Hearing Aids for Music
01 November 2016
'Hearing Aids for Music' aims to develop a better understand the music listening experiences of hearing aid users to inform future technologies and audiological processes. HA technologies have been developed primarily to process and amplify speech yet music plays an important role in many peoples' lives. Currently 1 in 7 of the population uses HAs and this is expected to increase to 1 in 5 by 2035 as a consequence of young peoples listening habits and an ageing population.
Keywords
Ethical approval
This research has received ethical clearance from the University of Leeds Research Ethics Committee (PVAR 15-039) and is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AH/M00368X/1).
About the researcher
The project team: Dr Alinka Greasley ,(PI)* Dr Harriet Crook (CI)^ and Dr Jackie Salter (PDRF)* are based at *Univerisy of Leeds and Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
Visit our website for further information.
