Interpreting Noise Nuisance Law: Challenges, Emerging Issues, and the Need for Expanded Standards (2024)
Journal Article
Williams, D. (in press). Interpreting Noise Nuisance Law: Challenges, Emerging Issues, and the Need for Expanded Standards. Planning and Environmental Law,

The enforcement of noise pollution laws is impeded by subjective interpretations within legislation, fragmented statutes, and inconsistent enforcement mechanisms.
Noise pollution has significant impacts on public health, ranging from sleep disrupti... Read More about Interpreting Noise Nuisance Law: Challenges, Emerging Issues, and the Need for Expanded Standards.

Confidence limits for coherence – toward a better understanding of its use as a diffuse field metric for quantifying the quality of Direct Field Acoustic Noise (DFAN) Testing systems (2024)
Conference Proceeding
Hargreaves, J., & Underwood, M. (2024). Confidence limits for coherence – toward a better understanding of its use as a diffuse field metric for quantifying the quality of Direct Field Acoustic Noise (DFAN) Testing systems.

To determine the degree of diffuseness of a particular acoustic field, an oft-considered metric is the coherence between spaced pairs of measurement microphones. This is useful because the expected theoretical ‘sinc2’ trend for a diffuse field is wel... Read More about Confidence limits for coherence – toward a better understanding of its use as a diffuse field metric for quantifying the quality of Direct Field Acoustic Noise (DFAN) Testing systems.

A-Weighting for All? Acoustic Assessment for an Aurally Diverse Population (2023)
Report
Scanlan, J., & Davies, W. (2023). A-Weighting for All? Acoustic Assessment for an Aurally Diverse Population. London: Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs

1. The aim of this report is to review whether A-Weighting accurately represents the hearing of the whole UK population, to explore the consequences if it does not, and to make recommendations for future research to address the problems identified.... Read More about A-Weighting for All? Acoustic Assessment for an Aurally Diverse Population.