conference on the Biological Effects of Noise will be hosted by Serbia, 18-23 June 2023. Professor Stephen Dance has submitted an abstract on the hearing assessment of classical musicians. He will present on Otoacoustic Emissions and their ability to identify at the earliest stage hearing damage in musicians. See you in Belgrade!
On the 28th October 2022 London South Bank University School of the Built Environment and Architecture held their graduation ceremony at the Royal Festival Hall. Sam, Karina and Jake graduated from the Masters course in Environmental and Architectural Acoustics. Great to see you guys!
On the 19th October 2022 Professor Stephen Dance chaired the Institute of Acoustics Musical Acoustics Group meeting hosted at Birmingham City University. The meeting consisted of seven presentations enjoyed by 26 attendees. Professor Dance presented two on his latest research: Acoustics of Sitzprobe Rehearsals and a Novel Hearing Asessment Method for Musicians. Manchester University presented four topics and Edinburgh provided the finale. The meeting eas kindly supported by UKAN with 40% of attendees Early Career and 40% of presentation given by ECRs.
Professor Stephen Dance was invited to the Institute of Acoustics Eastern Branch to present the latest research results from the Quiet Project. Colchester United football club were the hosts of the event held on the 12th October 2022. The Quiet Project Lockdown 1 results showed how roads became point sources with the massive reduction in traffic flow and how Case 1 instrumentation was necessary to measure the noise levels in Rural and Suburban locations. Discussions continued in the local Tandori restuarant.
We welcome the six new part-time Masters students on the MSc in Environmental and Architectural Acoustics. We hope you enjoy your time at London South Bank University and it was great to see some old timers from the IOA Diploma course are back!
The 2022-2023 course of Institute of Acoustics (IOA) Diploma in Acoustics and Noise Control at LSBU commenced on 29 September 2022. Course director Dr Luis Gomez-Agustina welcomed the students and introduced the course. This is nineth time that LSBU runs the IOA Diploma course since it was reinstated in September 2013. Fourteen students have joined this academic year intake. This cohort has a varied composition comprising of Music Technology, Audio Engineering, Geography, Sport Science, Environmental Health and Mathematics students. Two weeks into the course the students are settling in well and enjoying the on-campus lab experiments , lectures and lab facilities.
We wish you a great learning experience and enjoyable time at LSBU
