Professor Michael Akeroyd
| Biography | I am Professor of Hearing Sciences at the University of Nottingham. Previously I did my PhD at the MRC Applied Psychology Unit in Cambridge, then postdocs at MRC IHR Nottingham, University of Connecticut Health Centre, and the University of Sussex before joining the Scottish Section of MRC /CSO Institute of Hearing Research, Glasgow in 2002 as a Programme Leader Track. I became the Section Director in Glasgow in 2008 then overall Director of MRC IHR in 2015 through its closure in 2018. I have around 100 peer-reviewed papers in hearing, mainly on topics of auditory impairment and disability, hearing aids, quality of life, spatial hearing, cross-talk cancellation and noise cancellation, psychophysics, speech perception, and fMRI neuroimaging. I was awarded the 2013 Thomas Simm Littler Prize of the British Society of Audiology, am a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America, past President of the International Collegium of Rehabilitative Audiology, and I was an Output Assessor for the REF Unit-of-Assessment #3. I currently hold research grants from the Medical Research Foundation and EPSRC, the latter including the Clarity, Cadenza and Cog-MHear projects. |
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| Research Interests | auditory impairment and disability; hearing aids; spatial hearing; prevalence and change in hearing loss; psychophysics |
| Teaching and Learning | I teach on the "Hearing Healthcare" optional module of the BMedSci degree and the "Auditory Systems" optional module of the Neuroscience degree |