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As Noise Action Week winds up, IOA are highlighting how a career in acoustics shapes the sound of our world and action to manage noise impacts us every day
If you've landed on this page, and are not yet an acoustician, the IOA have been highlighting the value of a career in the fascinating science of acoustics throughout this Noise Action Week. If you are an acoustician, you know that working in acoustics offers the opportunity to improve the quality of our lives and make a positive difference to people. From enabling people to hear each other in busy places, designing loudspeakers, liaising with architects on the acoustics of buildings, to understanding the effects on whales and dolphins of the sound of human activity in the oceans, acoustics offers diverse ways to make your contribution count. Working in the world of sound opens up opportunities, in a career that mixes people, science and engineering, across all aspects of daily living. Acoustics is all around you − in the voices of your friends and family, in the music you listen to, the car you drive (or hear) or the bus or train you use. Professional acousticians work in a huge variety of fields – from the design of a recording studio or smart phone audio apps to environmental and workplace noise measurement and control, and from the assessment of wind farm noise to car and jet engine design. Acousticians come from all sorts of backgrounds and interests – architecture, music, environmentalists - but all share a love problem solving and improving the sound of our world.
Find out more about a career in acoustics - IOA Careers Supplment 2025.pdf
How a career in acoustics shapes the sound of our world | The Institution of Environmental Sciences: The IES
This week noise proved to be a cross party issue as written questions on noise and health, drones and railways from MPs from three parties were answered
European Commission urged to treat noise pollution as a core public health, environmental and productivity issue
Webinars from last weeks' Noise Action Week - covering noise and health, a day in the life of an acoustician, the impact of electric buses and pubs and clubs best practice now online
New research on travel attitudes in Wales finds no change in number of respondents bothered by noise outside their homes
A report commissioned by the Department for Business and Industrial Strategy to look at assessment of noise from onshore wind farms is now published.
The Welsh Government are consulting on changes to permitted development rights including air source heat pumps(ASHP).
As part of their ongoing enquiry into the impact of airport expansion on climate and nature targets, the Environmental Audit Committee will be taking oral evidence tomorrow - Wednesday May 14th.
The Government are seeking views on proposals for changes to the planning process for national infrastructure projects.
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