Acoustics

Public engagement

We have been involved in numerous projects engaging school children, families and the general public. Our aim is to make people more aware of acoustic science and understand how acoustic engineering can improve their sonic environment.        

Our extensive resources to support the teaching of sound within schools and colleges are available on our Science Resources for Schools and Colleges website; these resources include:        

  • Lesson starters.
  • Career profiles.
  • More sounds amazing – A level curriculum materials.         
  • Resources for hands-on acoustic activities in science centres and schools.

Other projects have included:        

  • Inventive Podcast: Engineering Stories Mixing Fact and Fiction
  • Building acoustics engagement: a touring, singing sculpture
  • The search for the worst sound in the world – web and museum experiment            
  • Sound Around You (IMPRINtS) – Surveying soundscapes using mobile phones
  • Sound Matters – a range of PE activities mainly for 9-19 year olds            
  • Personal digistories about what inspired people to study engineering

Staff regularly appear on TV and radio responding to news stories on sound. Trevor Cox has presented many BBC Radio 4 documentaries such as The Physicist’s Guide to the Orchestra, Giving Up Music for Lent and Green Ears. Trevor Cox has written for The Guardian, New Scientist and National Geographic. He has written two popular science books on sound for the general public.

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Contact: Trevor Cox at t.j.cox@salford.ac.uk.