Queer women and minority stress

his research project firstly considers what is known about Queer women’s experiences of minority stress, and the ways they respond. Then a qualitative project explores and seeks to understand the impact of minority sexual orientation for UK clinical psychology trainees who identify as female and gay or lesbian. Section A: This literature review presents the current theoretical models and empirical data for Queer women and minority stress. It then uses a meta-ethnographic approach to extract primary and second order concepts from thirteen qualitative papers which describe Queer women’s experiences of minority stress and their various responses. Third-order constructs of ‘threat’, ‘response’ and ‘position’ are extracted from this data and a model of how these interact for Queer women is described. Implications of how minority stress may present in Queer women, and the interaction between mental health and responses to minority stress are discussed. Section B: This empirical paper explores the experiences for lesbian/gay women on clinical psychology training, and the impact of minority sexual orientation on personal and professional development. Eight interviews are analysed using Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis. Three super-ordinateand nine subordinate themes emerged relating to psychological, relational and theoretical processes trainees engaged in largely in the absence of a shared reflective practice around sexuality and gender. Implications for training and practice are discussed

Tuning the electronic transport properties of graphene through functionalisation with fluorine

Engineering the electronic properties of graphene has triggered great interest for potential applications in electronics and opto-electronics. Here we demonstrate the possibility to tune the electronic transport properties of graphene monolayers and multilayers by functionalisation with fluorine. We show that by adjusting the fluorine content different electronic transport regimes can be accessed. For monolayer samples, with increasing the fluorine content, we observe a transition from electronic transport through Mott variable range hopping in two dimensions to Efros - Shklovskii variable range hopping. Multilayer fluorinated graphene with high concentration of fluorine show two-dimensional Mott variable range hopping transport, whereas CF0.28 multilayer flakes have a band gap of 0.25eV and exhibit thermally activated transport. Our experimental findings demonstrate that the ability to control the degree of functionalisation of graphene is instrumental to engineer different electronic properties in graphene materials.Comment: 6 pages, 5 figure

Blake's Milton: a critical introduction and a commentary

Ch. 1: Number of copies of Milton: description; where they are found. Ch. 2; Internal evidence for date of composition (1800-4), different from date on title-page. Length of poem discussed briefly, as external references indicate an epic longer than the present work. Ch. 3; Blake and Hayley; Biography of Blake at time of writing Milton, an intensely personal poem. Details of life and character of Hayley (Blake's patron); how he affected Blake's state of mind; Hayley's appearance as Satan in the Milton and other Pelpham references. Ch. 4; Different eighteenth-century attitudes to Milton; Romantic and view of age of sensibility; contrast between Blake's and Dr. Johnson's views of Milton; popularity of Milton's characters in painting. Ch. 5; Blake's chief mythological characters (the four zoas and their female counterparts). Some explanation of their natures, derivations and development throughout Blake's poetry. Their part in the Fall of Man; how they embody Blake's religious and philosophical Ideas; how eighteenth-century Ideas (moralism, extolling nature and rational mind) are symbolised in Blake's poetry.Ch. 6: Blake's four mythological worlds, particularly Beulah, which figures prominently in the Milton. Existence in several worlds or several planes of being at the same time. Golgonooza, city of art, and also image of the body of man.Ch. 7: Preface to the Milton. Blake's rejection of Plato and Greek classidal authors; ideas on the sublime; 'Jerusalem' lyric. Ch. 8: Book I: plate-by-plate commentary. Reasons, for Milton's journey of self-sacrifice; his spiritual battle to cast off self-righteousness and guilt (casting off his spectre); his example inspires Blake.Ch. 9: Book II; plate-by-plate commentary. Descent of Ololon, Milton's female counterpart (also image of his creative work on earth). Both Milton and Ololon freed from spectre. The vision Is highly intense personal experience of Blake's. Ch.10: Description of the half-plates and ten full-plate illustrations (including the frontispiece) to the Milton. Druid symbolism and influence of Blake's brother Robert

Phonons in potassium doped graphene: the effects of electron-phonon interactions, dimensionality and ad-atom ordering

Graphene phonons are measured as a function of electron doping via the addition of potassium adatoms. In the low doping regime, the in-plane carbon G-peak hardens and narrows with increasing doping, analogous to the trend seen in graphene doped via the field-effect. At high dopings, beyond those accessible by the field-effect, the G-peak strongly softens and broadens. This is interpreted as a dynamic, non-adiabatic renormalization of the phonon self-energy. At dopings between the light and heavily doped regimes, we find a robust inhomogeneous phase where the potassium coverage is segregated into regions of high and low density. The phonon energies, linewidths and tunability are remarkably similar for 1-4 layer graphene, but significantly different to doped bulk graphite.Comment: Accepted in Phys. Rev. B as a Rapid Communication. 5 pages, 3 figures, revised text with additional dat

A review of residual stress analysis using thermoelastic techniques

Thermoelastic Stress Analysis (TSA) is a full-field technique for experimental stress analysis that is based on infra-red thermography. The technique has proved to be extremely effective for studying elastic stress fields and is now well established. It is based on the measurement of the temperature change that occurs as a result of a stress change. As residual stress is essentially a mean stress it is accepted that the linear form of the TSA relationship cannot be used to evaluate residual stresses. However, there are situations where this linear relationship is not valid or departures in material properties due to manufacturing procedures have enabled evaluations of residual stresses. The purpose of this paper is to review the current status of using a TSA based approach for the evaluation of residual stresses and to provide some examples of where promising results have been obtained

Development of dispersion strengthened chromium alloys Summary report

Dispersion strengthened chromium alloys with minimal quantities of interstitial impuritie

Electron properties of fluorinated single-layer graphene transistors

This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from the publisher via the DOI in this record.We have fabricated transistor structures using fluorinated single-layer graphene flakes and studied their electronic properties at different temperatures. Compared with pristine graphene, fluorinated graphene has very large and strongly temperature dependent resistance in the electro-neutrality region. We show that fluorination creates a mobility gap in graphene's spectrum where electron transport takes place via localised electron states.We are grateful to A. V. Shytov for useful discussions and A. A. Kozikov for help with measurements, and to EPSRC for funding