UCL Ear Institute

24/09/2020

Our 'Advanced Adult Rehabilitation Online Masterclass' is ideal if you have some experience working with people with hearing loss and want to improve your knowledge and rehabilitation skills. The course begins late October with live online sessions on 10th and 11th November.

Find out more and book your place here: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ear/study/cpd-courses/advanced-adult-rehabilitation

23/09/2020

All three Band 5 audiologists working at The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust are UCL Ear Institute MSc Audiological Science with Clinical Practice graduates! John Waters, Head of Audiology at The Princess Alexandra Hospital and Chair of East of England Leaders in Audiology Network, wrote to us at the UCL Ear Institute to say "Thank you for providing the course and teaching!" We’re very proud of our graduates, and work hard to give our students the skills they need for the clinical workplace.

08/09/2020

Congratulations to former UCL Ear Institute member Lisa Nolan who has edited a Special Issue of the Journal of Neuroscience Research on "Age-Related Hearing Loss: A new focus on an age old puzzle", featuring articles from the EI community including Anwen Bullen, Helena Wells and Lucy Anderson... and an epic cover animation!

Find out more here: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ear/news/2020/sep/special-issue-journal-neuroscience-research-featuring-members-ucl-ear-institute

08/09/2020

"The NIHR Academy Incubator for Advanced Surgical Technology will accelerate advance in operating technology and robotics for the benefit of NHS patients and UK plc" says Professor Birchall from the UCL Ear Institute, who is also Director of the NIHR Incubator for Advanced Surgical Technology. Four new NIHR Incubators have been formed to support and advocate academic research careers, including one in the field of advanced surgical technology.

Find out more here: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/interventional-surgical-sciences/news/2020/aug/nihr-incubator-launched-advanced-surgical-technology

03/09/2020

Jack Stancel-Lewis has written about his experience at the UCL Ear Institute studying a postgraduate taught degree in Advanced Audiology. You can read it here: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/brain-sciences/case-studies/2020/sep/jack-stancel-lewis-pgt-advanced-audiology-2020

27/08/2020

Congratulations to Natallia Kharytaniuk from the UCL Ear Institute who has been awarded 'Train and Engage' funding by UCL for her project on "Living with superficial siderosis – patients’ journey." Find out more here: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/culture/projects/2020-train-and-engage-funded-projects

26/08/2020

The 4-week UCL Step Challenge starts on 7th Sept! To join the UCL Ear Institute team - email Alice Milne. You'll need to log your steps each week and report them back to Alice. For more information visit:

We are excited to be back with UCL Steps Challenge for the second year and we are hoping that you will join us for 4 weeks from Monday 7 September in an effort to walk or run more, whether it's going

25/08/2020

Congratulations to Dr Lucy Handscomb and Dr Hannah Cooper - both from the UCL Ear Institute - who have been awarded a research grant from UCL Institute of Mental Health to study how older people with hearing loss are adapting to the use of videoconferencing platforms, which have become such a popular way of keeping in touch with friends and family during the COVID-19 pandemic. Find out more here: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/mental-health/research/small-grant-funding/small-grant-funding-2020

24/08/2020

Dr Raj Shekhawat from the UCL Ear Institute is giving a TEDx talk this Saturday 29 August at 1pm (UK time) on “TEARS OF JOY: The magic of HEARING” via Zoom. It's relevant for anyone passionate about hearing, especially preventable hearing loss in humans. Find out more and register for free here: https://www.tedxsfit.com/

20/08/2020

Jasmine Ho, Clinical Research Training Fellow at the Ear Institute has been featured in the "UCL Spotlight On" series. Jasmine chats about founding the PPE charity MedSupplyDrive UK, which has directed over 250,000 items of PPE to more than 500 health and social care establishments to date. Read more here: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2020/aug/spotlight-jasmine-ho