My paper "Interpreting Noise Nuisance Law: Challenges, Emerging Issues and the Need for Expanded Standards" has been published in Journal of Planning & Environment Law, full details on the writing page.
Friday, 16 May 2025
Monday, 23 October 2023
Science Museum Exhibit
short good news story - I am featured in the new Science Museum exhibit, "Turn it Up" which opened this week and runs until May 5th 2024. The exhibit features an video piece with me presented live from our Acoustics Research Center recording studios and presents our research on human responses to sound and music.
More info here: https://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/see-and-do/turn-it-up
Thursday, 21 September 2023
two new journal papers and a new book chapter
Sorry it's been ages hasn't it! I forget to update the news here sometimes.
New journal papers and book chapter over on the writing page.Also, new funded projects in an EPSRC TIDAL N+ project, and a KTP knowledge transfer project have now started working with the wonderful KP acoustics group.
Finally, our work featured in the Science Museum "TURN IT UP!" Exhibition is now travelling from the Manchester MOSI, to the London Science Museum, opening on 19th Oct through to 6 May 2024.
That's enough for now I think!
Cheers,
Duncan
Friday, 16 April 2021
New book chapter
I hope you are keeping OK in these strange times. I've got a publication announcement, a new chapter in the Cambridge Companion to Video Game Music, which you can check out on the writing pages of the site.
Hopefully some more normality soon!
Cheers,
Duncan
Tuesday, 20 October 2020
New open access journal paper (another one!)
Hi folks,
here.
Things are rather hectic at the moment so updates may be sparse between now and the end of term!
Thanks for stopping by,
Duncan
Thursday, 24 September 2020
New open-access journal paper
Hello,
along with my colleagues Victoria Williamson (University of Sheffield), George Fazekas (Queen Mary University of London), and Bruno Fazenda (University of Salford, of course!), we have a new journal paper exploring the use of heart-rate generated music to promote running. It's in the journal Sensors, and you can see the full reference on my writing pages.
I'm pleased to say the journal is open access, so free to read for anyone (the way research should be!). Term time is about to start, and in the current climate that means a lot more time working on our courses behind the scenes, so you might not hear from me for a while now, but thanks for stopping by!
Duncan
Wednesday, 22 July 2020
Virtual conferences and new book chapter

Secondly, I am pleased to have been able to contribute a (rather timely) chapter all about distance learning for audio engineers, to a new Routledge book, Audio Education, Theory culture and Practice
Details of all three are in the writing pages here of course.
That's it for now, with a bit of a summer break on the horizon!
Cheers,
Duncan