Centres
1992-1998 Director,
Co-operative Research Centre for “Cochlear Implant, Speech and Hearing Research”
1988-1996 Director,
The Australian Research Council’s Special Research Centre the “Human
Communication Research Centre”
1987-94 Chief
Investigator, National Institutes of Health Grant, “Improved Cochlear Implant:
Psychophysics and Engineering”
1984-87 Chief
Investigator, National Institutes of Health Grant: “An Advanced Multi-Channel
Cochlear Implant for Deafness”
1987-92 Chief
Investigator, National of Health Contract: “Studies on Pediatric Auditory
Prosthesis Implants”
1985-92 Chief
Investigator, National Institutes of Health Contract: “Speech Processors for
Auditory Prostheses”
1984-93 Chief
Investigator, National Health and Medical Research Council Program Grant:
“Studies to Develop Sensory Prostheses for Deaf Children and Adults”
2002-2004 Co-Chief
Investigator
“Extraction of key features of natural speech by ventral cochlear nucleus neurons”
2001-2002 Co-Chief
Investigator
“Improving speech perception outcomes in deaf adults and children using
cochlear implants”
1999-2001 Co-Chief
Investigator
“Neural mechanisms underlying temporal and place coding of auditory information
in the ventral cochlear nucleus”
1997-2001 Co-Chief
Investigator
“Binaural hearing & spoken language development in cochlear implant &
hearing aid users”
1997-99 Co-Chief
Investigator
“Speech perception by cochlear implantees: perceptual and related
psychophysical studies”
1997-99 Co-Chief
Investigator
“Psychophysics of simultaneous electric and acoustic signals in opposite ears”
1994-96 Co-Chief
Investigator
“Speech perception in children using auditory and tactile speech processors”
1994-96 Co-Chief
Investigator
“Psychophysics of acoustic and electric signals in opposite ears”
1994-95 Co-Chief
Investigator
“Electrotactile psychophysics and speech science”
1994 Co-Chief
Investigator
“Psychophysical studies in children using cochlear implants”
1993-97 Chief
Investigator
“Speech Perception for deaf people using cochlear implants in both ears”
1991-93 Chief
Investigator
“Studies to develop an improved speech processor for deaf children and adults”
1983-84 Chief
Investigator
“Studies to develop an improved speech processor for deaf children and adults”
1982 Chief
Investigator
“Prosthetic devices for patients with communicative disorders”
1981-83 Chief
Investigator
“The development of a hearing prosthesis and speech processor”
1979-81 Chief
Investigator
“Studies on the management of sensori-neural deafness”
1977-80 Chief
Investigator
“The development of a hearing prosthesis”
1973-78 Chief
Investigator
“Studies of hearing in children with communication disorders”
1971-72 Chief
Investigator
“Electrical stimulation of the inner ear and auditory nerve”
1985-88 Director,
Commonwealth Government Public Interest Grant for development of the Tickle
Talker
1980-81 Director,
Commonwealth Government Public Interest Grant: Awarded under the Industrial
Research & Development Incentives Act- Phase II
1979 Director,
Commonwealth Government Public Interest Grant: Awarded under the Industrial
Research & Development Incentives Act- Phase I
1973-81 Chief
Investigator, Nerve Deafness Appeal Research Program.
1980-89
Chief Investigator, Deafness
Foundation of
1980 Chief Investigator, Deafness
Foundation of
1989 Chief
Investigator, Victorian Lions Foundation Inc., “Children’s Deafness Project”.
1979 Chief
Investigator, Lions Clubs International: “Speech Research Fellowship”.
1978 Chief
Investigator, Lions Clubs International: “Speech Research”.