Overview
Background
My research concerns i) understanding causes and impacts of hearing impairment, particularly in the context of multimorbidity in older age, ii) prevention and treatment of hearing impairment, and iii) hearing service development and evaluation. My research involves epidemiological modelling with population data sets, clinical trials and hearing health policy. I have authored over130 publications in peer reviewed journals and books, and I frequently present invited and keynote addresses at international conferences. I have received the British Society of Audiology’s TS Littler prize for services to audiology and a prestigious US-UK Fulbright award.
I have been awarded 10 grants as principal investigator in the last 5 years totalling >AUD$14.5 million from competitive sources including the NHMRC, the NIHR, the Alzheimer’s Society UK, the European Commission, industry and charity funders. This funding includes an EU Horizon 2020 grant of €6.2 million (as joint PI for “Ears, Eyes and Mind: The “SENSE-Cog Project” to improve mental well-being for elderly Europeans with sensory impairment”), and two NHMRC Medical Research Future Fund awards ($1.2 million as CI for “SENSEcog aged care: Hearing and vision support to improve quality of life for people living with dementia in residential aged care”; AUD$1.3 million for "Home hearing and vision care to improve quality of life for people with dementia and carers"; and an AUD$0.9 million NHMRC targetted hearing research award (as CI for "Improving access to the hearing services program for people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds"). I have strong links with hearing industry partners and have received research funding (total >AUD$500,000) from major hearing aid companies Starkey, Oticon, Phonak and the hearing industry research consortium. I have a position at the University of Manchester with on-going involvement (as CI and co-I) in projects funded by the NIHR, the ESRC, the Alzheimer’s Society and the RNID.
Availability
- Professor Piers Dawes is:
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Fields of research
Research interests
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Research interests
hearing loss; tinnitus, vision loss; assessment; dementia; healthy ageing; psychosocial interventions; mental well-being; aged care; health policy and ageing; public health; dementia; health inequalities; hearing screening
Research impacts
My research is widely cited in national and international guidelines & policy, including the 2016 US National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine report ‘Hearing Health Care for Adults: Priorities for Improving Access and Affordability’; the UK National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidance ‘Hearing Loss in adults: Assessment and management’; the Australian Parliamentary report on hearing loss ‘Still waiting to be heard’; the 2020 Lancet report on dementia prevention and care; and the WHO guidelines ‘Risk reduction of cognitive decline and dementia’. My research has global impact, including authorship of the first international guidelines on assessment and management of hearing/vision impairment for people with dementia and development and publication of alternative versions of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (internationally the most used cognitive screening test) for people with hearing or vision impairment.
My work on developing European networks for consumer and community involvement (CCI) of older adults with lived experience of hearing/vision and cognitive difficulties to inform multi-centre health research was identified for a keynote presentation to open the 2018 INVOLVE (the UK NIHR CCI organization) CCI conference and is cited as a gold standard example by the European INTERDEM initiative to guide integrated biomedical and psychosocial dementia research.
I am on the editorial board of Ear and Hearing, the International Journal of Audiology, and the Journal of Audiology & Otology. I am a peer reviewer for >30 journals, as well as the NHMRC, the NIHR, the ESRC, the MRC and the RNID. I represent the University of Queensland on the Hearing Health Sector Alliance and I am the chair of the Hearing Health Sector Alliance's aged care working group. I am on the Research Committee of the Deafness Foundation.
Works
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2023
Journal Article
Hearing care services for adults with hearing loss in Malaysia: a scoping review
Romli, Maziah, Timmer, Barbra H. B. and Dawes, Piers (2023). Hearing care services for adults with hearing loss in Malaysia: a scoping review. International Journal of Audiology, 63 (10), 1-8. doi: 10.1080/14992027.2023.2270594
2023
Journal Article
Assessing the pool activity level (PAL) checklist for use with people with hearing and vision loss
Dawes, Piers, Pool, Jackie, Charalambous, Anna Pavlina, Côté, Mathieu, David, Renaud, Helmer, Catherine, Laforce, Robert, Politis, Antonis, Russell, Gregor, Sirois, Marie-Josée, Thodi, Chyrssoula, Yeung, Wai Kent and Leroi, Iracema (2023). Assessing the pool activity level (PAL) checklist for use with people with hearing and vision loss. Geriatric Nursing, 53, 1-5. doi: 10.1016/j.gerinurse.2023.06.001
2023
Journal Article
Validation of the German Montreal-Cognitive-Assessment-H for hearing-impaired
Völter, Christiane, Fricke, Hannah, Faour, Sarah, Lueg, Gero, Nasreddine, Ziad S., Götze, Lisa and Dawes, Piers (2023). Validation of the German Montreal-Cognitive-Assessment-H for hearing-impaired. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 15 1209385. doi: 10.3389/fnagi.2023.1209385
2023
Journal Article
Capabilities, opportunities and motivations of staff to provide hearing support to long-term care home residents with dementia
Cross, Hannah, Armitage, Christopher J., Dawes, Piers, Leroi, Iracema and Millman, Rebecca E. (2023). Capabilities, opportunities and motivations of staff to provide hearing support to long-term care home residents with dementia. International Journal of Audiology, 63 (7), 1-8. doi: 10.1080/14992027.2023.2227764
2023
Journal Article
Screening for Dementia in Audiology Clinics – Advantages, Pitfalls, and Recommendations
Dawes, Piers, Robinson, Gail and Leroi, Iracema (2023). Screening for Dementia in Audiology Clinics – Advantages, Pitfalls, and Recommendations. The Hearing Journal, 76 (06), 26-27. doi: 10.1097/01.hj.0000938624.32004.6d
2023
Conference Publication
Improving access to the hearing services program for people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds
Dawes, P., Scarinci, N., Newall, J., Nickbakht, M., Hickson, L., Ching, T., Armitage, C., Waite, M., Orlando, M. and Harris-Roxas, B. (2023). Improving access to the hearing services program for people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. Audiology Australia National Conference, Gold Coast, QLD Australia, 7-10 May 2023.
2023
Journal Article
Do hearing loss interventions prevent dementia?
Dawes, Piers and Völter, Christiane (2023). Do hearing loss interventions prevent dementia?. Zeitschrift für Gerontologie und Geriatrie, 56 (4), 261-268. doi: 10.1007/s00391-023-02178-z
2023
Journal Article
Association between hearing loss and deprivation among Welsh adults: a cross-sectional observational study
Allum, Jack, Meredith, Rhys, Uus, Kai, Kirkham, Jamie J and Dawes, Piers (2023). Association between hearing loss and deprivation among Welsh adults: a cross-sectional observational study. BMJ Open, 13 (5) e066419, 1-7. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2022-066419
2023
Journal Article
Development and validation of the Montreal cognitive assessment for people with hearing impairment (MoCA‐H)
Dawes, Piers, Reeves, David, Yeung, Wai Kent, Holland, Fiona, Charalambous, Anna Pavlina, Côté, Mathieu, David, Renaud, Helmer, Catherine, Laforce, Robert, Martins, Ralph N., Politis, Antonis, Pye, Annie, Russell, Gregor, Sheikh, Saima, Sirois, Marie‐Josée, Sohrabi, Hamid R., Thodi, Chyrssoula, Gallant, Kathleen, Nasreddine, Ziad and Leroi, Iracema (2023). Development and validation of the Montreal cognitive assessment for people with hearing impairment (MoCA‐H). Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 71 (5), 1485-1494. doi: 10.1111/jgs.18241
2023
Journal Article
A narrative review of lifestyle risk factors and the role of oxidative stress in age-related hearing loss
Tang, Diana, Tran, Yvonne, Dawes, Piers and Gopinath, Bamini (2023). A narrative review of lifestyle risk factors and the role of oxidative stress in age-related hearing loss. Antioxidants, 12 (4) 878, 1-17. doi: 10.3390/antiox12040878
2023
Journal Article
Trajectories of self-reported hearing and their associations with cognition: evidence from the United Kingdom and United States of America
Matthews, Katey, Dawes, Piers, Elliot, Rebecca, Pendleton, Neil, Tampubolon, Gindo and Maharani, Asri (2023). Trajectories of self-reported hearing and their associations with cognition: evidence from the United Kingdom and United States of America. Age and ageing, 52 (2) afad017, 1-9. doi: 10.1093/ageing/afad017
2023
Journal Article
Editorial: Hearing loss rehabilitation and higher-order auditory and cognitive processing
Naples, James G., Henshaw, Helen, Dawes, Piers and Moberly, Aaron C. (2023). Editorial: Hearing loss rehabilitation and higher-order auditory and cognitive processing. Frontiers in Neurology, 14 1257554, 1257554. doi: 10.3389/fneur.2023.1257554
2022
Journal Article
Patient and public involvement in hearing research: opportunities, impact and reflections with case studies from the Manchester Centre for Audiology and Deafness
Dawes, Piers, Arru, Paolo, Corry, Rachel, McDermott, John Henry, Garlick, Julia, Guest, Hannah, Howlett, Emily, Jackson, Iain, James, Rachel, Keane, Annie, Murray, Carlyn, Newman, William, Visram, Anisa and Munro, Kevin J. (2022). Patient and public involvement in hearing research: opportunities, impact and reflections with case studies from the Manchester Centre for Audiology and Deafness. International Journal of Audiology, 63 (2), 1-9. doi: 10.1080/14992027.2022.2155881
2022
Journal Article
Evaluation of the non-auditory neurocognitive test MoCA-HI for hearing-impaired
Völter, Christiane, Fricke, Hannah, Götze, Lisa, Labrenz, Franziska, Tokic, Marianne, Wirth, Rainer, Nasreddine, Ziad S. and Dawes, Piers (2022). Evaluation of the non-auditory neurocognitive test MoCA-HI for hearing-impaired. Frontiers in Neurology, 13 1022292, 1-10. doi: 10.3389/fneur.2022.1022292
2022
Journal Article
Protocol for a pre-post, mixed-methods feasibility study of the Brain Bootcamp behaviour change intervention to promote healthy brain ageing in older adults
Siette, Joyce, Dodds, Laura, Dawes, Piers, Richards, Deborah, Savage, Greg, Strutt, Paul, Ijaz, Kiran, Johnco, Carly, Wuthrich, Viviana, Heger, Irene, Deckers, Kay, Köhler, Sebastian and Armitage, Christopher J. (2022). Protocol for a pre-post, mixed-methods feasibility study of the Brain Bootcamp behaviour change intervention to promote healthy brain ageing in older adults. PLoS One, 17 (11) e0272517, 1-18. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0272517
2022
Journal Article
Allostatic load and risk of hearing impairment
Matthews, Katey, Dawes, Piers, Elliot, Rebecca, Maharani, Asri, Pendleton, Neil and Tampubolon, Gindo (2022). Allostatic load and risk of hearing impairment. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity - Health, 25 100496, 100496. doi: 10.1016/j.bbih.2022.100496
2022
Journal Article
Systematic review of factors associated with hearing aid use in people living in the community with dementia and age-related hearing loss
Hooper, Emma, Brown, Laura J.E., Cross, Hannah, Dawes, Piers, Leroi, Iracema and Armitage, Christopher J. (2022). Systematic review of factors associated with hearing aid use in people living in the community with dementia and age-related hearing loss. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, 23 (10), 1669-1675.e16. doi: 10.1016/j.jamda.2022.07.011
2022
Journal Article
Hearing Assessment and Rehabilitation for People Living With Dementia
Dawes, Piers, Littlejohn, Jenna, Bott, Anthea, Brennan, Siobhan, Burrow, Simon, Hopper, Tammy and Scanlan, Emma (2022). Hearing Assessment and Rehabilitation for People Living With Dementia. Ear and Hearing, 43 (4), 1089-1102. doi: 10.1097/AUD.0000000000001174
2022
Journal Article
Evaluation of the I-PLAN Intervention to Promote Hearing Aid Use in New Adult Users: a randomized controlled trial
Ismail, Afzarini H., Armitage, Christopher J., Munro, Kevin J., Marsden, Antonia and Dawes, Piers D. (2022). Evaluation of the I-PLAN Intervention to Promote Hearing Aid Use in New Adult Users: a randomized controlled trial. Ear and Hearing, 43 (4), 1103-1113. doi: 10.1097/aud.0000000000001195
2022
Journal Article
Web- and app-based tools for remote hearing assessment: a scoping review
Almufarrij, Ibrahim, Dillon, Harvey, Dawes, Piers, Moore, David R., Yeung, Wai, Charalambous, Anna-Pavlina, Thodi, Chryssoula and Munro, Kevin J. (2022). Web- and app-based tools for remote hearing assessment: a scoping review. International Journal of Audiology, 62 (8), 1-14. doi: 10.1080/14992027.2022.2075798
Funding
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Supervision
Availability
- Professor Piers Dawes is:
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Supervision history
Current supervision
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Doctor Philosophy
Hearing health inequalities in culturally and linguistically diverse communities in Australia.
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Asaduzzaman Khan, Dr Mansoureh Nickbakht
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Doctor Philosophy
The Australian home care study: prevalence, recognition and treatment of hearing, vision and dementia among vulnerable older Australians
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Nancy Pachana
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Doctor Philosophy
Identifying hearing and vision impairment among people in residential aged care communities
Principal Advisor
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Doctor Philosophy
Hearing Health Inequality in Australian Immigrants
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Nerina Scarinci
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Doctor Philosophy
Help-seeking for hearing impairment and hearing interventions uptake and outcomes among adults in Malaysia
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Barbra Timmer
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