Deafness Research UK is sponsoring the Recent Advances in Paediatric Audiology (RAPA) symposium, to be held on 15th March 2010 to coincide with the National Knowledge Week for Hearing.

'A Modern Approach to Noise-Induced Hearing Loss from Military Operations' brought together interested parties from the armed forces, the NHS, academic research and the voluntary sector to share and update knowledge of the science relevant to noise induced hearing loss and the practical problems faced during military operations.

The Deafness Research UK Pauline Ashley Prize 2010 has been awarded to Nick Leach, a PhD student at the University of Oxford, for his highly commended and ongoing research into how the hearing brain adapts to different sounds.

Call for applications – Closing date: Thursday 22nd October 2009

Deafness Research UK held a groundbreaking children’s audiology forum on 16th March at the New Connaught Rooms in London. Recent advances in paediatric audiology (RAPA) was the first of what is hoped will become an annual event to mark National Knowledge Week for Hearing.

The National Biomedical Research Unit in Hearing was launched today in Nottingham.

Last month saw the annual British Society of Audiology (BSA) Short Papers Meeting of Experimental Studies on Hearing and Deafness. The UK’s hearing research community descended on the Psychology Department at the University of York for two days of talks, poster presentations and catching-up with the latest experimental data.

The Deafness Research UK Pauline Ashley Prize 2009 has been awarded to Rosemary Lovett, a third year Psychology PhD student at the University of York.

Deafness Research UK has re-vamped its travel award scheme in order to make the application process more straightforward.

Competition for this year's vacation scholarships was extremely tough and Deafness Research UK is very pleased to announce that this year’s awards will go to four highly promising young students.

This year's Pauline Ashley Prize has been awarded to Dr Lucy Anderson, a junior postdoctoral researcher working at University College London's Ear Institute.

The Pauline Ashley Prize 2007 has been awarded to Sam Irving, a young researcher at the MRC Institute for Hearing Research in Nottingham, who is looking for the region of the brain that helps us to hear someone in a noisy place, such as a party or bar, and is responsible for 'training' the brain to hear better in these situations.

A Cambridge student developing a new technique to fine-tune hearing aids in young children has won the 2006 Pauline Ashley Prize.