Using Oxford Brookes Library: a guide for Education and Early Years students in our partner colleges

a guide for Education and Early Years students in our partner colleges on how to make best use of Brookes Library services, whether they come to Harcourt Hill Library or use services onlin

Using the Library when you are off-campus

Guide for Education and Early Childhood students on how to make the most of the Library when they are off-campus (eg on School Based Training, or distance learners). Not the guide for Associate Partner College students, for whom there is a separate gude

More prayer, more community

This article was originally published in The Prophet -- a journal created by and for the students at the Boston University School of Theology (BUSTH) to amplify the voices of STH students by promoting and sharing a range of perspectives on matters of concern including, but not limited to, spiritual practices, faith communities and society, the nature of theology, and current affairs. It serves as a platform for STH students to share their academic work, theological reflections, and life experiences with one another and the wider community.This reflection is part of a collection of responses to the theme: "On Civility and Tolerance: What does theological education entail when worlds collide?

Brookes Library online: a guide for Education students

A guide to Library resources available online, including login procedure, e-books, e-journals and database searching, plus troubleshooting tips. Targeted at Education students so using education-related examples, but could be used by other groups with minor adaptations

E-books for Education students

Brief handout to help Education students find and use e-books from Dawsonera and MyiLibrary. Available both as Word and as PDF

Eugene O'Neill: The man and his work

Thesis (M.A.)--Boston Universit

Living with Fibromyalgia (FM): The Salience ofClinical Subgroups

Fibromyalgia (FM) is an elusive syndrome that affects 2% of the United States population, with health care costs exceeding $20 billion in 1998. FM alters lives with its symptoms and by interfering with everyday life. This dissertation explored the association between subgroups of women with FM and their functional status. The first study examined the effectiveness of an Internet-based health promotion intervention to improve the clinical outcomes for two subgroups of women with FM: those with high Fibromyalgia Impact Questionnaire (FIQ) scores (n = 5) and those with low FIQ scores (n = 5). Single subject design and grouped data revealed that the intervention had mixed results for the two subgroups. The clinical response to the intervention depended on the method of analysis (individual versus group) and the target behavior of interest. The second study examined the associations among objective and subjective measures, and two target outcomes: physical activity and functional status (FIQ total score), and then used the data to classify FM subgroups (n = 72). Using Exhaustive Chi-square Automatic Interaction Detector (Exhaustive CHAID), we developed two models. Model I, with the target outcome of physical activity, yielded 9 distinct subgroups, whose members had characteristics that were significantly associated with very unfavorable to very favorable physical activity outcomes. Model II, with the target outcome of the FIQ total score, yielded 5 distinct subgroups whose members had characteristics that were significantly associated with very unfavorable to very favorable functional status outcomes. The third study used qualitative and quantitative methods to identify clinically relevant triggers of FM flares, experienced by three subgroups women with low (n = 6), average (n = 5), and high (n = 4) FM impact, to explore the effect of triggers on their functional status. Using mixed methods, we were able to substantiate, quantify, and qualify the affects of FM on the lives of persons with FM and the direct consequences of those affects on activities. Overall activity, FM symptoms, and weather were the most prominent triggers. Findings from these studies suggest that the influence of FM on functional status affects women differently based on subgroup membership

Femme-liminale: corporeal performativity in death metal

Given the research undertaken into notions of Dark Leisure (Spracklen, 2013), space becomes an engendered negotiated terrain not only in terms of performing masculine inscribed music such as Death Metal but occupying space within the scene itself. Claiming identity through mapping one's relationship to societal constructs of self and notions of belonging within peripheric and marginalised music forms such as Death Metal means that gender becomes foregrounded. Death Metal in its socio-musical constructs is male; the virtuosity and dexterity required to compose and perform it has its legacy in patriarchal cultural practices such as lead guitar solos and traditional band formations being occupied in the majority by men. There are of course exceptions to the rule but they do not occupy leading positions in the genre. There exists a preconceived notion that girls can’t play guitar, let alone Death Metal because its difficulty levels exceed a traditional three chord structure. Women’s involvement is restricted to either bass under the assumption that it is easier than guitar (White Zombie, Bolt Thrower) or in some instances vocals However this is dealt with as a novelty; Angela Gossow (Ex- Arch Enemy) providing a viable example. Whilst an anti-hegemonic, anti-establishment ideological position is maintained in Death Metal, for women who transgress the boundary between audience member or “girlfriend” of a band member, to performing Death Metal, the liminality of experience means occupying a patriarchal space at the same time as transgressing sexist and sexualised gender tropes. Whilst it can be noted that men within the Death Metal scene do not necessarily knowingly ascribe to societal gender constructs as an overt operational paradigm of behaviour, seeing as no single person can divorce themselves in totality away from contemporary cultural texts and practices, fundamental gender codes underpin interaction on and off stage. For women who perform Death Metal, the choice to either accept or deny constructs of femininity and ‘sexiness’ exists as polemics; to acknowledge the male gaze or to reject it can act as primary signification of manoeuvrability within the scene. This paper seeks to deconstruct notions of gender performativity, subversion and extreme metal in order to present a narrative on liminality, sexualisation and corporeality