Here you will find news and updates about the research and researchers in LAURA.
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 […]
Our first cohort of students started their projects in October 2024. Please find details about their projects below. Addie Beckwith is working with supervisors Dr Robert Bendall and Dr Duncan Williams on a project titled: Aural diversity in sensory emotion regulation and its implications for mental health. Silvia Castellano is working with supervisors Dr Samantha […]