The Sound Futures CDT launched its topic days series in late January with the CDT students travelling to Salford, Manchester to visit the Salford Acoustics Innovation Labs and the RIBA award winning performance space, Stoller Hall. Hosted by Stoller Hall, the first day opened with Adam Thomas (Arup), who outlined how the Arup team delivered […]
16 January 2026 Thomas Stolarski, University of Sheffield CDT student presented his latest PhD poster on complex acoustic scenes from the perspective of hearing aids at the prestigious SpiN2026 conference in Paris. Thomas’ work explores one of the most pressing challenges in modern hearing science: how hearing aid users navigate real‑world, noisy environments. His research […]
4 December 2025 The CDT journal club was joined today by Dr Helen Whitehead to discuss the current research into the impact of noise on animal behaviour. Chaired by Professor Trevor Cox, Dr Whitehead and the students explored bioacoustics and the research methodologies outlined in When the birds go unheard: highway noise disrupts information transfer […]
25 November 2025 The EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Sustainable Sound Futures marked an exciting milestone last week as the full cohort came together in person for the first time at our Winter Residential hosted by the University of Southampton’s Institute of Sound and Vibration Research (ISVR). Despite the chilly weather, the residential offered […]
The November CDT Journal club were joined by Professor Charlotte Clark from the City of St George’s, University of London who explored the impacts and harms of environment noise and shared insights from her research and experience in the field. The journal club discussion centred around her paper Evidence for Environmental Noise Effects on Health for […]
05 November EPSRC Sustainable Sound Futures CDT programme has just launched their new list of fully funded PhD projects to join the Sustainable Sound Futures CDT programme from September 2026. Across the 4 partner universities (Bristol, Salford, Sheffield and Southampton), the CDT is offering over 20 PhD projects spanning vibro-acoustics, aeroacoustics and metamaterials to environmental […]
Today the CDT training programme launched its CDT Journal Club. The CDT students were joined by Professor Bill Davies (Salford – Director of LAURA with research interests in aural diversity, soundscape and acoustics) to discuss and explore his thought-provoking co-authored paper “Ten questions concerning autism and auditory accessibility in buildings.” Chaired by Dr Simone Graetzer, […]
October 2025 After much anticipation and preparation, the Sustainable Sound Futures CDT programme has welcomed its first cohort of 18 PhD students across the 4 partner universities (Salford, Bristol, Sheffield and Southampton). Most will be researching their PhD projects in collaboration with industry, government and 3rd sector partners over the next 4 years. In addition […]