ILA Awards

ILA Synergist Award

Outlined in a 2008 White Paper, the Synergist Award promotes the advancement of listening knowledge and research through a targeted focus. Using a deductive process, listening scholars and educators have developed a set of priorities for listening research. The researchers granted the ILA Synergist Award will be those cooperating with international listening scholars to build listening theory.

2025

Elizabeth Parks - for her outstanding contributions to the advancement of listening knowledge and research

2016

Christopher D. Bond - Redefining Listening Online Contexts: A cross-dynamic analysis of online users' perceptions of listening online

2015

Laura Janusik - Project: Developing a comprehensive list of cognitive and metacognitive listening strategies used in the US English speaking classroom

2012

Shaughan Keaton, Graham D. Bodie, Robert Keteyian - The Intersection of Communication Styles and Listening Styles

2011

Graham D. Bodie and Christopher Gearhart - Is the Highly Sensitive Person a Sensitive Listener? An Initial Investigation into the Relationship between Sensory Processing Sensitivity and Recognition of Emotions

2010

Stephen McCord - Leadership Style and Listening Practices of IMB Team Leaders: A Correlational Study