PhD researcher Xsara Helmi will be a visiting student at Cambridge Digital Humanities at the University of Cambridge during Michaelmas term 2026. During the visit, Helmi will be supervised by her external advisor, Prof. John L. Drever. and will further develop and share her research within the Cambridge Digital Humanities community. Helmi’s project, The Numinous Ear: Autistic Listening and Aural Diversity […]
The Leverhulme Trust Aural Diversity Doctoral Research Hub (LAURA) at the University of Salford will hold its secondAural Diversity Conference Date 3 September 2026 Location This conference will be held in-person at the University of Salford, MediaCityUK B4, Orange Tower, Salford M50 2HE, with an option for virtual/hybrid attendance. What is aural diversity? The concept […]
PhD students Sena Dokmeci and Paula Schneider recently presented their posters at the Experimental Psychology Society meeting in Newcastle. The meeting was an opportunity to share a research plan for the first study of their PhDs. See the conference programme here. Sena Dokmeci Sena shared the following about the experience: ‘I had the opportunity to […]
The Numinous Ear: Autistic Listening and Aural Diversity as a Gateway to the Divine and Sublime PhD researcher Xsara Helmi from LAURA (The Leverhulme Trust Aural Diversity Research Hub) is grateful for the opportunity to present The Numinous Ear: Autistic Listening and Aural Diversity as a Gateway to the Divine and Sublime at Sacred Arts 2026: Exploring the […]
HOSPITAL NOISES: Sonic Autobiography and the Embodied Experience of Autistic Auditory Perception – A Transdisciplinary Arts-Practice Inquiry Xsara Helmi, PhD Researcher with LAURA (The Leverhulme Trust Aural Diversity Research Doctoral Hub), funded by the Leverhulme Trust, is pleased to announce her forthcoming article, ‘HOSPITAL NOISES: Sonic Autobiography and the Embodied Experience of Autistic Auditory Perception […]
Our second cohort of students started their projects in October 2025. Please find details about their projects below. Neesa Sunar is working with supervisors Dr Adam Hart and Dr Goncalo Barradas on a project titled: Neurodiversity of Audiation and Mental Practice: A Survey of Aphantasic Musicians Paula Helene Schneider is working with supervisors Professor Bill […]
PhD researcher Xsara Helmi will have her poem To Be Unmade featured in Issue #9 of Indelible, the literary and arts journal from the London Arts-Based Research Centre. The issue, themed Awakening, launches on 11th October in both print and digital formats. The poem emerged as a reflexive, transdisciplinary, arts-based, and heuristic-inspired exploration, tracing the interconnections […]
University of Salford and online – 5 September 2025 – Sign up The aural diversity movement springs from the observation that the many differences in hearing/listening might be better represented by a concept of a diverse range of hearing types instead of a binary normal/impaired model. Aural diversity has made significant progress since the term […]
University of Salford and online – 5 September 2025 Call for Papers The aural diversity movement springs from the observation that the many differences in hearing/listening might be better represented by a concept of a diverse range of hearing types instead of a binary normal/impaired model. Aural diversity has made significant progress since the term […]
PhD researcher Xsara Helmi recently presented at the transdisciplinary conference Sacred Arts 2025: Exploring the Spiritual Dimensions of Artistic Expression and Ritual, hosted by the London Arts-Based Research Centre at the University of Oxford, as part of the Sacred Soundscapes section. Her paper, The Numinous Ear: Autistic Listening and Aural Diversity as a Gateway to the […]