Announcing the 2023 Grant Recipients
In response to the RFP 2023 on "Indirect benefits of hearing-aids: psychosocial, functional or physical improvements" IRC received 18 great project proposals. This is a significant increase in applications compared to the previous years.
It is one of the goals of IRC to identify these under-studied domains in the field of Audiology, this year focusing on the broader dimensions of hearing rehabilitation that hearing care professionals face in daily practice.
The IRC is now pleased to announce the decision to fund:
- "The WHAM study - Wellbeing effects of Hearing Aid use and Mediation through improved hearing ability" led by Prof. Sophia Kramer, VUMC Amsterdam, Netherlands.
- "Enhancing Mobility in Older Adults with Age-Related Hearing Loss: The Impact of Hearing Aid Use on Conscious Movement Processing, Fall-Related Anxiety, and Visuomotor Control" led by Assistant Professor Razan Al Fakir, Auburn University, Alabama, US.
The projects started mid 2024, and we look forward to seeing the results and contributions from the project in the coming two years.
The IRC is once again very pleased to have received excellent proposals from globally leading researchers and sincerely appreciate the effort put into these proposals. We are pleased to stimulate the relevant research fields, both with potential funding, but also in providing topics of interest to the hearing industry and hearing research community, that consequently will lead to greater impact of the conducted research.