Workshop 1: From Question to Evidence: Building Your Research and Scientific Communication in Audiology

Abstract: This workshop provides a comprehensive introduction to conducting research and communicating scientific results in audiology. Designed for early-career researchers, clinicians, and multidisciplinary professionals new to academic research, the session will guide participants through the entire research journey: from formulating a researchable question, through study design and data collection, to analyzing findings and publishing results. The workshop combines conceptual foundations with practical strategies and tools, emphasizing real-world applications in audiology. Participants will explore concrete examples throughout and leave with a comprehensive toolkit for initiating and executing their own research projects and manuscripts. No prior research experience is required.The workshop is supported by AUDITIO, Spanish Journal of Audiology, and the Spanish Association of Audiology (AEDA). Throughout the session, we will highlight and discuss selected studies published in AUDITIO to illustrate key stages of the research and publication process. In addition, we will present AUDITIO as a representative example of a journal that effectively bridges clinical practice and scientific research. This case will serve to demonstrate how such platforms can provide an accessible entry point for audiologists seeking to disseminate their work and engage with the scientific community.

Biography: Natàlia Gorina-Careta is a neuroscientist and lecturer on Neuroscience and Scientific Methodology in Audiology at the BSc in General Audiology of the Universitat de Vic – Universitat Central de Catalunya (UVic–UCC). She completed her PhD at the Brainlab – Cognitive Neuroscience Research Group, focusing on sound processing along the auditory hierarchy and has held postdoctoral positions at the Sant Joan de Déu Research Institute and the University of Barcelona. She has collaborated with laboratories across Europe, contributed to 12 research projects, and published in top-quartile journals. Her research focuses on subcortical auditory processing and how genetic and environmental factors modulate the development of sound processing in newborns during their first two years of life.

Helia Relaño-Iborra is a postdoctoral researcher with a dual position at the Eriksholm Research Centre (Denmark) and the University of Rochester (US). Her research focuses on the perception of speech by people with and without hearing impairment. To understand the mechanisms underlying the effortful and degraded perception of speech that is commonly observed in older people and individuals with hearing impairment, Helia uses psychoacoustic experiments, physiological measures such as pupillometry and computational auditory models. Helia received her Ph.D. degree from the Technical University of Denmark where she is still actively involved in supervision of master and Ph.D. students. She is also the editor in chief of AUDITIO, the Spanish Journal of Audiology.