Kay is the Research Coordinator for the Toronto Metropolitan Auditory Research Cluster which comprises of the SMART Lab, and the Cognitive Hearing Lab. She joined CHL in 2019 when Dr Paul joined TMARC.
Kay has a BSc honours in Psychology from Glasgow University, and completed a Masters degree in Cognitive Neuroscience at Durham University in 2011.
After graduating from her Masters degree, Kay started working in the area of hearing research; she worked for 5 years as an RA at the Medical Research Council’s Institute of Hearing Research in Glasgow under the supervision of Drs Michael Akeroyd and Graham Naylor.
In early 2017 Kay moved to Canada and started working at the Univerisity of Toronto, Mississauga with Drs Kathy Pichora-Fuller and Alison Chasteen.
Kay’s primary research interests are the effects of hearing loss on everyday life and how we can improve the technology available to those suffering; she is also interested in the effects of hearing loss on emotion perception; and the effects of stigma on health related behaviours.
Kay has expertise in audiometry, writing standard operating procedures, writing ethics applications, and mentoring research assistants.
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