The 2021 Annual AIHHP Hearing Expo

Many thanks to our Platinum Sponsors without whom, we would not be able to put on the

2021 AIHHP Hearing Expo!

As always, the Friday conference & exhibition is OPEN TO ALL who have an interest in audiology (with the Saturday being kept for AIHHP Executive & Full Members only.)

This year’s Hearing Expo is being held at the the stylish Hilton at St George’s Park, Burton upon Trent hotel, nestled in the National Forest and in the geographical centre of England. Located six miles west of Burton upon Trent and 35 miles from East Midlands Airport, the Hilton at St George’s Park is close to the M1, M6 and M42 motorway links. St George’s Park is home to all 24 England teams and an inspirational centre for coach education. With state-of-the-art conferencing, sport and medical facilities, the park has established itself as a world-class event and sporting venue.

Once again we have a tremendous line up of fantastic speakers with Royston Guest & Geoff Ramm delivering keynotes on growth and customer experience.

Royston Guest

CEO of Pathways Global & Founder of The Business Growth Pathway

ROYSTON IS ONE OF THE UK’S TOP CONFERENCE SPEAKERS ON BUSINESS GROWTH, LEADERSHIP & PEOPLE PERFORMANCE.

Royston’s expertise as a business strategist, executive coach and keynote speaker has been sought by an impressive list of teams and businesses including:

Rugby League World Cup 2021, DHL, Harrods, RAC, RBSI, The Guild of Property Professionals.

Geoff Ramm

… is the creator and author of Celebrity Service & Celebrity Service Superstars. He’s challenged and inspired audiences across 44 countries to create award winning ideas to outperform the competition.

Gabrielle (Gaby) Saunders, Senior Research Fellow

Manchester Centre for Audiology and Deafness (ManCAD) at the University of Manchester

Systematic reviews and anecdotal reports indicate a potential link between COVID-19 and audio vestibular damage. However, the quality of the evidence is generally low because studies lack control groups and rely on retrospective recall of symptoms. In her presentation at this years’ Hearing Expo, Gaby will briefly review the evidence and then present the findings from a survey in which she explored these issues in a survey on auditory and non-auditory symptoms over time.

Find more out about Gaby HERE

Helen Henshaw, PhD Senior Research Fellow,

NIHR Career Development Fellow

NIHR East Midlands CRN Specialty Lead for ENT

Vice Theme Lead (Hearing), NIHR Nottingham Biomedical Research Centre

Helen is presenting: Practice Listening and Understanding Speech (PLUS): co-development and usability of two novel Auditory-cognitive training programs for people with hearing loss

Professor Sophie Scott, CBE

Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, Centre for Human Communication, Division of Psychology & Language Sciences, UCL.

Professor Scott’s presentation at this years’ Hearing Expo is entitled:

‘Is hearing our social sense?’

We now have access to techniques that let us investigate how the healthy human brain processes sound and speech. These techniques, such as functional magnetic resonance imaging, reveal the anatomical systems recruited by different aspects of the perception of acoustic information. In this presentation, Sophie will discuss some of the general ways that the human brain deals with sound, address aspects of how this differs in the right and left sides of the brain, and whether this can tell is anything important in terms of hearing loss.

Sara Brewer

Let’s Talk About Mental Wealth…

Sarah will talk about investing to stay towards the top end of the mental health continuum and having positive wellbeing so that we feel positive about ourselves/our lives and feel able to cope with the typical stresses of life.