{"id":1686,"date":"2025-11-17T15:47:49","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T15:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/all-ears\/?p=1686"},"modified":"2025-11-18T08:05:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T08:05:07","slug":"meeting-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/all-ears\/2025\/11\/17\/meeting-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Meeting 17"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns alignwide is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover alignwide has-background-color has-text-color has-link-color has-crete-round-font-family wp-elements-51a06115925bf3907a70e43980b0d22c\" style=\"min-height:350px;aspect-ratio:unset;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1709\" height=\"2560\" class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-1399\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/all-ears\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/455\/2024\/11\/gaelle-marcel-f9J5L_2u-I0-unsplash-scaled.jpg\" data-object-fit=\"cover\" srcset=\"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/all-ears\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/455\/2024\/11\/gaelle-marcel-f9J5L_2u-I0-unsplash-scaled.jpg 1709w, https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/all-ears\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/455\/2024\/11\/gaelle-marcel-f9J5L_2u-I0-unsplash-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/all-ears\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/455\/2024\/11\/gaelle-marcel-f9J5L_2u-I0-unsplash-684x1024.jpg 684w, https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/all-ears\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/455\/2024\/11\/gaelle-marcel-f9J5L_2u-I0-unsplash-768x1150.jpg 768w, https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/all-ears\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/455\/2024\/11\/gaelle-marcel-f9J5L_2u-I0-unsplash-1025x1536.jpg 1025w, https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/all-ears\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/455\/2024\/11\/gaelle-marcel-f9J5L_2u-I0-unsplash-1367x2048.jpg 1367w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1709px) 100vw, 1709px\" \/><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-background-background-color has-background-dim-0 has-background-dim\"><\/span><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-left has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-e5ae5e79fb6dcee22e1f7992fdbb3634\" style=\"font-size:60px\">Meeting 17<\/h2>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns alignwide is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">Thursday 23, October 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We started the meeting by welcoming everyone to our 17<sup>th<\/sup> group meeting in a new location \u2013 the University of Southampton Auditory Implant Service (USAIS).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The meeting objectives were to:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol style=\"list-style-type:lower-alpha\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Discuss the service development project with Lina, a specialist speech and language therapist at USAIS.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Discuss the findings from the evaluation.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Discuss the RESTORE project with Nathan.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Discuss research project updates.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>After the meeting \u2013 a tour of USAIS.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>For the first activity, Lina Hansard introduced herself and talked about the work she is doing to improve the older adult patient pathway at USAIS. She discussed how she is gathering feedback from various stakeholders and is keen to find out what patients of the service and audiology service users think.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Group members were asked to share their thoughts on the following questions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1. What would you say are 3 things (or more) your audiology\/CI service is doing well to support you with your hearing loss and equipment. What 3 (or more) things are lacking, needs improvement?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2. What would you want from your audiology service to support you as you age\/get older?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Next, we moved onto activity 2 which was to discuss findings from the evaluation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From the analysis of the data from the evaluation, we have been able to identify areas that are working well and areas that require improvement from both the group member\u2019s <strong>and<\/strong> researcher\u2019s perspective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The group were asked to get into four groups and were each given a table that outlined these findings and were asked to come up with actions for how we could either continue to do well or to make improvements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Areas that are working well (From group member\u2019s questionnaire)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Areas for improvement (From group member\u2019s questionnaire)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Areas that are working well (From researcher\u2019s questionnaire)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Areas for improvement (From researcher\u2019s questionnaire)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>We had a great discussion about what is working well and what could be improved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We paused for a well-deserved coffee and cake break.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Next, Nathan Walker, an ENT surgical registrar and PhD researcher joined us virtually to talk about the RESTORE project and to get feedback from the group. RESTORE is a research project which aims to imrpove diagnosis, treatement and support fot childtern with Widened Vestibular Aqueduct (WVA) to foster betteer outcomers and quality of life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Next, we were joined by Prof Nicci Campbell who came to give an update about the study \uf0e0 <em>Unilateral and bilateral CI outcomes in adults:<br>Real-world hearing and user experience. Nicci wanted to <\/em><em>thank and congratulate all at ALL_EARS@UoS on the very valuable work we do.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kate thanked the group for attending and closed the meeting so the group could have a tour of USAIS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" data-id=\"1689\" src=\"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/all-ears\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/455\/2025\/11\/IMG_0946-23-10-25-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1689\" srcset=\"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/all-ears\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/455\/2025\/11\/IMG_0946-23-10-25-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/all-ears\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/455\/2025\/11\/IMG_0946-23-10-25-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/all-ears\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/455\/2025\/11\/IMG_0946-23-10-25-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/all-ears\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/455\/2025\/11\/IMG_0946-23-10-25-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/all-ears\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/455\/2025\/11\/IMG_0946-23-10-25-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Nathan Walker, an ENT surgical registrar and PhD researcher working with Tracey joined us from Manchester. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns alignwide is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-right is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-d445cf74 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button has-custom-font-size has-small-font-size\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-primary-background-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/all-ears\/\">Return to our home page<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday 23, October 2025 We started the meeting by welcoming everyone to our 17th group meeting in a new location \u2013 the University of Southampton Auditory Implant Service (USAIS). 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