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Dear list, We are looking for smart and motivated candidates for a fully-funded PhD project, based in the University of Nottingham’s Hearing Sciences department.
Loud sound has the capacity to excite and injure in equal measure. There is growing awareness of the need for the professional audio industry to take a pro-active approach to protect audience members’ hearing. This project aims to conduct ground-breaking research into how live sound can be made simultaneously safer
and better quality, to the benefit of audiences in Nottingham and beyond. The PhD candidate will be involved in setting up long-term sound monitoring systems in local venues, developing a smartphone
app that will allow venue goers to contribute their experience of sound quality and hearing symptoms for research, and using data science techniques to improve our understanding of how the details of the sound exposure influence hearing-injury risk and perceived
sound quality. The project will be supervised by Ian Wiggins and Graham Naylor at the University of Nottingham, and Adam Hill at the University of Derby. The studentship will cover UK/Home tuition fees. For more details, see
https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/safe-listening-in-music-venues-scalable-technologies-for-citizen-science-and-knowledge-building/?p169582 For any queries, contact ian.wiggins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Thanks! Graham Naylor |