Qualification Type: | PhD |
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Location: | Nottingham |
Funding for: | UK Students |
Funding amount: | £18,622 per annum and tuition fees. UK/Home students only. |
Hours: | Full Time |
Placed On: | 4th March 2024 |
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Closes: | 1st April 2024 |
Reference: | MED2000 |
Supervisor 1: Ian Wiggins [Ian.Wiggins@nottingham.ac.uk]
Supervisor 2: Graham Naylor [Graham.Naylor@nottingham.ac.uk]
Supervisor 3: Adam Hill [A.Hill@derby.ac.uk]
Location: NIHR Nottingham Biomedical Research Centre, Building 40, University Park Campus, Nottingham.
Funding status: This studentship is funded by the NIHR (National Institute of Health and Care Research) Nottingham Biomedical Research Centre. The studentship will cover home University rates which includes a stipend of £18,622 per annum and tuition fees. UK/Home students only.
Project description:
Loud sound has the capacity to excite and injure in equal measure. Through projects such as the World Health Organization’s ‘Make Listening Safe’ initiative, the Audio Engineering Society’s ‘Healthy Ears, Limited Annoyance (HeLa) programme, and the Night Time Industries Association’s ‘Listen for Life’ campaign, there is growing awareness of the need for the professional audio industry to take a pro-active approach to protect audience members’ hearing.
Join a dynamic, multi-disciplinary team, that includes lead contributors to some of the above-mentioned projects, to conduct groundbreaking PhD research into how live sound can be made simultaneously safer and better quality, to the benefit of audiences in Nottingham and beyond.
As a PhD candidate, you 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.
We seek highly motivated candidates with a first-class or upper 2.1 honours degree (or equivalent), or an MSc/MA, in audio engineering, acoustics, audiology, computer science, or a relevant scientific discipline. Research experience in hearing, psychology, or a related field will be advantageous, as will demonstrable skills in programming, data science, or app development.
Subject area:
Audio, acoustics, hearing, audiology, music, app development
Funding notes:
This studentship is funded by the NIHR (National Institute of Health and Care Research) Nottingham Biomedical Research Centre. The studentship will cover home University rates which includes a stipend of £18,622 per annum and tuition fees. UK/Home students only.
Studentship start date: Choice of 1 July 2024 or 1 October 2024. Duration is 36 months full time.
How to apply:
Please email MS-HS-BRCadmin@exmail.nottingham.ac.uk with the following documents and put “Safe listening NIHR Nottingham BRC PhD studentship” in the title.
Additional enquiries:
Informal enquiries may be addressed to Ian Wiggins email: Ian.Wiggins@nottingham.ac.uk
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