Identity Transition Research Articles

Stretched kinship: Queer female university students negotiating family and identity

For lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer + people, family and peer support are often important in their identity development during early adulthood. Young queer adults who have moved out of the family to pursue university education often seek out a sense of community and a feeling of kinship with other LGBTQ+ individuals as they journey through their identity transition. Based on semi-structured interviews with eight self-identified queer female students in a public university in New Zealand, this study examines their experience of ‘stretched kinship’ – moving out from the family (‘leaving home’), building peer connections in shared student accommodations (‘making home’) and developing more independent identities (‘coming out’) in relation to their original and alternative families. This paper helps us make sense of young queer people’s experiences transitioning from the family to university towards independence and adulthood.

Identity Construction of Graduate Students— A Diary Study of Language Majors

The concept of "identity" has been explored in higher education literature over the past two decades, and studies have found that identities are constantly changing and developing. When students enter a new environment, they are faced with new demands. They must adjust their identity to fit the new identity requirements and simultaneously begin a series of identity transitions. While some existing international studies have used different research methods to explore the identity transition of undergraduate and graduate students from different perspectives, few studies have been conducted in China on the identity transition of first-year graduate students. To explore the identity adjustment process of Chinese first-year graduate students majoring in English, as well as influencing factors in this process, this paper uses case study from a qualitative research approach to address the above research questions. The study found that through interaction with teachers, students, and family members, students were able to better understand the demands of graduate studies and get support when they encountered problems in studies and lives, and four students attributed “academic identity” to graduate identity. At the same time, the graduate courses and related assignments helped the students to adjust to their learning process and academic identity, allowing them to acquire the necessary professional academic knowledge and develop their research skills, which were essential for building their academic/researcher identities. The study proposed that the different factors mentioned above differed in their influence on students' identity adjustment due to different individual backgrounds

Metanoia: Rhetoric, Authenticity, and the Transformation of the Self by Adam Ellwanger

Reviewed by: Metanoia: Rhetoric, Authenticity, and the Transformation of the Self by Adam Ellwanger Ryan McDermott (bio) Adam Ellwanger, Metanoia: Rhetoric, Authenticity, and the Transformation of the Self, University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press. 2020. 202 pp. ISBN: 978-0-271-08593-7. This book moves metanoia and related concepts of transformation and conversion to the center of our theoretical understanding of ethos. Whereas for Aristotle ethos had depended on the audience—did they consider the speaker trustworthy?—now the speaking subject determines how ethos ought to be recognized, and the audience must defer to the subject's self-understanding. As a rhetorical device, Ellwanger shows, metanoia is one of the most important means by which subjects can establish ethos in either of these models. This book's consistent concern is to analyze how, precisely, metanoia is employed in the service of ethos in various contexts and rhetorical and ethical models. At its best, Ellwanger's study adopts a comparative method—what he calls "paratactical rhetorical analysis"—that allows different understandings of metanoia to clarify each other by contrast. Ellwanger also approaches his topic diachronically, telling a story of development or transformation in the practices of metanoia. This narrative gives the book its structure, moving from classical and ancient Jewish sources to early Christianity, then the Protestant Reformation, post-Enlightenment modernity, and what Ellwanger characterizes as the postmodernity of today. Each chapter's narrative section culminates with a theoretical elaboration, which is then worked out in a section of comparative examples. This reviewer found the heuristic, second section of each chapter the more effective. For example, Chapter One compares five different Christian conversion stories (all post-1850), including the Sioux Indian Ohiyesa's memoirs of his transition From the Deep Woods to Civilization, two accounts of conversions in China, and two testimonies from members of the rock band Korn. Ellwanger is able to compare these diverse experiences with impressive conceptual clarity. The major conceptual contrast that runs throughout the book is that between metanoia and epistrophe. When speaking of the contrast, Ellwanger characterizes epistrophe as a 360-degree conversion, a return home. He reserves metanoia for 180-degree conversions, which renounce the past self and result in a rebirth, a replacement of the original subject by a "completely" new subject. In Ellwanger's account, all Christian metanoia "is a substitutive transplanting of identity," and it "locates the substitution at the core of one's being" (95). Modern, secular conversions can also involve renunciation of a previous self, but they lean more heavily on epistrophic unveiling of and return to the original, authentic self. Epistrophic conversion never renounces the real self, but rather the former illusion of self. Theoretically, this contrast harbors considerable explanatory power. It helps make sense of why ethos can reside alternately in audience or speaker. When a speaker seeks to establish ethos by claiming that her previous self is dead and she is now a new (and better) self, she might appeal to the audience to authenticate whether she is indeed new and better. But when a speaker [End Page 93] claims to have discovered and returned to her original, authentic self, she expects the audience to acknowledge her authority to authenticate herself. The contrast between ethoi established by metanoic or epistrophic conversion narratives plays out in fascinating ways in the contrast between Bruce Jenner's coming out as gender-transitioned Caitlyn Jenner and Rachel Dolezol's racial transition from identifying as a White woman to identifying as a Black woman. In public responses to each narrative (which unfolded roughly contemporaneously), Ellwanger identifies both metanoic and epistrophic discourses. Each kind was employed by both critics and defenders of the respective claims to identity. The conflict between metanoic and epistrophic understandings of identity transition help account for the intense scrutiny and controversy each story attracted. The weakest part of the book is its narrative of secularization, which frames Christian and modern models of conversion as mutually exclusive. Ellwanger asserts that "in Judeo-Christian thinking metanoia and epistrophe were two fundamentally opposed models of conversion" (100). By contrast, "the definitive feature of modern transformation is a reconciliation of" the two models (p. 143). Likewise, "Christianity is especially...

Chinese Migration to Britain and the Impact of the Cultural identity on the British East Asian Theatr

Cultural identification has a long history that dates back to colonial times. As globalization increased the frequency of cross-national encounters during the 1950s, researchers became more concerned with the question of cultural identity. Globalization had a significant influence on third-world culture in the late 1990s, therefore most researchers paid increasing attention to the question of national culture and national identity. The topic of cultural identity first arose in Britain in the nineteenth century. As a colonist, Britain improved its native culture, while weakening its foreign culture. The emphasis on British national pride in education for all countries distinguishes between internal and exterior cultures. According to Liu (2021), the issue of accepting mainstream culture while rejecting alien culture has entered the ambit of British cultural identity inquiry due to the increase of Chinese immigration to Britain. The history of the Chinese in Britain, the waves of immigration, their identity transitions over time, and numerous related subjects, including the economic and social position of the Chinese in Britain, have affected the new Chinese identity as being exposed in the British East Asian Theatre (BEAs). The aim of this study is to link the development of the British East Asian Theatre with the impact of the changes that happened to the cultural identity of the Chinese migrants in Britain throughout history since the 1880s. The researchers conclude that the various generations of Chinese migration to Britain from the early nineteenth century to the present have gone through many cultural changes. These changes affected their Chinese identity and resulted in a cultural conflict in terms of acculturation and loss of heritage. This is what the British East Asian playwrights try to expose in their theater.

Gravitational susceptibility of QGP

We use ${\cal N}=2^*$ and cascading gauge theory holographic models to extract the general features of the gravitational susceptibility $\kappa$ of strongly coupled nonconformal quark-gluon plasma. We show that in theories with a relevant coupling constant the gravitational susceptibility is renormalization scheme dependent. We propose to use its temperature derivative, i.e., $\frac{d\kappa}{d\ln T}$, as a scheme-independent characteristic of a QGP. Although $\kappa$ is a thermodynamic quantity, its critical behavior can be drastically distinct in the vicinity of seemingly identical thermal phase transitions.

‘The pandemic helped me!’ Queer international students’ identity negotiation with family on social media in immobile times

This article examines queer international students’ negotiation of sexuality and family ties maintenance during the Covid-19 pandemic. In considering the transitions in queer identity making, I highlight the complexity of coming out to parents. The performative dimension of social media allows queer international students to curate selective presentations and connect with their families digitally in immobile times. However, the technological affordance of social media is porous and productive, triggering the possibility of leakage and accidental outings but enabling negotiation afterwards. Drawing on two rounds of in-depth and social media scroll-back interviews with 20 Chinese queer female international students in Australia in 2021, this article identifies the social roles of social media in managing ties between queer international students and their overseas parents ( shielding, leakage, and routing). It also complicates the extant implications of pandemic immobility in a specific context of queer transitions.

Temperature‐dependent kinetics of the reactions of CH2OO with acetone, biacetyl, and acetylacetone

AbstractTemperature‐dependent rate constants for the reactions of CH2OO with acetone (Ac), biacetyl (BiAc), and acetylacetone (AcAc) have been measured over the range 275–335 K using a flash photolysis, transient absorption spectroscopy technique. The measurements were performed at a total pressure of ∼80 Torr in N2 bath gas, which corresponds to the high‐pressure limit for these reactions. All three reactions show linear Arrhenius plots with negative temperature dependences. Rate constants increase in the order Ac < AcAc « BiAc across the temperature range; at 295 K the rate constants are kAc = (4.8 ± 0.4) × 10–13 cm3 s–1, kAcAc = (8.0 ± 0.7) × 10–13 cm3 s–1, and kBiAc = (1.10 ± 0.09) × 10–11 cm3 s–1. Sensitivity to temperature, characterized by the magnitude of the negative activation energy, increases in the order AcAc < BiAc < Ac (Ea/R values of –1830 ± 170 K, –1260 ± 170 K, and –460 ± 180 K, respectively). CBS‐QB3 calculations show that the Ac and BiAc reactions proceed via formation of an entrance channel complex followed by 1,3‐dipolar cycloaddition to form secondary ozonide products via a submerged transition state. For the BiAc reaction, the rate limiting step appears to be rearrangement of a long‐range van der Waals complex into the short‐range complex that subsequently leads directly to the cycloaddition transition state with a very low energy barrier. The calculations show that two reaction pathways are competitive for AcAc with nearly identical transition state free energies (ΔG° = +10.1 kcal mol–1 at 298 K) found for cycloaddition at the C=O and at the C=C site of the dominant enolone tautomer. The weak temperature dependence observed is likely due to competition between these pathways.

Paradigm and Framework of WUS-CLV Feedback Loop in Stem Cell Niche for SAM Maintenance and Cell Identity Transition

Shoot apical meristem (SAM) consists of stem cells that act as a reservoir for the aerial growth. It plays an important role in the differential architectural development in plants. SAM actively performs parallel functions by maintaining the pluripotent of stem cells and continuous organogenesis throughout the plant’s life cycle. Molecular mechanisms regulating the signaling networks of this dual function of the SAM have been progressively understood. In the SAM, the feedback loop of WUSCHEL (WUS)-CLAVATA (CLV) has been found to be the key regulator in stabilizing stem cell proliferation and differentiation. In general, WUS migrates into central zone (CZ) from organizing center (OC) and activates the expression of CLV3 by binding to the promoter elements. CLV3 acts as a ligand to interact with the CLV1, leucine rich repeats (LRR) receptor-like kinase (RLK) and LRR receptor-like protein CLV2, and protein kinase coryne (CRN) (CLV2/CRN) to restrict WUS transcription to the OC. Evolution of CLV3 is one of the main factors contributing to the transformation of two-dimensional (2D) to 3D plants. WUS-CLV loop is involved in several pathways and networks that integrate on meristem maintenance and cell identity transition. WUS-CLV maintains stem cells with simultaneous differentiation signals by the spatial-temporal signaling of the phytohormones. WUS-CLV loop has an interaction with reactive oxygen species (ROS), an important signaling molecules regulating cell proliferation and developmental transition. WUS also forms feedback loop with AGAMOUS (AG) for differentiation, proliferation, and termination of floral meristem. These loops might also involve in interaction with vernalization and its regulatory factors that oversees the precise timing of flowering after exposure to cold temperatures. In this review, we highlight the evolutionary and developmental importance of the WUS-CLV feedback loop on SAM maintenance and cell identity transition for inflorescence and floral meristem development.

Navigating the Contemporary Rites of Passage: A Typology of STEM Professional Identity Transition

Anchored upon a renewed rites of passage perspective, this study employs a narrative inquiry to understand how professional identities are enacted, developed, negotiated, and reconstructed among final year STEM undergraduates in Malaysia. While professional identities are largely studied within the workplace or organisational context, there is limited knowledge of how students make sense of their professional identities during their study. To address this gap, this study explores the dilemmas and dreams of twenty-four final year STEM undergraduates as they were at the critical juncture of transition towards their first full-time career. While the participants shared a common experience of STEM professional identity formation during their childhood and adolescent phases of life, there were variations in how individuals negotiated their professional identities as they reached the crossroads upon university enrolment and graduation. In navigating the liminal phase of uncertainties, negotiation strategies included defending and rethinking STEM professional identities while balancing identities in work and non-work roles. Towards the reconstruction phase, a process of redefining, affirming, and securing STEM professional identity takes place as individuals make sense of their roles and place in the communities. The narrative findings illustrate contemporary dynamics of societal expectations, structural forces and personal agency that facilitate STEM professional transitions. The study also adds insights into emerging discourses surrounding STEM education and talent retention strategies among the contemporary STEM workforce.

Moisture-dependent room-temperature perovskite crystallization in vacuum flash-assisted solution processed intermediate phase films

We propose a straightforward intermediate-phase strategy to facilitate large-area crystallization of perovskite under room-temperature: preparing intermediate phase film with vacuum flash-assisted solution processing (VASP) method and performing controlled moisture-exposure subsequently. Moisture molecules penetrate into the whole intermediate film, remove residual solvent molecules, and trigger room-temperature crystallization of perovskite in a wide humidity range (25–80% RH), while negligible hydroxyl species are observed in the intermediate phase and resultant perovskite films. Without antisolvent, thermal-annealing and additive, high-humidity (80% RH) exposure of intermediate-phase film under room-temperature results in crystalline perovskite with a 8× increase in grain size and a 6× increase in photoluminescence lifetime, which is attributed to the homogenous and stable intermediate phase prepared by VASP and the synergistic effect of H 2 O and residual solvent molecules. Without antisolvent, thermal-annealing and additive, high-humidity (80% RH) exposure of intermediate-phase precursor film under room-temperature results in crystalline perovskite with a 8× increase in grain size and a 6× increase in photoluminescence lifetime. • The intermediate phase strategy applies in the wide range of 25–80% RH humidity. • Moisture exposure under room-temperature induces identical chemical transition. • Negligible hydroxyl species are observed in perovskite and its intermediate. • 80% RH exposure leads micron-size grains and microsecond fluorescence lifetime.

Tuning the magnetic and electronic properties of monolayer SnS2 by 3d transition metal doping: A DFT study

Tin disulfide (SnS 2 ) is a member of the layered metal dichalcogenides family. Monolayer SnS 2 is a semiconductor with an indirect bandgap of 2.43 eV. It is a nonmagnetic semiconductor. In this article, we systematically study the electronic and magnetic properties of 3 d transition metal atom-doped monolayer SnS 2 . The spin-polarized First-principles calculations reveal that Sn-poor condition is the energetically favourable condition to substitute all the 3 d transition metal atoms into SnS 2 monolayer at the Sn-site. We observe that, in all the doped systems, the denser valence bands are filled with the hybridized impurity 3 d and S-3 p orbitals. Here we show that, Sc-doped SnS 2 is a nonmagnetic metal, and Ti and Ni-doped systems are nonmagnetic semiconductors. Single V, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Cu, and Zn atom doped systems with a dopant concentration of 6.25% are semiconductors with an induced magnetic moment of 1, 2, 3, 2, 1, 0.688, and 1.275 μ B , respectively. Among them, Cu and Zn-doped systems are direct bandgap semiconductors. With a dopant concentration of 4.08%, the double Fe and Co-doped SnS 2 monolayers are ferromagnetic half metals with 4 and 2 μ B , respectively. The double V, Cr, Mn and Zn-doped SnS 2 are ferromagnetic semiconductors with 2, 4, 6 and 2.56 μ B , respectively. Ferromagnetic coupling between the two identical transition metal atoms is attributed to 90° superexchange. These results emphasize the importance of 3 d transition metal doped monolayer SnS 2 for spin injection, spin polarized current generation and other spintronics device applications.

'Just pretending': Narratives of professional identity transitions in internal medicine.

Health professional identity transitions involve a dynamic period of liminality prompting a time of considerable uncertainty and self-doubt. For postgraduate trainees in the United Kingdom, the transition to medical registrar can be a significant deterrent to recruitment and retention. Narrative analysis offers insight into identity work during transitions with potential to inform strategies for developing professional identities. This study aimed to use narrative analysis to explore trainees' experiences and their sense of agency during the liminal phase of this transition. Following ethical approval, internal medicine (IM) trainees in their second year of IM training were interviewed. Transcripts were audio recorded, transcribed verbatim and analysed to identify narratives describing liminality during the transition to the role of medical registrar, including examples of rejecting and claiming identity grants. Narrative analysis, as described by Riessman and influenced by James Gee's units of discourse, was undertaken, with an agentive lens applied to the data. Between January 2021 and February 2022, 19 IM trainees were interviewed. Given the in-depth analysis, four narratives were purposively selected to present, including trainees rejecting and claiming the medical registrar role. Trainees tended to describe negative experiences, but those with a higher sense of agency demonstrated positive reflection and identity construction through narrative. There was often identity dissonance between how trainees defined their stage in the transition to medical registrar and how their narrative illustrated their identity work. This study exemplifies narrative analysis' linguistic and agentive lenses in exploring the experience of the liminal identity transitional period. The findings reflect the identity dissonance experienced by trainees during this time and sheds light on their sense of agency throughout. It heralds a need to acknowledge the significant liminality experienced during transitions throughout medical training and to empower a sense of agency to support identity work.

ER-endosome contacts master the ins and outs of secretory endosomes.

What defines whether an endosome follows the degradative pathway or fuses with the plasma membrane to release exosomes? In this issue ofJCB, Fredrik Verweij and colleagues(2022. J. Cell Biol.https://doi.org/10.1083/jcb.202112032)demonstratehow secretory endosomes are guided by ER-endosome contacts to take a cellular detour and several identity transitions for efficient exosome release.

The Transition of Robot Identity from Partner to Competitor and Its Implications for Human–Robot Interaction

The Transition of Robot Identity from Partner to Competitor and Its Implications for Human–Robot Interaction

"We Are Our Own Worst Enemies": A Qualitative Exploration of Sociocultural Factors in Dietetic Education Influencing Student-Dietitian Transitions.

The transition from student to dietitian is an implicit expectation of dietetic education. Although there has been an expanding literature around elements of competency-based education, little attention has focused on sociocultural aspects of learning and professional identity formation in dietetic education. The aim of this study was to explore sociocultural factors in dietetics education influencing the transition into the profession from the perspective of dietetics students and educators. An exploratory qualitative study underpinned by social constructionism. From March 2018 until June 2019, interviews (individual and group) with final-year students (n= 22), dietetic preceptors (n= 27), and university faculty members (n= 51) from 17 of the 18 universities in Australia and New Zealand with accredited dietetic programs were undertaken and explored sociocultural factors in dietetic education. Data were analyzed into key themes using framework analysis and applying the sociocultural theory of landscapes of practice. Sociocultural factors are powerful influences on the student-professional transition. Dietetic cultures and minicultures of cohesion, conformity, competition, and conflict aversion exist. Boundaries exist within learning environments, which can limit or pose challenges to professional identity formation and transition into the profession. Stakeholders involved in dietetics education play pivotal roles in shaping the microcultures students learn and work within, which influence and impact socialization and transition into the profession. Opportunities exist to re-vision curriculum and foster positive learning cultures with a focus on sociocultural learning, including supporting boundary crossing and professional identity development.

Understanding responses to an organizational takeover: Introducing the social identity model of organizational change.

This paper presents a Social Identity Model of Organizational Change (SIMOC) and tests this in the context of employees' responses to a corporate takeover. This model suggests that employees will identify with the newly emerging organization and adjust to organizational change more successfully the more they are able to maintain their pre-existing social identity (an identity maintenance pathway) or to change understanding of their social identity in ways that are perceived as constituting identity gain (an identity gain pathway). We examine this model in the context of an acquisition in the pharmaceutical industry where 225 employees were surveyed before the implementation of the organizational change and then again 18 months later. In line with SIMOC, pre-change identification predicted post-change identification and a variety of beneficial adjustment outcomes for employees (including job satisfaction, organizational citizenship behavior, lower depression, satisfaction with life, and post-traumatic growth) to the extent that either (a) they experienced a sense of identity continuity or (b) their supervisors engaged in identity leadership that helped to build a sense that they were gaining a new positive identity. Results showed a negative impact of pre-change organizational identification on post-change identification and various adjustment outcomes if both pathways were inaccessible, thereby contributing to employees' experience of social identity loss. Discussion focuses on the ways in which organizations and their leaders can better manage organizational change and associated identity transition. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).

Exploring the identity development of the budding neuroscientist at postgraduate level: a mixed-method study with perspectives from alumni and academics

IntroductionNeuroscience represents one of the most exciting frontiers in scientific research. However, given the recency of neuroscience as a discipline, its inter- and multi-disciplinary nature, the lack of educational research on brain science training, the absence of a national or global benchmark and the numerous neuroscience subfields, the development of the academic neuroscientist identity across career stages remains obfuscated. Neuroscience is not predominantly taught at the undergraduate level but presents as a postgraduate specialism, accepting graduates from a wide range of primary disciplines.MethodsThis work represents the first mixed-method study exploring the development of the neuroscientist identity at the postgraduate level at a high-ranking, research-intensive UK University. It combines responses from standardised self-efficacy and professional identity questionnaires and qualitative data from nineteen semi-structured interviews with alumni and academics.ResultsKey findings on influences, identity transitions, curricular skills and sense of belonging have been discussed. The results obtained can be mapped against the theoretical framework proposed by Laudel and Gläser in 2008, although some minor changes to the model have been suggested.DiscussionImplementing active learning strategies and experiential assessments, designing mentoring opportunities and creating spaces for interaction can favour the transition from students to neuroscientists and contribute to an inclusive and diverse neuroscientific community.

Marginalisation and mixed feelings: supporting students of Gypsy, Roma and traveller heritage imagining higher education in the UK

ABSTRACT Gypsy, Roma and Travellers (GRT) are a highly marginalised UK higher education minority with patchy targeted policy interventions. Drawing on qualitative interview data with education professionals working with GRT and with GRT young people, families and activists, the article compares attitudes, expectations, and desires around higher education. Firstly, the way in which university outreach can essentialise GRT people and the need to nuance these regulatory and normative practices is discussed. Tensions for GRT people imagining higher education and navigating complex identity transitions of ethnic invisibility are next explored alongside worries around ‘coming out’. Finally, the article identifies the ‘cruel optimism’ in desiring education as a form of social mobility, particularly when institutions are not inclusive of GRT. From this, an urgent need is identified for contextually-sensitive GRT outreach for the academy’s promises to be meaningfully inclusive.

Exit and transition: Exploring the survival status of Airbnb listings in a time of professionalization

This study analyzes the survival status of shared and non-shared listings in the peer-to-peer accommodation market. Using a large data set from Airbnb in Beijing, we identify 8640 shared listings and 50,741 non-shared listings. We then investigate the exit event and the identity transition event for both types of listings by applying a discrete-time hazard model. Our results suggest that, for the exit event, the two types of listings show significant differences in terms of survival determinants, including response time, tourism specialization, market volume, professionalization, and Covid-19. For the identity transition event, we find that internal flow exists in the market, mainly from shared listings to non-shared listings, and this flow is influenced by certain factors (i.e., capacity, facility, rating, reviews, minimum stay, service quality, tourism specialization, market volume, platform professionalization, and Covid-19).

Hamtramck at 100 Years: Polish Political Power in a Changing City

Abstract In 2022, the City of Hamtramck celebrates its centennial. On January 1 of that year, it also inaugurated a Yemeni immigrant as its first mayor who is not of Polish descent, as well as a completely Muslim city council, including a Polish American convert to Islam. Written by the last Polish mayor in that nearly hundred-year succession, this article combines history and personal experience while looking at the Polish dominance of local politics beginning with the ethnically charged decision to incorporate, continuing through the decades of Polish rule in relation to other ethnic and racial groups in the city, and chronicling the gradual unraveling of that power. While Hamtramck's experience is not unlike that of other former Polonian strongholds, it is also unique in its longevity and the symbolic significance it has come to embody through its very public demographic and political trajectory. This overview of the competition for elected office in Hamtramck provides a lens through which to view the ongoing transition of the city's civic identity.