Since 2008 more than £80,000 has been awarded to clinicians and scientists conducting 23
projects.
Lead investigator
Prof Kevin Munro
Manchester
Dr Ruth Brooke
Leeds
Dr Veronica Kennedy
Bolton
Dr Louisa Murdin
London
Dr Stefan Bleeck
Southampton
Dr Christian Fullgrabe
Nottingham
Dr Dilys Treharne
Sheffield
Dr Waheeda Pagarkar
London
Dr Doris Bamiou
London
Dr Katie Ireland
Reading
Prof Deb Hall
Nottingham
Dr Mel Ferguson
Nottingham
Rachel Knappett
Cambridge
Hannah Cooper
Reading
Dr Nick Thyer
Leeds
Dr Michael Maslin
Manchester
Sally Dawson
London
Dr Derek Hoare
Nottingham
Mat Daniel
Nottingham
Dr Amanda Hall
Bristol
Stephanie Greer
Wrexham
Owen Brimijoin
Glasgow
Jackie Young
Winchester
Project
Does functional imagining show evidence of brain plasticity
in the adult auditory system after unilateral earplug
experience
Repeatability of neck and lower limb sound induced
vestibular evoked myogenic potentials
Management of paediatric tinnitus: a survey of working
practice in the UK
Genetics of migrainous vertigo
Funding
£3000
Tinnitus in cochlear implantees: cognitive behavioural
therapy for cochlear implant users
Speech segregation in elderly normal-hearing listeners:
Effect of cognitive load
Auditory and audio-visual Speech Reception Threshold in
Children and Adolescents
Study of ocular and cervical vestibular evoked myogenic
potentials in healthy school-age children
Hearing Evaluation And Rehabilitation after Stroke
(HEARS
Can cortical auditory evoked potentials reliably measure
access to speech using frequency compression hearing
aids?
Consensus on hearing-aid fitting candidature for mild
hearing loss with and without tinnitus: Delphi review
Development and evaluation of an interactive video tutorial
for hearing aid users and their communication partners
Is it possible to improve hearing handicap in patients with
single sided deafness
Imaging Auditory Pathways in children with Auditory
Neuropathy Spectrum Disorder
The influence of advances in hearing aid technology on
models of service delivery for hearing impaired adults in
the NHS
Perceptual consequences of plasticity in binaural systems:
evidence from adults with unilateral deafness
Otosclerosis: Evaluating candidate genes identified by
whole exome sequencing in a cohort of familial
otosclerosis patients
Watchful waiting and tinnitus: a systematic review and
meta-analysis
What is important to parents of children with glue ear?
£3000
Development of a patient decision aid for shared decision
making in adult audiology services
Evaluation of live voice auditory training in a randomised
controlled trial of existing hearing aid users
Establishing the preferences of high intelligibility audio
mixes of BBC television programmes among hearing
impaired individuals
A clinical practice comparison of the amplification
dispensed at adult hearing aid fitting using (i) live real ear
measures with custom ear moulds vs (ii) real ear to
coupler difference (RECD measures with foam inserts
£4485
£3000
£1903
£3000
£2697
£3000
£3000
£2950
£2940
£1428
£4296
£5032
£3263
£4908
£4561
£4967
£3201
£4960
£3414
£4337
£3252