{"id":16954,"date":"2018-06-27T15:44:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-27T14:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hub.salford.ac.uk\/accessibleaudio\/?page_id=16954"},"modified":"2023-04-19T14:06:23","modified_gmt":"2023-04-19T13:06:23","slug":"the-researcher","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/hub.salford.ac.uk\/accessibleaudio\/the-researcher\/","title":{"rendered":"The Researcher"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11191\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11191\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11191\" src=\"http:\/\/hub.salford.ac.uk\/accessibleaudio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/80\/2017\/01\/MF_Lauren_Ward_1464-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hub.salford.ac.uk\/accessibleaudio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/80\/2017\/01\/MF_Lauren_Ward_1464-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/hub.salford.ac.uk\/accessibleaudio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/80\/2017\/01\/MF_Lauren_Ward_1464.jpg 566w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-11191\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Copyright Giselle Haber Photography<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">ABACus is Lauren Ward&#8217;s doctoral research project. Lauren Ward was a Postgraduate Researcher at the Acoustics Research Centre, University of Salford, UK. She is a General Sir John Monash Scholar, the 2018 recipient of the IET Leslie H Paddle Scholarship and finalist for the EPSRC &#8216;Connected Nation Pioneers&#8217; Award.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">She holds a B.Eng (Hons) and B.Phil from the University of Tasmania. She has previously worked with Cochlear Ltd, the ABC and most recently with the CSIRO developing speech recognition technology for the assessment of speech disorders in children. Her research interests also include science education and outreach.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>A full list of her publications can be found on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/profile\/Lauren_Ward2\">Researchgate<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can contact Lauren via:\u00a0<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><a href=\"mailto:L.Ward7@edu.salford.ac.uk\">Email<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/LaurenAWard\"><br \/>\nLinkedin<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thepengineer?lang=en-gb\">Twitter<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABACus is Lauren Ward&#8217;s doctoral research project. Lauren Ward was a Postgraduate Researcher at the Acoustics Research Centre, University of Salford, UK. 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