Hearing Industry Research Consortium

The purpose of the Hearing Industry Research Consortium is to develop and direct a non-competitive, mutually agreed upon research agenda that benefits the hearing aid industry, its customers, and end-users.

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Here’s How We Pursue Our Purpose

Identify

Identifying non-competitive research topics, initiating requests for proposals (RFPs) in topic areas, and funding appropriate proposals

Support

Supporting Educational Initiatives (e.g. research conferences)

Create

Co-authoring Research Consortium position papers and conference presentations

Who We Are

Andrew Dittberner

Brent Edwards

Graham Naylor

Joel Beilin

Lars Sunesen

Stefan Launer

Latest News

Announcing the First IRC Grant Recipients (5/17/2013) - The Hearing Industry Research Consortium (IRC) is excited to announce the results of its first public Request For grant Proposals (RFP). Piers Dawes, Ph.D, Research Fellow at the University of Manchester, and Andrea Pittman, Ph.D., Associate Professor at Arizona State University, were selected to each receive $150,000 for their research proposals that are aimed to [...]
Worldwide Hearing Industry Research Consortium Announced (9/4/2012) - $300,000 Grant to be Awarded to Winning Proposal on Interaction of Cognition and Hearing Aids The hearing industry’s largest manufacturers have collaborated to create the Hearing Industry Research Consortium (IRC) to develop and direct a non-competitive, mutually agreed upon research agenda benefitting the hearing aid industry, its customers and end users. As its first act, [...]
Industry Research Consortium has a new website (7/11/2012) - The hearing industry research consortium has a new website to support industry-wide research initiatives.

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Recent Requests for Proposals

Download and read the Request for Proposal document.

After reading the RFP document, please download and fill out the IRC Research Grant Application Form and email it to us.

	Request For Proposals 2012.doc.doc	45.5 KB
	Research Grant Application Form 2012.doc.doc	72.5 KB

Contact Us

If you have any questions or need to get in touch, use the form below or email us.

contact@hearingirc.com