Hearing Conservation Conference supported by UKAN event

 

The Hearing Conservation Association will host their annual conference on 5th November 2024 at Birmingham Event Centre. This is a UKAN supported event. This year will include a research update fromn Professor Stepheh Dance who will also host a discussion between the Communication, hearing and Immersive Audio Special Interest Groups. See you in Birmingham

19th Year of Royal Academy of Music Hearing Assessments

 
On the 5th September 2024 the Acoustics Group started the 19th round of hearing assessments for the Royal Academy of Music. This year PhD candidate Ruben Vazquez Amos is assisting Professor Stephen Dance in the audiometric and otoacoustic emission testing. This year we should reach 5500 audiograms and 1000 OAE results!

Additional funding from UKAN for Campaign on Hearing

 

On the 2nd September 2024 Professor Stephen Dance has been awarded £5000 from the UK Acoustics Network (UKJAN) to help support the campaign to Make Listening Safe and the annual Hearing Conservation Association conference. Lets hope that the campaign raises public awareness of the risks associated with using headphones for gaming and music listening..     

Professor Stephen Dance presents his work at Inter-Noise24

 

On the 29th August 2024 Professor Stephen Dance presented his research to Inter-Noise24 in Nantes. His paper was entitled, "Sound exposure of St Paul's Cathedral choristers including unusual events". The special event of particular interest was when the tenor gave an unamplified solo performance which filled the entire volume of St Paul's. This raised many questions from the audience but has resulted in an all girls choir being introduced. The first time in 900 years! 

PhD Candidate Ruben Vazquez presents at Inter-Noise24

 

Inter-Noise 2024 - the largest ever acoustics conference

The French Society of Acoustics held the 53rd Inter-Noise conference in Nantes between 25-29th August 2024. This was the largest Inter-Noise with 1874 delegates attending the little hybrid meeting with 1169 papers presented with 22.5% of those from Early Careers paying significantly less to attend.. The size of the Inter-Noise meeting was 50% larger than typical.. Professor Stephen Dance sat on the I-INCE committee which selected this venue as a conference which turned out to be a great decision! The welcome address involved music and comedy to demonstrate physical principles. Let's hope Brazil 2025 can continue the great progress! 

Abstract submitted to British Academy of Audiology Conference

 

The British Academy of Audiology is holding it's annual conference in Telford 21/22nd November 2024. At this meeting Audio3 will unveil the first music based audiometer design, built and tested in cooperation with Chear, St Thomas's Hospital and London South Bank University. A paper will be presented entitled, "Music Audiometer: Can we use music stimuli to measure the hearing of children with social and communication disorders?". In addition, an exhibition booth will allow audiologists to see and experience the prototype!