Hearing Sciences welcomes visiting PhD student from Denmark for placement
July 2026
Here at Hearing Sciences Scottish Section, we regularly host visiting PhD and postdoctoral researchers. These placements are a fantastic opportunity to foster international collaboration, advance exciting research, and enrich our academic community.
Most recently, we were delighted to host Kathrine Lowes, a PhD student from the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), for a productive 3-month placement in Glasgow.
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Responses to Listening Difficulty in Conversation
May 2026
We recently published a scoping review exploring how people respond to listening difficulty in in-person conversation. We examined 81 studies and found a wide array of both behavioural and affective responses exhibited by people with and without hearing loss, and by their communication partners.
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PhD success … conversation success
August 2025
Congratulations to Raluca Nicoras, who graduated with her PhD on 23 July 2025.
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Slow and steady wins the … : Younger adults may be faster at making semantic predictions, but older adults are more efficient
July 2025
When listening to speech, we often predict what comes next. As we hear “the singer plays the” we begin to predict that the next word is likely to be “guitar.” It’s a process that helps us understand what’s being said - as long as our prediction is correct.
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The Role of Comedy in Public Engagement: Lessons from Performing at the Cabaret of Dangerous Ideas
November 2024, from the HS-PrediCt Blog
The Cabaret of Dangerous Ideas (CoDi) combines academia, the general public, and stand-up comedy to promote outreach and engagement in research. Since 2013, CoDi has been part of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. During the event, academics are given approximately 20 minutes to present their research in an accessible way, accompanied by a talented stand-up comedian who adds a touch of humour. Following these presentations, there is a 40-minute session of audience interaction, including questions and discussion.
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Changing Mindsets - Public Engagement Event 2024
June 2024, from the HS-PrediCt Blog
What does it mean to experience your once perfect hearing deteriorate? They say you only realize the value of what you had once it’s lost. But we (clearly being wiser) say, let’s not wait to lose our hearing but instead, take better care of it now. What better opportunity to increase awareness about the importance of hearing health than on World Hearing Day, and who better to celebrate it with than our wonderful research participants with the valuable lived experiences of hearing impairment!
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Used to be a DIME, now a DOLLAR
April 2024, from the HS-PrediCt Blog
Does the marksman always take “careful AIM” or, in recent times, do they sometimes take “careful NOTES” instead? In re-examining statements from the 80s with listeners from today, this is just one of the differences we found from the Revised – Speech in Noise (R-SPiN) corpus (Bilger et al., 1984).
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All eyes on you – the wonderous world of Visual World Paradigm
October 2023, from the HS-PrediCt Blog
"The eyes, chico, they never lie" – Al Pacino might have been onto something when he said this iconic line back in 1983. Fast forward a few years and we had a research paradigm that used eye movement data, gaining popularity in the 1990s. I would like to take a moment to clarify that though Al Pacino emphasized the importance of considering what the eyes have to say, he had no role to play in this paradigm’s rise to fame. This paradigm, now known as the Visual World Paradigm, was pioneered by Cooper and by Tanenhaus and colleagues, and the use of this paradigm revolutionized the field of psycholinguistics.
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Hearing: Behind the Scenes - Public Engagement Event
April 2023, from the HS-PrediCt Blog
This year we had the honour of hosting the first of its kind ‘Hearing: Behind the Scenes’ public engagement event at the Hearing Sciences Scottish Section. It was not only a great opportunity for members of our lab to share the ‘behind the scenes’ of hearing research, but also a chance to recognize the valuable contributions of the very core of our research, our participants. We had a fantastic day filled with talks, photography and an exciting activity where we flipped the switch, inviting the audience to think like a researcher. This was the first session, and we hope to continue these events in the future.
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