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The accidental audiologist

In this article we hear from Muhammed Ayas, an “accidental” audiologist applying his transferable skills as a clinician, academic, and researcher through trying and testing innovative approaches in audiology to better serve the community. My audiology journey began 22 years...

Andreas Wagner: ESPO 2025 keynote speaker

The keynote speaker for ESPO 2025 in Stuttgart is renowned evolutionary biologist and author Professor Andreas Wagner, from Zurich. Prof Wagner will focus on the congress theme of ‘Innovation’, giving us his unique perspective on how evolution drives human creativity....

ENT Surgical Hackathon

Rana Tahoun, CST2, Northwest Deanery, UK An ENT hackathon? Not two things you expect to read in the same sentence! It was actually the first time it ever happened, and it was open to all ENT surgeons and aspiring surgeons....

Where Art meets Science (and earplugs): a tale of acoustics, aesthetics and audiology

For the fifth cover in the Art meets Science series, we celebrate not only the fusion of audiology and art, but also friendship, nature and the kind of collaboration that reaches far beyond the clinic walls. My colleague and dear...

Migration and training: a British-Nigerian surgeon’s perspective

Less than 4% of doctors on the UK’s medical register describe their ethnicity as African or part African, yet there are myriad driving forces behind the migration of medical trainees from Africa to the UK and other developed countries. Ekpemi...

Audiology in this issue...Amplification 2019

Gareth Smith, MSc, AuD, Consultant Clinical Scientist (Audiology), Southend University Hospital, UK. E: Gareth.Smith@southend.nhs.uk In previous areas of the Audiology Features Section, this theme would have been called ‘Hearing Aids’. With the increased interest in ‘over-the-counter’ or ‘direct-to-consumer’ devices, we...

Monika Matusiak given associate professorship by World Hearing Centre

The World Hearing Centre of the Institute of Physiology and Pathology of Hearing, Warsaw, Poland is now eligible to award an academic degree and the first nominee to receive such promotion is Dr Monika Matusiak.

Basic Concepts of Clinical Electrophysiology in Audiology

Signal averaging principles have been around since 1875, but their application in medicine to enhance biologic signals was first made in 1947 for improved detection of electroencephalographic signals. It took a few more years until the first electrophysiological studies were...

Climate change and global health

As we put together the Editors’ Choice for Jul/Aug 2022 Journal Reviews, news from a meeting of the G7 energy and environment ministers has been shared that the G7 countries are to stop public funding of any overseas fossil fuel...

Chronic rhinosinusitis update

There is still a lack of awareness of chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) despite its burden, calling for events such as the recent Global Chronic Rhinosinusitis with Nasal Polyps (CRSwNP) Awareness Day. Research findings from recent publications by Backaert et al have...

A faster way to manage patients with swallowing disorders with enhanced role of speech and language therapists

Allied health professionals (AHPs) make up the third largest clinical workforce in the NHS. They represent a diverse group of registered professions who play a vital role in the health service, working across various settings and with all age groups....

What Plug?

For decades, audiologists have encouraged people to wear hearing protection when they attend concerts. Traditionally, the most accessible options have been foam plugs, which have limited appeal due to their poor sound quality. Disposable foam plugs absorb high frequency sounds...