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At Queen Margaret University we are committed to supporting our students, helping them to make the most of the opportunities available and ensuring they have the best possible learning experience during their time here.

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The Student Support fund

Grants from The Student Fund are designed to support specific student led projects, initiatives and activities, which can be demonstrated to have a positive benefit to the student, the university and the wider community – whether that be locally, nationally or internationally.

Stamatia Staikoudi, Graduate Diploma in Audiology Year 2, was able to attend an Audio Engineering Society Convention as a result of a grant from the STudent Fund, reported

“I would like to start by saying how grateful I am for being among the recipients of the QMU Student Fund. The money I received enabled me to attend the Audio Engineering Society annual European Convention, which took place in London for the first time after 23 years.

The Audio Engineering Society Conventions attract more than 10,000 attendees from all over the world every year and paper selection is very strict, with hundreds of paper submissions from audio professionals throughout the world being submitted each year.
I was therefore very pleased that our efforts with Chris Deplacido, my supervisor, were recognized, and our paper on the latest tinnitus research results, methods of diagnosis and management practices was accepted for the convention. My presentation was remarkably successful and attracted such a high interest that it had to be extended for half an hour and still did not manage to accommodate all questions from attendees.

Tinnitus has a very high prevalence among Audio Professionals due to their extensive and prolonged exposure to sound, and their reports and questions not only gave me an insight of the nature of tinnitus among them, but also helped me realize the quality of health services and support provided to those people, and the areas that Audiologists and tinnitus specialists need to try to improve. Additionally, attendees enquired about Queen Margaret University, its location and my academic experience there, and I was very happy to inform them that QMU was establishing itself as one of the most important higher education institutions in Health Sciences in Scotland, with a high level of academic work being performed there.

I also attended the Audio Engineering Society Hearing and Hearing Loss prevention Committee meeting of which I am a member, where we the progress in organising an Audio Engineering Society Conference dedicated to hearing and hearing loss prevention. The dates for this convention have not been set yet, but it will be happening during 2012.

Finally, I managed to attend several sessions on hearing aid technology and passed on feedback from patients so that engineers were informed and could work towards making the hearing aid experience more natural sounding and more effective for individuals that are hard of hearing.”