A journal article on Hybrid Teaching entitled: Hybrid flexible (HyFlex) seminar delivery – A technical overview of the implementation, authored by School of BEA PhD student Rodrigo Sanchez-Pinzani and co-authored by BEA Rodrigo supervisors Prof Steve Dance and Dr Gomez-Agustina; has been recently published on the prestigious Building and Environment journal.

Here is the download direct link to the article https://authors.elsevier.com/c/1epzR1HudN80O6

The link will be active only for few weeks. The authors hope you enjoy the read.

One of the few upsides of lockdown was that, if a nightingale sang in Berkeley Square, you had a chance of hearing it.

Take the UK-wide scheme called The Quiet Project, which enlisted a network of acoustic engineers and researchers to map out changes to the ambient soundscape during lockdown. It has been building up a database of sound measurements that should act as an invaluable resource for understanding our acoustic environment: how sound correlates with economic activity, say, and how it affects wellbeing.

One of the project leaders, LSBU’s Professor Stephen Dance explained that often it’s a question of finding the happy medium. “You might like waking up when it’s quiet, but in the evening you might want the vibrancy”. The value associated with these positive and negative effects of sound has never really been measured, but this has been a chance. Professor Dance said that lockdown seemed to have lowered urban noise by about five decibels, mostly because of absent traffic. That’s