Professor Stephen Dance has submitted an abstract to the Inter-Noise 2024 conference, to be held in Nantes 20-24 August 2024. The abstract is entitled, "Sound exposure of St Paul's Cathedral choristers including unusual events". Looking forward to seeing you all in France!
On the 1st November 2023 the UK Acoustic Network (UKAN) sponsored the launch event of the Make Listening Safe campaign. The event was co-sponsored by Sky eSports and held at their Guild eSports centre in Shoreditch, London. The campaign was supported by the World Health Organisation with the lead for Hearing, Dr Shelly Chadha giving the opening address. Professor Stephen Dance gave a demonstration of how hearing can change with time using music and explained how hearing damage could become an eSports injury. The event was pulled together by Stephen Wheatley who also compered. Many thanks to all 50 delegates, to Sky eSports and to the WHO.
Patrick Spiers, student of the 2022-23 MSc in Environmental and Architectural Acoustics at London South Bank University (LSBU) has been awarded the Acoustical Society of America (ASA) Robert Bradford student medal. The Robert Bradford Newman Student Medal for Merit in Architectural Acoustics, recognizes excellence in the study of acoustics and its application to architecture throughout the world. The judging panel based their decision on Patrick’s MSc Final project dissertation. He was presented the medal on the day of his MSc graduation, 1st Nov 2023, by the final project supervisor and current course leader Dr Luis Gomez-Agustina and the Associate Dean for Student experience Dr Alex Paurine. Many congratulations Patrick !
On the 18th October 2023, Professor Stephen Dance was especially invited to the launch of the Night Time Industries Association Listen for Life Campaign. The event was held at the Palace of Westminster and hosted by Jeff Smith MP for Manchester, and a former DJ. Dr Rob Shepheard presented the work on hearing surveillance using Otoacoustic emissions and the importance of awareness, assessment and protection. Unfortunately it was a breakfast meeting so only coffee and pastries were available!
On the 16th October 2023, Professor Stephen Dance presented the results of the Masters' students experiment at the Institue of Acoustics annual conference. The paper was entitled, "The effect on speech intelligibility of source direction in rooms". This was an objective and subjective study which showed that you may need double the absorption to keep the same level of speech intelligibility if you are not facing the loudspeaker, such as on a subway station. The students then stood up to took the applause!
The Masters and PhD students attended the annual Institute of Acoustics Conference this year held in the beautiful city of Winchester. In total seven students enjoyed the Early Career event, sponsored by Getzner. Although the event coinsided with the Rugby World Cup Quarter Finals, Then they enjoyed the two day conference providing many insightful questions to the speakers!
