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Dear List, The Leverhulme Aural Diversity Doctoral Research Hub (LAURA) is now recruiting a third and final cohort of research students to start in September 2026. We’re now partnering with Prof John Drever at the Centre for Digital Humanities at
the University of Cambridge. Candidates will apply to either Salford or Cambridge depending upon the expertise of a suitable supervisor. The application processes start off separate and merge together later on (when we decide on the funding offers). For Salford, see
https://laura.salford.ac.uk/; for Cambridge, see https://www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/phd/laura/ The main points:
We are having a webinar for applicants on the 10th December at 12pm (GMT), here is the joining
link. John Drever and I will outline the programme, funding and application process. Some LAURA supervisors will introduce themselves and their topics, and we will answer some questions from applicants. Currently the stipend is £20,780 per year, the 2026 rate will be similar (matching the UKRI rate). LAURA students will not pay tuition fees. In addition, Leverhulme-funded LAURA PhD students will each have access to up to £10,000 for research
and professional development costs. Aural diversity is the fairly new idea that hearing/listening differences between individuals and groups might be better represented as a spectrum instead of a binary normal/impaired division. The PhD topics will build on the early work
of the https://auraldiversity.org/ research network to apply the aural diversity concept in many disciplines concerned with sound. Hence, the PhDs are mostly rather interdisciplinary and a bit different from mainstream
hearing science. For further information, including how to apply, please refer to our website at
https://laura.salford.ac.uk/
We encourage interested applicants to contact potential supervisors for an informal discussion. For questions which are not about a specific PhD topic, you can email
see-laura@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Cheers, Bill Professor Bill Davies
(he/him) Acoustics Research Centre | School of Science, Engineering & Environment w.davies@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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