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Carole Hackney
Carole Hackney was a neuroscientist that was born on May 10th, 1955 in Preston Lancashire. She was really involved in the science of audiology which led her to become a British audiologist. Her husband is David Furness and he is the secretary of the BSA, also known as the British Society of Audiology.

Background Information
Carole Hackney was born in Preston, Lancashire on May 10th, 1955. She was a neuroscientist and neurobiologist with a special interest in audiology. She was a British audiologist, working along with her second husband, David Furness, who was the Secretary of the BSA, also known as the British Society of Audiology.

Childhood
During her childhood, she traveled a lot because her father, Malcolm Walker, was part of the RAF aircrew. The 'RAF' is the Royal Air Force, which is a section of the British armed forces. This section of the Air Force is in charge of providing tactical reports and making sure that the troops are being transported carefully so that nothing happens to them and that the aircrafts are functioning well. Because he was part of the Air Force, he was constantly being sent to different military bases and Hackney, along with her mother, Mavis, who was a teacher, and her two younger sisters would follow him wherever he went. She experienced life in many different English countries as a result, causing them to spend most of their time camping and caravanning. After her two younger sisters, Janet and Katherine, were born, her dad left the Air Force and settled down in Kendal, Cumbria.

Education
Since she was constantly moving to different countries, she went to different schools as a child and got to experience being in a mixed environment with different backgrounds and nationalities. She attended Kendal high school and excelled with amazing academic grades. She went to Manchester University and acquired a Bachelor of Science with 1st class honors in Genetics and Cell Biology. She furthered her degree BS in Cell Biology, transforming it into a PhD.

Work & Life
Hackney was previously married to Paul Hackney, whom she met at Kendal High School. She had two sons with Paul Hackney, one in 1981 named Peter and the other in 1986 named Sam. She became a lecturer at Keele University, where she employed David Furness as her first post-doctoral researcher at Keele. Hackney and Furness worked together and were able to establish successful scientific careers because of their research. Because of their different careers, Paul and Carole were having a tough time in their marriage. Even though they would spend time together, they still grew apart and got divorced. Carole kept her last name because that was the name she became well-known in her scientific career.

After she divorced Paul, she first moved to the University of Wisconsin-Madison but soon returned to Keele University because of family concerns. Later, she joined the Department of Anatomy in Cambridge University but grew depressed ad dependent on alcohol when she couldn't meet anyone or make friends. Dave would come to visit her to lift up her spirits. In 2008, they decided to get married.

Career in Medicine
As Carole developed her career, she first set up her very own electron microscope. This enabled her to start her own business called Advanced Imaging and Microscopy which began to pick up soon after she established it. As a result, she was able to set up two electron microscopes of her own in the garage to her house with the help of her husband. This huge success led her to become the head of the Department of Communication and Neuroscience. Soon enough, this department merged with the Department of Biological Sciences, forming a new School of Life Sciences, whom she was the head of. She also began to make huge contributions to the science of hearing, publishing many articles and research papers regarding audiology.

Death
Two years after she established her business of Advanced Imaging and Microscopy, she passed away in a tragic accident, where she left her husband and her entire family behind. She passed away on February 17th, 2015 in Keele, United Kingdom.

Awards & Publications
In 1997, Carole Hackney won the Thomas Simm Littler Prize for contributions to Audiology. This award was given to her in honor of how much time, work and dedication she put forth in the development of audiology and the understand of the ear anatomy and anything that had to do with hearing.

She also attended lots of scientific conferences, research and workshops in places like Czechoslovakia, Norway and Japan, where she would explain any advancements in her research on audiology and she would also help others understand more in depth the anatomy and the function of the ear. An example of one of the speeches she gave in a workshop was on the auditory basis of speech perception. At this workshop, she gave a description of the ear, from the cochlea all the way to its cortex, and she explained how every single part of the ear worked together to allow for the perceiving of speech and hearing in general. It was a very informative workshop which a lot of people benefitted from and allowed others more in-depth knowledge of the ear.

Hackney published a total of 65 major research articles and several chapters in books, including a revision in the inner ear chapter in the Gray's Anatomy book. One of her most famous research papers is "A Large-Conductance Calcium-Selective Mechanotransducer Channel in Mammalian Cochlear Hair Cells. This Research article talked about how different people contained different calcium permeability, meaning the ability of liquids and gases to pass through, which would explain the diversity in the expression of these types of channels in the ear of the human being.