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 Gregory and Professor Bill Davies on a project titled: Aural neurodiversity: a data-driven transdiagnostic approach for understanding heterogeneity and complexity in musical hearing. She also has external support for this work from Dr Diana Omigie.
Xsara Helmi is working with supervisors Prof. Ursula Hurley and Dr. Pavel Prokopic on a project titled: Sonic Selfhood: Reclaiming Music Scores – Neurodivergent Musicians’ Auditory Identity Through Transdisciplinary Arts-Based Research Practice. She also has external support for this work from Prof John Drever
Lorenzo Bonoldi is working with supervisors Professor Trevor Cox and Dr Adam Hart on a project titled: Personalized music production for aural diversity through citizen science: Optimized equalization for hearing-impaired music producers
Paul Magrath is working with supervisors Professor Bill Davies and Dr Samantha Gregory on a project titled: Exploring Aural Diversity: Understanding the interplay of ADHD and ASD in auditory perception and soundscapes.
Steven Mitchell is working with supervisors Professor Antonio Torija Martinez and dr Robert Bendall on a project titled: The Impact of Environmental Noise on Neurodivergent & Noise Sensitive Individuals relating to Perceived Loudness, Background Noise and Noise Source Characteristics
George Wright is working with supervisors Dr Gemma Taylor and Professor Bill Davies on a project titled: How does Noise Pollution impact upon the development of Young Children?
Addie, Steven and Lorenzo recently spoke about their research at the Acoustics seminar series