Clau Nader
Research Associate

Profile

Biography

Clau Nader is a sound engineer, researcher and educator specialised in immersive audio-visual media design for film, TV and sonic art installations. Clau is a passionate science communicator and dedicates their work in support of equity, diversity, inclusion, accessibility, and sustainability.

Qualifications

• BEng
• MSc
• PhD (subject to corrections submission)

University roles

• Member of the School of Arts and Creative Technologies Ethics Committee
• Advisory Group member for the Fair Funding for Mental Health project, Centre for Health Economics

Research

Overview

Clau's research interests focus on social justice, mental health, and media studies, especially involving Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) and co-production methods through creative and digital media.

Clau’s doctoral research (2024) explored the effects of immersive multimodal ASMR-inducing media and its use as potential psychosocial interventions for mental health and wellbeing in young people.

Projects

• Strengthening Crisis Team Provision for Young People via Technology enhanced Assessment and Training project (SCriPT) funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research

Research group(s)

• Mental Health and Addiction

Publications

Full publications list

• Clau Nader's publications

Teaching

Undergraduate

• Graduate Teaching Assistant for the School of Arts and Creative Technologies, delivering practical sessions for the modules 'The Science of Sound and Cinematography', 'Introduction to Film and Television Production Methods', 'Advanced Audio' and ‘Filmmaking’ 

Postgraduate

• Has taught practical modules including Digital Production and Postproduction Workflow and Spatial Audio and Surround Sound, the latter involving a strong syllabus on psychoacoustics

External activities

Memberships

• ASMR Research Network
• Audio Engineering Society
• Soundgirls.org
• Yorkshire Sound Women’s Network

Invited talks and conferences

• Cheltenham Science Festival, Cheltenham (Invited speaker)
• Artsoundscapes Seminar Series, Universitat de Barcelona (Invited speaker)
• Design Museum London talk for the WEIRD SENSATION FEELS GOOD exhibition (Invited speaker)
• Master Class with Sound Engineer Michelle Couttolenc, School of Arts and Creative Technologies (Organiser and host)
• ASMR: touching sound for youth wellbeing? York Festival of Ideas (Speaker)
• The ASMR Spa. Family Fun Afternoon, Festival of Ideas (Co-creator)
• Women Occupying Spaces, Latin American Society International Women’s Day panel (Invited speaker)
• ASMR: hearing, touch, Research Seminar. Acoustics Research Centre, University of Salford (Invited speaker)
• Mission to the Stars, Family Fringe Afternoon, Festival of Ideas. (Invited sound designer)
• ASMR: Affect or Synaesthesia? Klingt Gut International Symposium on Sonic Art and Spatial Audio (Speaker)
• The importance of understanding the sense of hearing for sound engineers, XVII Expo Acústica International Convention. National Polytechnic Institute (Invited panel member)
• The Science of ASMR. Annual ASMR Convention, TingleCon, online. (Invited panel member)
• ASMR, binaural sound and wellbeing, STEM Village Virtual Symposium. University of Edinburgh (Poster presenter)
• Equity, Advocacy and Justice, STEM Village Virtual Symposium. University of Edinburgh (Invited panel member)
• Binaural Sound in ASMR-inducing Media and Wellbeing,148^th Audio Engineering Society International Convention (Speaker)
• ASMR: Immersive sound interventions for mental health improvement in children and adolescents, Music, Wellbeing and Mental Health Conference. Hereford College of Arts, UK. (Speaker, guest workshop facilitator)
• Sonification: an intervention for mental health improvement, XVII Symposium of Mexican Studies and Students in the UK. University of Cambridge, UK (Speaker)
• Manifesto: an immersive installation, Mexican Art & Cultural Research Symposium. King’s College London, UK (Speaker)

Media coverage

• Interview on ASMR, sound therapies, society, and the Internet for EFE News Agency (2023)
• Interview on ASMR and Digital Wellness for the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (2023)
• Interview for VRTonung Blog (2022)
• Interview on ASMR and sound for El País Newspaper (2022)
• Interview for the Mission Impossible Show by Imperial College Radio (2022)
• XTingles Podcast on Discord (2021)
• Mindset by Dave Show on Twitch (2021)
• El Itacate Podcast (2020)