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On the 12 – 14 December a Hearing Hub Ideas – Hackathon was organised by the Machine Learning Group. The goal was to develop collaborations within the Australian Hearing Hub and across the University, generating grant applications and projects leading to innovative technologies in hearing

NAL studies how people hear and the impacts of hearing loss on people’s lives. Our goal is to improve hearing health and transform the lives of people with hearing difficulties, but we can’t do this without research participants. If you are over 18 years of

Child Language Lab PhD students Julien Millasseau and Rebecca Holt both competed in the Macquarie University rounds of the 3 Minute Thesis Competition. Rebecca won first prize and people’s choice award in the Department of Linguistics round, and Julien second in the Faculty-wide round, meaning

Child Language Lab researchers awarded the Dr Li Sze Lim mobility scholarship for project ‘Improving Child Hearing Health in China: Assessing Tone Acquisition by Children with Cochlear Implants’   Researchers from the Child Language Lab, Dr Nan Xu Rattanasone and PhD student Ping Tang, have

  15 experts from Macquarie University, National Acoustics Laboratories and The Royal Institute of Deaf and Blind Children came together to discuss collaborative project ideas in the area of ‘neurophysiological measures in hearing’.  The workshop was led by Jaime Undurraga Lucero,  Bram Van Dun and

Macquarie has teamed up to deliver a special science camp for children who are deaf or hard of hearing (DHH), giving them a chance to experience STEM in a more inclusive and exciting way.  A collaborative effort between Macquarie, Cochlear Limited, the Australian Hearing Hub,

Dr Celia Harris,Department of Cognitive Science, has recently been successful in applying for funding to lead a Faculty Research Centre for Scaffolding the Ageing Mind.  Understanding how cognition can be scaffolded by internal and external resources is increasingly important, especially with an ageing population. Across

Leading children’s charity, The Shepherd Centre, is launching a ground-breaking virtual reality (VR) experience that immerses the user in to a world of silence enabling them to feel first-hand what life is like for a child with hearing loss. The Shepherd Centre supports children with