Graham Fraser Memorial Lecture
An annual Memorial Lecture was established in 1994 by the Graham Fraser Foundation in commemoration of the work of Graham Fraser and incorporated from 1996 into the programme of the Section of Otology of the Royal Society of Medicine, England. Since 2015 the lectures have been hosted by the British Cochlear Implant Group within their annual conference to facilitate attendance by cochlear implant professionals nationwide.
The Lectureship is open to any person who, in the opinion of the Selection Committee, is qualified to contribute to the advancement of the science and practice of otology, particularly with respect to the understanding, management and alleviation of profound deafness. The Lecturer is chosen following nominations by the BCIG membership.
A list of all previous memorial lectures can be found here
Professor Frank Lin with Patricia Fraser, Philip Robinson (Chairman), Professor Nish Mehta and Miss Linnea Cheung at the 2025 Memorial Lecture, BCIG Annual Conference, London.
The Gordon Fraser Memorial Lecture 2026
We are pleased to announce that this years Graham Fraser Memorial Lecture will take place on Tuesday 21st April at BCIG Glasgow with Andrew Oxenham. The title is:
Music perception and cochlear implants: challenges and opportunities
Andrew Oxenham obtained his PhD in 1995 from the University of Cambridge. After postdoctoral training at the Institute of Perception Research (IPO) in the Netherlands and at Northeastern University, Boston, he led a research group at MIT’s Research Lab of Electronics from 1999 to 2006. He then joined the University of Minnesota, where he is currently a Distinguished McKnight University Professor and the Director of the Center for Applied and Translational Sensory Sciences (CATSS). An author on over 200 peer-reviewed scientific publications in auditory and speech perception and neuroscience, he is also the founding Editor in Chief of the journal Trends in Hearing. He received early-career awards from the Acoustical Society of America (ASA) and the National Academy of Sciences, and was recently honored with the ASA’s Silver Medal in Psychological and Physiological Acoustics. His research has received continuous grant support from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) since 1998.
2025 Graham Fraser Travel Grants
The Trustees of the Graham Fraser Foundation invite applications from non-medical BCIG members for a travel grant for attendance at a national or international conference, short course or observership in another cochlear implant unit. Applicants should submit by email details of the proposed venture, level of support requested and curriculum vitae to:
The Graham Fraser Foundation
c/o Mr Philip Robinson
gffchairman@gmail.com
www.grahamfraserfoundation.org.uk
Closing date for applications: 30 September 2025
Graham Fraser Memorial Fellowship
A Memorial Fellowship was established in 1997 by the Graham Fraser Foundation to promote research to further the understanding, management and alleviation of profound deafness.
Every year since 2014 MED-EL UK has provided funding for the Graham Fraser Memorial Fellowship to enable an ENT Specialty Registrar to undertake a six-month period of further training with Professor Catherine Birman in NextSense Cochlear Implant Program in Sydney. Many Fellows have returned to become Consultant CI Surgeons in major centres in the UK using the experience acquired during their Fellowship for the benefit of patients.
MED-EL's funding makes an invaluable contribution to the training of potential CI surgeons for the UK.
The Fellowships are advertised annually in the September/October issue of ENT & audiology news and publicised by ENT UK . Specialty Registrars on a recognised UK or Republic of Ireland training programme are eligible to apply.