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Dr Hannah Domenica Semeraro BSc Audiology (hons), PhD Audiology

Lecturer in Audiology

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Hannah is a clinically trained researcher and lecturer in audiology at the Hearing and Balance Centre (HABC), University of Southampton.

Accurately measuring functional hearing ability in the workplace is important to ensure that employees have adequate hearing ability to do their job safely and effectively.

Hannah graduated from the University of Southampton with a BSc (hons) in Audiology in 2012. In 2016 Hannah completed her PhD, focussing on improving auditory fitness for duty assessment methods for military personnel. Hannah was appointed as a Lecturer in Audiology in 2016 and promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2018. Since 2018 Hannah has also been working part-time at as a Clinical Audiologist for Dorset Healthcare University NHS Foundation Trust.

She teaches on several undergraduate and postgraduate Audiology modules, including clinical skills, project supervision and placement assessment. As module coordinator for the module BSc module Biopsychosocial Basis of Audiology Hannah enjoys teaching students how to reflect on the experiences of hearing-impaired people beyond simply considering the changes to the auditory system.

Hannah is interested in speech in noise test development and using speech testing to tell us more about individual hearing ability than conventional pure tone testing. She is particularly interested in using speech testing to assess auditory fitness for duty and has supported the Ministry of Defence and College of Policing on this topic.

Hannah is registered with the Registration Council for Clinical Physiologists (RCCP) and is a member of the British Academy of Audiology (BAA).

BSc, Audiology, University of Southampton, 2012

PhD, University of Southampton, 2016

Research interests

Auditory fitness for duty

Occupational hearing loss

Measuring functional hearing ability in the workplace

The impact of hearing loss at work

Using in speech in noise to monitor ototoxicity

Speech in noise test development in different languages

PhD Supervision

Alkahtani, Rania. Completed March 2020. Screening for Hearing Loss in Preschool Children in Saudi Arabia: The Development of an Arabic Speech in-noise Test

Barker, Kerry. Started September 2018. Assessing AFFD for the UK Police Force. Started Sept 2018

Zuriekat, Margaret. Started September 2017. Hearing health care for hearing-impaired workers.

Alsebai, Sarah. Started April 2018. Speech-in-noise testing in Arabic, developing a hearing screening tool for children

Rawas, Iman. Started April 2018. Speech-in-noise testing in Arabic, developing a measure of auditory fitness for duty for the military in Saudi Arabia

Research group

Signal Processing, Audio and Hearing Group

UG and PGT Admissions Tutor for Audiology

Audiology BSc/ MSci Part 1 Lead

Stage 1 Appeals Officer for Faculty of Engineering and the Environment/ Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

UCL External Examiner, MSc Advanced Audiology

Clinical Audiologist (bank staff), Dorset Healthcare University NHS Foundation Trust, Bournemouth, UK

Title Module Code Programme Role
Biopsychosocial Basis of Audiology AUDI1012 BSc Audiology, Msci Audiology Module coordinator
Clinical and Professional Practice in Audiology 1 AUDI1011 BSc Audiology, Msci Audiology Module coordinator

Hannah is also;

Clinical practical teaching and assessment for BSc and MSc Audiology modules

Assessor for clinical placement

UG and PGT project supervision

BSc/ MSci Audiology Part 1 Lead

Dr Hannah Domenica Semeraro
Engineering, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton. SO17 1BJ United Kingdom

Room Number : 13/4007

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