UCL Ear Institute

[1][2] Together with the Royal National Throat Nose and Ear Hospital, the institute constitutes the largest centre for audiological research in Europe.

[4] In order to provide this cross-faculty, multidisciplinary group with a unifying identity the ILO was disestablished and the UCL Ear Institute created on 1 January 2005.

[5] In December 2006 the results of tests carried out at the institute were published which showed that many children's toys available that Christmas could damage a child's hearing.

[15] In the same month a team from the institute began a major study to investigate the role of the brain rather than the ear in contributing to hearing difficulties.

[20] The libraries are based at the Royal National Throat Nose & Ear Hospital and together constitute the largest specialist collection for audiology, Deaf studies, and otorhinolaryngologic medicine in Europe.