Rate My Professor Piers Dawes

Dawes has authored over 130 peer-reviewed publications and books, including 'Hearing Loss and Dementia: Where to From Here?' (2024, Ear and Hearing), 'Development and validation of the Montreal cognitive assessment for people with hearing impairment (MoCA-H)' (2023, Journal of the American Geriatrics Society), and 'Hearing Assessment and Rehabilitation for People Living with Dementia: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis' (2022, Ear and Hearing). As principal investigator, he has secured over AUD$14.5 million in competitive grants over the last five years, including a €6.2 million EU Horizon 2020 grant for the SENSE-Cog project, NHMRC Medical Research Future Fund awards totaling AUD$2.5 million for hearing and vision support in aged care and home care, and an AUD$0.9 million NHMRC award for improving access to hearing services for culturally diverse populations. He received the British Society of Audiology’s Thomas Simm Littler Prize in 2014 for services to audiology and a US-UK Fulbright Scholarship in 2013-2014. His research informs guidelines such as WHO recommendations on dementia risk reduction, NICE hearing loss management, and the Lancet Commission on dementia prevention. Dawes serves on editorial boards for Ear and Hearing, International Journal of Audiology, and Journal of Audiology & Otology, represents UQ on the Hearing Health Sector Alliance, and chairs its aged care working group.