Corporate Profile
Mission
NAL's mission is to lead the world in research and development that improves the way hearing is assessed, hearing loss is prevented, and hearing loss is rehabilitated.
Vision
That the world will have the knowledge it needs to assess hearing, to prevent hearing loss and to optimally treat unavoidable hearing loss.
Core Objectives
NAL is committed to:
- Creating knowledge related to assessing hearing, preventing hearing loss, and rehabilitating people with hearing loss.
- Solving hearing related problems faced by people with hearing loss or who are in danger of damaging their hearing.
- Disseminating knowledge to clinicians and practitioners who provide services to people with hearing loss or who are in danger of damaging their hearing.
Values
NAL's values reflect those of its parent organisation, Australian Hearing:
- Care for our research participants, stakeholders and ourselves.
- Integrity in all we do.
- Innovation in our activities.
- Supporting and encouraging winning teams.
- Respect for all people in all we do.
A further value of particular importance to NAL is:
- Seeking the truth through our research.
Role
NAL undertakes scientific investigations into hearing, hearing habilitation and rehabilitation, and the effects of noise on people, including the prevention of hearing loss. NAL performs the vast majority of its work in the public good as a Community Service Obligation of Australian Hearing and the Department of Health and Family Services, using funding from the Australian Government. The results of this work are published in leading peer-reviewed journals and are available at no cost or at nominal cost to clinicians and other users of the research. Some additional research is performed in collaboration with commercial organisations from the hearing rehabilitation and hearing protection industries. This work is also generally published, with appropriate safeguards to the companies sponsoring the research.
Projects at NAL fall into the following five areas:
Governance
NAL is governed by the Australian Hearing Research Committee, a sub-committee of the Australian Hearing Board, and includes external people with relevant expertise.
The membership of the Australian Hearing Research Committee in 2010 is:
Ms Kathryn Greiner AO - Chair
Mr Steven Grundy - Managing Director of Australian Hearing
Dr Harvey Dillon - Director of Research
Mr Michael Knight AO - Director
Ms Teressa Ward - National Manager, Office of Hearing Services
Dr Thomas Barlow
Dr Bob Frater
Prof Louise Hickson
Australian Hearing Human Research Ethics Committee:
Ethical aspects of the research at NAL are governed by the Australian Hearing Human Research Ethics Committee
