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Rusi Jaspal is affiliated with the University of Brighton in the United Kingdom and has produced a substantial body of research primarily within the fields of psychology and social sciences. Their work spans several subfields, including sociology and political science, social psychology, clinical psychology, general health professions, and infectious diseases.

The scientist's research covers a variety of topics, with notable emphasis on LGBTQ health, identity, and policy, HIV/AIDS research and interventions, COVID-19 and mental health, adolescent sexual and reproductive health, racial and ethnic identity research, HIV, drug use and sexual risk, as well as social and intergroup psychology.

Among Rusi Jaspal's recent publications are multiple papers related to COVID-19 and its social and psychological effects:

  • Socio-economic inequalities in social network, loneliness and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic (2020, International Journal of Social Psychiatry)
  • Social representations, identity threat, and coping amid COVID-19 (2020, Psychological Trauma Theory Research Practice and Policy)
  • Social support, perceived risk and the likelihood of COVID-19 testing and vaccination: cross-sectional data from the United Kingdom (2021, Current Psychology)

Frequent co-authors in Rusi Jaspal's research include Glynis M. Breakwell, Bárbara Lopes, Ismaël Maatouk, Moubadda Assi, and Brigitte Nerlich. Collaboration with Glynis M. Breakwell is particularly notable, with numerous shared publications.

Jaspal's frequent publication venues reflect a focus on topics related to social, health, and psychological aspects, including:

  • Journal of Homosexuality
  • Mental Health Religion & Culture
  • Sexuality & Culture
  • The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology
  • Journal of Health Psychology

This academic's work exhibits cross-disciplinary engagement, addressing intersecting themes in psychology, social justice, health, and identity. Their research contributes to understanding complex social issues, including the impact of pandemics on mental health and community support mechanisms.

Best Publications

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

    Rusi. Jaspal;Marco. Cinnirella

  • Identity Process Theory : Identity, Social Action and Social Change

    Rusi Jaspal;Glynis Marie Breakwell

  • The construction of ethnic identity: Insights from identity process theory

    Rusi Jaspal;Marco Cinnirella

  • Media representations of British Muslims and hybridised threats to identity

    Rusi Jaspal;Marco Cinnirella

  • Climate change and ‘climategate’ in online reader comments: a mixed methods study

    Nelya Koteyko;Rusi Jaspal;Brigitte Nerlich

  • Human Responses to Climate Change: Social Representation, Identity and Socio-psychological Action

    Rusi Jaspal;Brigitte Nerlich;Marco Cinnirella

  • Perceptions of ‘coming out’ among British Muslim gay men

    Rusi Jaspal;Asifa Siraj

  • When climate science became climate politics: British media representations of climate change in 1988

    Rusi Jaspal;Brigitte Nerlich

  • Language and social identity: A psychosocial approach

    Rusi Jaspal

  • Contesting science by appealing to its norms: readers discuss climate science in the Daily Mail

    Rusi Jaspal;Brigitte Nerlich;Nelya Koteyko

  • Gay Men’s Construction and Management of Identity on Grindr

    Rusi Jaspal;Rusi Jaspal

  • Caste, Social Stigma and Identity Processes

    Rusi Jaspal

  • 'I never faced up to being gay': sexual, religious and ethnic identities among British Indian and British Pakistani gay men.

    Rusi Jaspal

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

    Rusi Jaspal;Glynis M Breakwell;Glynis M Breakwell

  • "Arabic is the language of the Muslims-that's how it was supposed to be": Exploring language and religious identity through reflective accounts from young British-born South Asians

    Rusi Jaspal;Adrian Coyle

  • Media coverage of the Zika crisis in Brazil: The construction of a 'war' frame that masked social and gender inequalities.

    Barbara Ribeiro;Sarah Hartley;Brigitte Nerlich;Rusi Jaspal

  • Images of Extreme Weather: Symbolising Human Responses to Climate Change

    Brigitte Nerlich;Rusi Jaspal

  • Identity change, uncertainty and mistrust in relation to fear and risk of COVID-19

    Glynis M. Breakwell;Rusi Jaspal

  • Identity processes, threat, and interpersonal relations: accounts from British Muslim gay men

    Rusi Jaspal;Marco Cinnirella

  • Fracking on YouTube: Exploring Risks, Benefits and Human Values.

    Rusi Jaspal;Andrew Turner;Brigitte Nerlich

  • Social representations, identity threat, and coping amid COVID-19.

    Rusi Jaspal;Brigitte Nerlich

Frequent Co-Authors

Glynis M. Breakwell
Glynis M. Breakwell University of Bath
Daniel Bar-Tal
Daniel Bar-Tal Tel Aviv University

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