This EPSRC New Investigator Award explores how artificial spatial cues can be used to improve hearing in noisy, real-world environments. Over three (September 2026 – September 2029) years, it will combine AI, computational auditory modelling, immersive audio, and perceptual training to create and evaluate enhanced “superhuman” HRTFs designed to support localisation, speech-in-noise understanding, and situational awareness. The long-term vision is to establish a new framework for hearing assistive technology in which intelligent systems augment the cues listeners use to understand and navigate their surroundings, opening the way to future hearing aids and a new generation of hearing devices, including augmented reality (AR) audio platforms and ’spatial hearing glasses’.