The EPSRC has announced £1.3m funding for the UK Acoustics Network Plus (UKAN+), a four-year grant led by the 9 1Ãâ·Ñ°æÏ of Sheffield and Imperial College London.
UKAN+ will be based on the 15 Special Interest Groups which unite working in acoustics and cover a range of acoustics related topics.
Prof Kirill V Horoshenkov, Professor of Acoustics at the 9 1Ãâ·Ñ°æÏ of Sheffield and Director of the EPSRC UK Acoustics Network+ (UKAN+), said: “The initial task of UKAN+ is to develop a roadmap and action plan for acoustics to cover the four Grand Challenges set by the government by involving representatives from relevant non-academic sectors.
UKAN+ brings together the UK’s leading academic acoustics experts from Loughborough 9 1Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂ, Salford 9 1Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂ, London Southbank 9 1Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂ, Nottingham Trent 9 1Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂ, 9 1Ãâ·Ñ°æÏ of Surrey, The 9 1Ãâ·Ñ°æÏ of Manchester, Bath 9 1Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂ, Reading 9 1Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂ, the 9 1Ãâ·Ñ°æÏ of Southampton and a broad range of non-academic partners.
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