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Professor Rusi Jaspal

Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research & Knowledge Exchange), University of Brighton, UK
Verified email at brighton.ac.uk
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[HTML][HTML] Chemsex, identity and sexual health among gay and bisexual men

R Jaspal - International journal of environmental research and …, 2022 - mdpi.com
This article focuses on some of the social, cultural and psychological aspects of drug use in
sexualized settings in gay and bisexual men (referred to as “chemsex”). Using a narrative …

Coping with potentially incompatible identities: Accounts of religious, ethnic, and sexual identities from British Pakistani men who identify as Muslim and gay

R Jaspal, M Cinnirella - British Journal of Social Psychology, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
This study explores how a group of young British Muslim gay men (BMGM) of Pakistani
background in non‐gay affirmative religious contexts understood and defined their sexual …

[BOOK][B] Identity process theory: Identity, social action and social change

R Jaspal, GM Breakwell - 2014 - books.google.com
We live in an ever-changing social world, which constantly demands adjustment to our
identities and actions. Advances in science, technology and medicine, political upheaval …

Metaphors we die by? Geoengineering, metaphors, and the argument from catastrophe

B Nerlich, R Jaspal - Metaphor and Symbol, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
Geoengineering the climate by reflecting sunlight or extracting carbon dioxide from the
atmosphere has attracted increasing attention from natural scientists, social scientists, policy …

Fracking in the UK press: Threat dynamics in an unfolding debate

R Jaspal, B Nerlich - Public Understanding of Science, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
Shale gas is a novel source of fossil fuel which is extracted by induced hydraulic fracturing,
or “fracking”. This article examines the socio-political dimension of fracking as manifested in …

[HTML][HTML] Social psychological aspects of gay identity development

R Jaspal - Current Opinion in Psychology, 2022 - Elsevier
This article focuses upon the social psychological aspects of identity development among
gay men. Key stage-based models of, and contemporary empirical research into, gay …

The construction of ethnic identity: Insights from identity process theory

R Jaspal, M Cinnirella - Ethnicities, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
Ethnicity has received much empirical and theoretical attention in the social sciences. Yet, it
has scarcely been explored in terms of its relationship with the motivational principles of …

Media representations of British Muslims and hybridised threats to identity

R Jaspal, M Cinnirella - Contemporary Islam, 2010 - Springer
Muslims have never before occupied such a central position in the British media, given their
general absence from more 'normalised'representational positions such as in popular …

Socio-economic inequalities in social network, loneliness and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic

R Jaspal, GM Breakwell - International Journal of Social …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: During the COVID-19 pandemic, a focus on isolation and loneliness is
important, especially as social distancing policies (which for some groups involve self …

Climate change and 'climategate'in online reader comments: A mixed methods study

N Koteyko, R Jaspal, B Nerlich - The geographical journal, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Climate change has rarely been out of the public spotlight in the first decade of this century.
The high‐profile international meetings and controversies such as 'climategate'have …