{"id":1,"date":"2025-03-13T09:25:07","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T09:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/sound-environment\/?p=1"},"modified":"2025-04-11T08:14:53","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T07:14:53","slug":"hello-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/sound-environment\/2025\/03\/13\/hello-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Sound + Environment Research Group"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Sound + Environment Research Group at Newcastle University brings together researchers working across arts and sciences to explore the ways that sound\u202fcan deepen our understanding of\u202fenvironments\u202fand the communities inhabiting them.\u202fFor example, recent developments in the field of ecoacoustics are proving fruitful in assessing ecosystem change.\u202fSound\u202fand listening are\u202falso increasingly used to monitor built structures and to inform urban and rural landscape design. We can use\u202fsound\u202ffor scientific and artistic exploration, to inform and expand our knowledge of\u202fenvironments and our relationships to the world around us. Sound\u202fcan inform a range of innovative interventions and solutions to problems. Through exploring scientific and artistic approaches together, we engage with\u202fsound\u202fand listening\u202fto create complementary ways of investigating, understanding, and taking action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So far, the group has brought together researchers working across archaeology, architecture landscape and planning, biology, computing, engineering, ecology, fine art, geography, heritage studies, history, law, music, and physics. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Sound + Environment Research Group sits within the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/landscape\/\">Centre for Landscape<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/creativearts\/\">Institute for Creative Arts Practice<\/a> at Newcastle University.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Co-directors:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr Rob Mackay (<a href=\"mailto:rob.mackay@newcastle.ac.uk\">rob.mackay@newcastle.ac.uk<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr Usue Ruiz Arana (<a href=\"mailto:usue.ruiz-arana@newcastle.ac.uk\">usue.ruiz-arana@newcastle.ac.uk<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1746\" height=\"434\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/sound-environment\/files\/2025\/03\/NU-Logos.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-29\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sound + Environment Research Group at Newcastle University brings together researchers working across arts and sciences to explore the ways that sound\u202fcan deepen our understanding of\u202fenvironments\u202fand the communities inhabiting them.\u202fFor example, recent developments in the field of ecoacoustics are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/sound-environment\/2025\/03\/13\/hello-world\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":182,"featured_media":16,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/sound-environment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/sound-environment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/sound-environment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/sound-environment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/182"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/sound-environment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/sound-environment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/sound-environment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/51"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/sound-environment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/sound-environment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/sound-environment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/sound-environment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}