In the heat of the moment: audience real time response to live music and dance performance

Coughing and Clapping: Investigating Audience Experience explores the processes and experiences of attending live music events from the initial decision to attend through to audience responses and memories of a performance after it has happened. The book brings together international researchers who consider the experience of being an audience member from a range of theoretical and empirical perspectives. Whether enjoying a drink at a jazz gig, tweeting at a pop concert or suppressing a cough at a classical recital, audience experience is affected by motivation, performance quality, social atmosphere and group and personal identity. Drawing on the implications of these experiences and attitudes, the authors consider the question of what makes an audience, and argue convincingly for the practical and academic value of that question.

Effects of preconception disordered eating on next generation birth outcomes

 This thesis aimed to examine the effects of adolescent disordered eating on next generation birth outcomes. Findings from this thesis revealed a significantly increased risk of small for gestational age births to women reporting disordered eating behaviours in adolescence and evidence of intergenerational patterns of low birth weight births.