Professor Cynthia Morton, Programme Lead for Genetic and Genomic Solutions, discusses her project to expand newborn hearing screening to include genetic screening for variants in genes known to cause deafness.
In his blog Christopher Armitage, Professor of Health Psychology and Manchester BRC Optimising Outcomes Programme Lead, discusses hearing loss and its image problem.
Helen Whiston, Research Audiologist highlights how Manchester BRC and Manchester Clinical Research Facility are supporting the design of a new, quick, easy and robust speech-in-noise test for children.
The PONCHO (Prioritising Outcomes iN Childhood Hearing lOss) study is recruiting children and young people who have permanent hearing loss and who do not have a cochlear implant and parents/carers of children with hearing loss - to help shape future research.
Manchester BRC science explained at The Community Festival
Dr Piers Dawes, Hearing Health Minimising Risk Programme Lead discusses how Manchester BRC aims to help people with hearing problems have a better quality of life - by helping them to help themselves.
People with hearing loss are up to five times more likely to be affected by dementia than those without hearing loss. To try to understand this link, national charities have teamed up to invest more than £150,000 into a research project conducted by Manchester researchers.
Celebrating Deaf Awareness Week, and the 100 year anniversary of the Manchester Centre for Audiology and Deafness, Professor Kevin J Munro, Hearing Health Theme Lead, introduces a series of thought provoking blogs by our Manchester BRC Hearing Health researchers