Hearing aids for music: Exploring the music listening behaviour of people with hearing impairments Seminar
- Time:
- 12:00 - 13:00
- Date:
- 3 November 2015
- Venue:
- 13/ 3017
Event details
Hearing and Balance Centre Seminars
Music is an important part of people’s lives which can have significant health and wellbeing benefits, including for those with mild, moderate, severe or even profound deafness. However little is known about the music listening experiences of this subset of the population because existing studies have focused on ‘normally’ hearing participants. There has been more active research in the last decade on the perception of music using cochlear implants than there has been for HAs, despite there being roughly 100 times more users of HAs. A newly-funded AHRC-funded project (Feb 2015 – Jan 2018) ‘Hearing Aids for Music’ explores how music listening behaviour is shaped by deafness, hearing impairments and the use of hearing aid (HA) technology. This seminar will a) discuss the results of the first project study, a clinical questionnaire among HA users exploring the extent of problems with music listening, whether this affects their quality of life, and whether they have discussed music listening this with their audiologist; b) outline how the insights gained will inform an interview study investigating HA users’ musical experiences in greater depth; and c) discuss the broader implications and applications of the research.
Speaker information
Dr Alinka Greasley, University of Leeds. Alinka Greasley was appointed to the position of Lecturer in Music Psychology at Leeds in 2009 having studied at Aston University (BSc in Human Psychology), and completed her doctorate (PhD in Psychology of Music) at Keele University. Her expertise lies in the field of music psychology in which she uses different theoretical approaches (e.g. positivist, constructivist) and research methodologies (quantitative, qualitative) to explore people’s everyday musical behaviour across time and in naturally occurring contexts. She is an expert on the subjects of musical preferences and listening behaviour, and her current research focuses on the music listening behaviour of people with hearing impairments (musicandhearingaids.org). She is also a violinist, pianist and drum ‘n’ bass DJ.