Health Science: Fully Funded Swansea University PhD: An investigation of modern technology in hearing aids: the benefits of binaural beamforming to spatial hearing

Job title:

Well being Science: Absolutely Funded Swansea College PhD: An investigation of recent expertise in listening to aids: the advantages of binaural beamforming to spatial listening to

Firm

Swansea College

Job description

Job Info Organisation/Firm

Swansea College Division

Central Analysis Discipline

Different

Medical sciences Researcher Profile

First Stage Researcher (R1) Nation

United Kingdom Utility Deadline

4 Mar 2024 – 23:59 (Europe/London) Kind of Contract

Different Job Standing

Full-time Is the job funded via the EU Analysis Framework Programme?

Not funded by an EU programme Is the Job associated to workers place inside a Analysis Infrastructure?

No

Provide Description

Funding suppliers: Swansea College’s College of Drugs, Well being and Life Science

Topic areas: Audiology, Psychoacoustics, Sign Processing, Psychology, Engineering, Laptop Science

Challenge begin date:

• 1 April 2024 (Enrolment open from mid-March)

Challenge supervisors:

• Dr Barry Bardsley (

) * Professor Andrea Tales

• Professor Stephen Johnson

Aligned programme of examine: PhD in Well being Science

Mode of examine: Full-time

Challenge description:

The College of Drugs, Well being and Life Science is happy to supply a fully-funded scholarship for a full-time doctoral pupil.

The scholarship consists of tuition charges and a stipend – reviewed yearly on the – and a £1,000 annual coaching allowance to assist immersive coaching experiences, convention attendance, engagement with business and worldwide collaborative alternatives.

The scholarship is obtainable for a most interval of three years; college students are anticipated to submit their theses inside this timescale.

Listening to loss is frequent within the UK, with one in 5 of the inhabitants residing with some type of listening to impairment. Listening to aids (HAs) present a partial answer to the issue, however the efficiency of the HA when the wearer is in a loud atmosphere is usually decrease than anticipated, due to a poor signal-to-noise ratio (SNR).

Among the finest methods used for bettering the SNR is a directional microphone (DM), which offers lowered sensitivity for sounds from behind and to the aspect of the listener. Trendy developments have resulted in two HAs with the ability to talk with one another and enhance this directional sensitivity (known as binaural beamforming, BB). In laboratory settings BB reveals important profit in speech intelligibility in noise, however this isn’t mirrored within the affected person reported outcomes. Why is there a discrepancy between these two measures on BB efficiency and the way might this inform gadget/software program design? By simulation (headphones) and extra lifelike means (loudspeakers), measures of spatial listening to efficiency of HA customers, utilizing completely different DM settings, will likely be investigated. This provides Improved intelligence on boundaries to BB advantages and goal improved efficiency of HAs customers in complicated listening environments.

Casual scholarship enquiries from candidates to potential supervisors – previous to the appliance deadline – are warmly inspired; please direct these to the related member/s of college workers.

Necessities

Analysis Discipline Different Training Stage Bachelor Diploma or equal

Analysis Discipline Medical sciences Training Stage Bachelor Diploma or equal

Abilities/{Qualifications}

Candidates should maintain an undergraduate diploma at 2.1 degree and a grasp’s diploma. Alternatively, candidates with a UK top notch honours diploma (or Non-UK equal as outlined by Swansea College) not holding a grasp’s diploma, will likely be thought of on a person foundation. Please observe that you could be want to offer proof of your English Language proficiency.

Particular Necessities

Resulting from funding restrictions, this scholarship is open to candidates eligible to pay tuition charges on the UK charge solely, as outlined by .

Extra Info

Advantages

This scholarship covers the total price of UK tuition charges and an annual stipend of £18,622.

Extra analysis bills may even be accessible.

Eligibility standards

Candidates should maintain an Higher Second Class (2.1) honours diploma. In case you are eligible to use for the scholarship (i.e. a pupil who’s eligible to pay the UK charge of tuition charges) however don’t maintain a UK diploma, you may examine our comparability entry necessities. Please observe that you could be want to offer proof of your English Language proficiency.

Alternatively, candidates with a UK top notch honours diploma (or Non-UK equal as outlined by Swansea College) not holding a grasp’s diploma, will likely be thought of on a person foundation.

Resulting from funding restrictions, this scholarship is open to candidates eligible to pay tuition charges on the UK charge solely, as outlined by .

Choice course of

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Work Location(s)

Variety of presents accessible 1 Firm/Institute Swansea College Nation United Kingdom Geofield

The place to use Web site

Contact State/Province

Swansea Metropolis

Swansea Web site

Avenue

Singleton Park Postal Code

SA2 8PP

STATUS: EXPIRED

Anticipated wage

£18622 per 12 months

Location

Swansea

Job date

Fri, 12 Jan 2024 06:13:52 GMT

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