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PhD Auditory and Visual Neurophysiology. Postdoctoral research fellow working on clinical research projects covering a number of areas of hearing research.

Joined July 2020
*Celebrating 🍾💫 Congratulations to colleague @PollyScutt medical statistician at @UoNHearSci who has passed her PhD viva today! She looked into approaches used in randomised controlled trials in Pt with or at risk of dementia orcid.org/0000-0002-4326-311… Congrats Dr Scutt🎉 @UoN_STU
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Have you seen hands-on signing in practice? Leanne is deafblind and uses it with her partner, Guy. This #DeafblindAwarenessWeek, watch how she places her hands over Guy's to follow what's being communicated through touch and movement. 👐
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Rainbow corridor…. Illuminating. @nottmhospitals @efmatnuh #pride 🌈
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The move to remote working was a big adjustment, but it presented extra challenges for deaf people and people with hearing loss. Here are some tips from RNID's @RebekahMcKinst1 and @JesalVishnuram to make your meetings more accessible, via @CharityComms. charitycomms.org.uk/how-to-m…
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Auditory cortical plasticity after cochlear implantation in asymmetric hearing loss (Karoui et al, 2022) bit.ly/3OkAD8C @CHUdeToulouse @CORTEXjournal Cochlear implant enables reconstruction of the cortical mechanisms of spatial selectivity needed for sound localisation
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Do you know any 8-16 year olds with severe-to-profound hearing loss? They can be helping out @BEARS_CI bit.ly/3On4mhg this summer with an online survey & changing the future of those with bilateral cochlear implants!Register bit.ly/3Ot0Odx @sarahsomerset1 Pls RT
It's #worldhearingday today. @hearingnihr has been looking at single-sided deafness (SSD) and identifying which core outcomes should be measured and reported on in SSD treatment studies. More on @CROSSSD_ here: ow.ly/lk4B50I6MlK #safelistening #hearingcare
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The Core Rehabilitation Outcome Set for Single-Sided Deafness (CROSSSD) initiative is NIHR funded. We gathered opinions from healthcare users & professionals in the field of #SSD to agree on important measures to assess in clinical trials for #SSD interventions @NIHRresearch
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Systematic review of outcome domains and instruments reported by studies that evaluated rerouting / restoring interventions for #SSD in adults @hearingnihr >Findings emphasise the need to improve trial design and reporting in this area of health research trialsjournal.biomedcentral.…
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Can we predict tinnitus outcomes after cochlear implantation? (Dixon et al, 2019) bit.ly/3gllmDQ @OandNonline @Sunnybrook @UofT_OHNS @ihpmeuoft Influencing factors: >worse residual hearing >higher baseline tinnitus handicap
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Our international online survey is now open!🌍Please share with children and young people with #tinnitus who can spare 15-20 minutes to take part. Study information and survey link can be found in the thread below @BritishTinnitus @hearingnihr #audpeeps #tinnitusresearch (1/6)
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Our @MedicineUoN expert and very talented facilitators & team @DebHallNBRUH @Derek_J_Hoare @FackrellKathryn @HorobinAdele @padraig_hearing have been working very hard in the background to convert our consensus meeting from face-to-face to a successful virtual gathering #ThankYou!
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Survey for #clinicians working with children with #DLD! Your answers will help us design better clinical tools! All answers are anonymous and confidential! Follow the link: nottingham.onlinesurveys.ac.… #devlangdis #SLT #LANGUAGE
How #stressed are you? Take part in #research about #stress and #hearing aura-study.co.uk/ THANKS and PLEASE RETWEET @NottmBRC @UoNHearSci @ActionOnHearing @HearingLink @roukat 🦻🦻👂👂
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Interested in how your child's behaviour relates to their speech and language ability? If so and your child is aged 4-6 years and is a bilateral CI user OR has normal hearing, you can take part in our ongoing behaviour and language study FROM HOME! #researchingsafelydespiteCOVID
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Replying to @hearingnihr
Want to help with #research? We want to know about #hearing #deaf #deafness and #stress. We need all people with and without #hearingloss or #Deaf aura-study.co.uk THANK YOU & PLEASE RETWEET @NottmBRC @UoNHearSci @ActionOnHearing @HearingLink @roukat @AuditorySally
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