Prof Carl Verschuur BA, MSc, PhD, RCS (Registered Clinical Scientist)

Professorial Fellow (Enterprise), Director of University of Southampton Auditory Implant Service

Carl Verschuur is Director of the University of Southampton Auditory Implant Service (USAIS), an enterprise unit within Engineering and Physical Sciences. USAIS provides specialised clinical services to people from around the South of England who need a cochlear implant, other types of surgical hearing prostheses, or specialist services in Auditory Processing Disorder and other specialised forms of hearing assessment.

My research and clinical management work are aimed at maximising individual’s ability to conserve and use whatever hearing they have.

Visit http://ais.southampton.ac.uk/  for more details of the service. Prior to his current position, he has held clinical scientist, clinical management and academic roles in the area of audiology in Southampton and Liverpool and was most recently Programmes Director for Audiology programmes in the University of Southampton. He initially graduated with a first class honours degree in Linguistics from University College London in 1989, from which he developed a career-long interest in acoustic and clinical phonetics. He graduated with an MSc in Audiology in 1992 and a PhD in 2007, both from the University of Southampton.