Psychoacoustics

Psychoacoustics

Certificate Course in Soundscape Assessment

Learn to assess, analyse, and design soundscapes to enhance human and environmental wellbeing using ISO-compliant methods and soundscape principles.

Next start date: 31 July 2025

March/April 2025

The Acoustics Bulletin for March/April 2025 highlights the Institute of Acoustics' (IOA) initiatives, including progress towards chartered status, noise research projects, and the upcoming release of a new website. It also covers key topics such as the revised BS 8233 standard, the activities of the IOA's various groups, and news updates.

01 March 2025

Helen Davies
Helen Davies
04 February 2025
IOA Courses Update - March 2025

Forthcoming IOA Certificate Courses in 2025. Spring courses are filling up quickly.

David Yates
David Yates
19 October 2023
22nd October: International Stammering Awareness Day

This years’ International Stammering Awareness Day (ISAD) is being used by STAMMA to launch their latest campaign "Don’t Jump In"

Prof Alinka Greasley & Dr Scott Bannister
Prof Alinka Greasley & Dr Scott Bannister
05 June 2023
Listener panel: Online listening experiment to rate the sound quality attributes of musical samples

New research is being conducted as part of the Cadenza Project, which seeks to develop measures of audio quality for music for people with hearing loss.

IOA
IOA
22 May 2023
The making of the IOA Bulletin Video 3

The IOA continues to broaden its reach to the wider acoustics and acoustics-related communities as well as the public.

Vicky Wills
Vicky Wills
27 February 2023
IOA Secondary Schools' Competition 2023 - Acoustics & Ecology

I am an acoustic consultant and I think sound is really interesting, even after twenty years in the industry.

David Yates
David Yates
21 October 2022
22nd October: International Stammering Awareness Day

The theme of International Stammering Awareness Day (ISAD) this year is "being seen, being heard", which fits in neatly with the end of STAMMA’s No Diversity without Disfluency campaign

Matthew Robinson
Matthew Robinson
18 October 2022
October is Black History Month

October is Black History Month and this year’s theme ‘Action Not Words’

Vicky Wills
Vicky Wills
11 October 2022
Sounding out a future career? Architecture, Ocean Science, Music, and More - STEM Careers in Acoustics

Springpod & the IOA have partnered up to provide a programme that explores careers, specialisms and opportunities available to Y10 - 13 in acoustics. 

Susan Witterick
Susan Witterick
10 October 2022
ADHD Awareness Month

October is ADHD Awareness Month, so what is ADHD? ADHD stands for Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder, but this is something of a misnomer.

Jo Lacy
Jo Lacy
04 October 2022
This week is Dyslexia awareness week

It’s Dyslexia awareness week and there are a few things you should be aware of when it comes to dyslexia because there’s more to it than you may realise.