News releases

A managing director from Surrey showed he is the boss in more ways than one

World's Largest Ear visits its friends in the north

National charity Deafness Research UK will visit engineering company Laing O'Rourke in Bristol on 18 May for a day of hearing screening for employees. Sponsored by BUPA and the BIG Lottery Fund, the charity's experts will deliver screenings plus fun information about good ear health.

National charity Deafness Research UK's award winning Bionic Ear roadshow will visit Wigmore High School on 17 May from 10.30 to 11.30am to deliver a fun, interactive performance, designed to emphasise the importance of ear protection and ensure hearing health messages do not fall on deaf ears.

With 74 days and counting to the London Olympics, Deafness Research UK's Information and Outreach Advisor is preparing to carry the torch

Less than £1.50 spent per capita on deafness research is woefully inadequate

Corporate partnership set to put hearing loss message top of the team sheet

In a keynote Stakeholder event at the BT Tower at 7pm on Wednesday 9 May, Colin Morris, CEO of the Crystal Palace Football Club Foundation, will announce an exciting new joint partnership between the football club and national charity Deafness Research UK.

Groundbreaking research and free advice and support continues to impact on millions of lives, says national charity Deafness Research UK in its Review published today.

"It was with great sadness that we learned today of the death of the charity's co-founder and President, Lord (Jack) Ashley of Stoke.

Belfast beckons for the "World's Largest Ear"

"Shameful" treatment of tinnitus patients must end

Andrew spiralled into a period of depression and isolation as he struggled to cope with the persistent, permanent noises in his head: he had tinnitus.

Bexley Lip Reading Group is set to make it a happy New Y-ear with the arrival of the Bionic Ear Show, on 25 and 26 January.

Deafness Research UK scientist welcomes latest findings

Extraordinary man has completed three marathons in a year

Deafness Research UK received a welcome £1,500 boost recently

Mother thought Summer was just having trouble settling in, not realising the underlying problem was with her young daughter's hearing

Joshua is now two and still not able to say the word 'mummy'

Hyperacusis almost ends musician's career

Scientist, Dr Bob Carlyon from the Medical Research Council in Cambridge, has signed up to cycle from London to Brighton on 11 September, hoping to raise as much as he can for Deafness Research UK.

Deafness Research UK is pleased to announce funding of two fellowships in the laboratory of Professor Brian Moore at Cambridge University.

UCL Ear Institute in London is conducting an ethics approved research study funded by Deafness Research UK to investigate the genetic causes of otosclerosis. 

Safety conscious manufacturer, Luxfer Gas Cylinders, has lined up a visit for their Nottingham employees from the award-winning Bionic Ear Show.

The festivals are alive with the sound of music. Enjoy the Music, but look after your hearing too, warns national charity Deafness Research UK

The results of research supported by Deafness Research UK have been published in one of the most prestigious peer reviewed journals, Nature Neuroscience.

Deafness Research UK is delighted to announce funding for seven new small project grants, following our recent Trustees meeting. They include projects in tinnitus, improving cochlear implants, central auditory processing and the molecular biology of hearing.

Dr. Phillip Gander of the NIHR National Biomedical Research Unit in Hearing, Nottingham has been awarded the Deafness Research UK’s 2011 Pauline Ashley Prize.

In 2009, Deafness Research UK introduced a new annual PhD Studentship award. Two awards were made early in 2010 following our competitive review process. We are pleased to announce that two new promising students have embarked on a career in hearing research.

Do you struggle to hear properly, even with hearing aids fitted? If you are one of the two million people in the UK who uses a hearing aid and still struggles to hear, hope may be on the horizon. A pioneering new project funded by Deafness Research UK is leading to a greater understanding of why hearing aids do not work for everyone as well as they should. The project is developing a new test for the hard of hearing via the latest research - exposing the secrets of dead regions of the cochlea.