Hearing Researchers Archives - Hearing Practitioner Australia

ACAud inc. HAASA president, Adelaide audiologist Kylie Dicieri, perusing the new handbook. Image: Kylie Dicieri.

Guidelines

ACAud launches Best Practice Handbook for hearing care clinicians

July 7, 2026

ACAud inc. HAASA has launched its first comprehensive Best Practice Handbook which it says is a practical resource to support...

Speakers at the free awards webinar are, from left, Passe & Williams Foundation grants and finance manager Keira Mason-Hill, and board directors Professor Robert Black OAM and Professor Mary Wlodek. Images: Passe & Williams Foundation.

ENT/otolaryngologists

Passe & Williams Foundation award round opens for ENT fellowships

by Helen Carter

June 26, 2026

The next Passe & Williams Foundation award round for the 2027 financial year will offer three fellowships and a scholarship...

2026 Merkin Prize Laureates, Prof Graeme Clark, Prof Erwin Hochmair, Dr Ingeborg Hochmair (top row, left to right), Prof Michael Merzenich, and Prof Blake Wilson (bottom row, left to right). Images: The University of Melbourne, MED-EL, Posit Science, Duke University School of Medicine and the Broad Institute.

Cochlear implants

Cochlear implant pioneers awarded Merkin Prize in Biomedical Technology

by Helen Carter

June 18, 2026

Five eminent scientists and engineers have been jointly awarded a prestigious biomedical technology prize for developing the modern cochlear implant....

Research

Dr Pramod Dorishetty receives travel award grant for inner ear repair research

by Helen Carter

June 1, 2026

Research scientist, Dr Pramod Dorishetty, has received a travel grant to further his work on the development of advanced biomaterials...

Dr Sai Praveen Haranath, chief physician and innovation officer Apollo Health Axis, left, and Adjunct Associate Professor Dr David Sly, chief operating officer of research at Ear Science Institute Australia at the Gift of Hearing event. Image: Ear Science Institute Australia.

Gene therapy

Ear Science Institute Australia partners with Apollo Hospitals India on genomic solutions

by Helen Carter

June 1, 2026

Ear Science Institute Australia has announced a new partnership with Apollo Hospitals India to advance genomic solutions for inherited hearing...

Tinnitus

Study identifies those most at risk of developing tinnitus; details changes over time

by Helen Carter

April 14, 2026

A study in Australian baby boomers has provided insights into who is most at risk of developing tinnitus and how...

The study provided valuable new insight into how hearing declined with age, particularly within the brain rather than the ear. Image: Irina/stock.adobe.com.

Research

Low-dose aspirin shows no benefit for central hearing decline in older adults

by Helen Carter

April 11, 2026

Melbourne researchers have found that daily low-dose aspirin does not slow deterioration in central auditory pathway degeneration and presbycusis despite...

(From left) McGovern Institute professor of brain and cognitive sciences Josh McDermott with graduate student Ian Griffith in the speaker array room where they conducted the study. Image: Steph Stevens.

Research

Scientists show how the brain handles “the cocktail party problem”

by Helen Carter

March 31, 2026

Using a computational model, neuroscientists have showed how the brain can selectively focus attention on one voice among others in...

Top row (from left) Dr Amy Szarkowski, Adam Mennella, Mona Zabeti and Yashaswini Shivegowda. Bottom row (from left) Emma Russell, Lisa Singer, and Ashleigh Cowan. Images: NextSense, GN, Hearing Implants Australia and Cochlear.

Hearing Careers

People on the Move – Feb-Mar 2026 edition

by Helen Carter

March 20, 2026

Hearing Practitioner Australia's bi-monthly bulletin to keep the Australian hearing sector updated on new appointments and personnel changes, nationally and globally....