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 1st August 2025

Congratulations to Raluca Nicoras, who graduated with her PhD on 23 July 2025! Raluca’s PhD thesis is entitled ‘Test methods for group conversation: Operationalising conversational success’ and was sponsored by WS Audiology A/S. Raluca investigated the concept of conversation success in group settings, using self-report, behavioural, and observer-based methods to understand how people with normal and impaired hearing experience and evaluate conversations. 

Several publications have already come out of Raluca’s work:

• Nicoras, R., Fischer, R. L., Naylor, G., Smeds, K., & Hadley, L. V. (2025). Self-reported conversation success in groups involving adults with normal and impaired hearing. International Journal of Audiology, 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1080/14992027.2025.2514584
• Nicoras R., Buck B., Fischer R., Godfrey M., Hadley LV., Smeds K., Naylor G. (2025). Effective design for experiments on small-group conversation: insights from an example study, American Journal of Audiology, https://pubs.asha.org/doi/full/10.1044/2025_AJA-24-00226
• Nicoras R., Gotowiec S., Fischer R., Hadley LV., Smeds K., Naylor G. (2023). Conversation success in one-to-one and group conversation: a group concept mapping study of adults with normal and impaired hearing, International Journal of Audiology, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14992027.2022.2095538