Professor Rusi Jaspal

Job: Associate Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research)

Faculty: Health and Life Sciences

School/department: School of Applied Social Sciences

Address: School of Applied Social Sciences, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, De Montfort University

T: +44 (0)116 257 7109

E: rjaspal@dmu.ac.uk

W: https://www.dmu.ac.uk/hls

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Personal profile

Rusi Jaspal is Professor of Psychology and Sexual Health, and Associate Pro Vice-Chancellor Research at De Montfort University. He is also Deputy Director of the Mary Seacole Research Centre at De Montfort University Leicester, UK.He is a Visiting Professor of Minority Research at Abo Akademi University, Turku, Finland.

Rusi Jaspal is a Chartered Scientist, Chartered Psychologist and a Fellow of the British Psychological Society, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Public Health, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, and an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Prof Jaspal is currently Co-Chair of the Medical Board of NAZ: Sexual Health for Everyone, and is a member of the British HIV Association and the DCP Faculty for HIV and Sexual Health.

Rusi Jaspal has obtained degrees from the University of Cambridge, the University of Surrey, and Royal Holloway, University of London. Prior to taking up his lectureship at De Montfort University, Rusi Jaspal completed a post-doctoral research fellowship at the University of Nottingham.

Research group affiliations

Mary Seacole Research Centre

Publications and outputs

A mixed-methods evaluation of ‘The Quest’, a health and well-being intervention for British-based Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic gay and bisexual men
dc.title: A mixed-methods evaluation of ‘The Quest’, a health and well-being intervention for British-based Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic gay and bisexual men dc.contributor.author: Williamson, Iain R; Papaloukas, Periklis; Jaspal, Rusi dc.description.abstract: This article provides an evaluation of a health and well-being workshop based intervention, ‘The Quest’ for gay and bisexual men from British Black Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) communities. A quantitative component assessed reported and intended sexual risk, drugs and alcohol use alongside measures of psychological well-being with pre and post programme data collected from 26 men. Fourteen men participated in focus groups which discussed experiences of the intervention. Significant improvements were found on measures of internalised homophobia, self-esteem and self-efficacy but not for health behaviours including safer sex or substance use. Qualitative feedback was generally positive especially around enhanced psychological well-being, identity integration, and enhanced self-awareness. There were some concerns over group size and whether non-BAME gay men were appropriate as facilitators. Theoretically-informed, culturally competent interventions can demonstrate significant potential in enhancing the well-being of BAME gay and bisexual men but follow-up data are needed to show longer-term benefits. dc.description: Data from evaluation project led by Public Health England The file attached to this record is the author's final peer reviewed version. The Publisher's final version can be found by following the DOI link.
Imaginaries of patienthood: Constructions of HIV patients by HIV specialist health professionals
dc.title: Imaginaries of patienthood: Constructions of HIV patients by HIV specialist health professionals dc.contributor.author: Brown, Brian; Jaspal, Rusi dc.description.abstract: This paper explores the ways in which HIV specialists based in the United Kingdom (UK) construct, conceptualise and imagine their patient group via the concept of the ‘imaginary’, a notion encompassing the symbols, concepts and values through which people make sense of their social environment. In discussing their work with men who have sex with men (MSM), practitioners described patients as knowledgeable and highly adherent to treatment, yet apt to pursue hedonistic lives involving sex and recreational drugs. Recent innovations in treatment were formulated in terms of optimism and progress and the ascent of biomedical approaches was cast as an advance over former emphases on psychosocial interventions and attempts to facilitate behaviour change. In contrast to the imaginary of patients who were well-informed and highly compliant with treatment, participants also sought to explain those who were not easily enfolded within modern treatment regimens or who were seen to be overly emotional. These patients, it was said, had some pre-existing psychological problem or perhaps were especially vulnerable to societal pressures. Overall, the imaginary of the public was pervaded by therapeutic optimism, a sense of progress and an invigoration of biomedical themes in overcoming the challenges of delivering services to MSM. dc.description: The file attached to this record is the author's final peer reviewed version. The Publisher's final version can be found by following the DOI link.
Fifty shades of darkness: A socio-cognitive information-processing framework applied to narcissism and psychopathy
dc.title: Fifty shades of darkness: A socio-cognitive information-processing framework applied to narcissism and psychopathy dc.contributor.author: Lopes, Barbara; Yu, Hui; Bortolon, Catherine; Jaspal, Rusi dc.description.abstract: Existing trait-based and cognitive models of psychopathy and narcissism fail to provide a comprehensive framework that explains the continuum between sub-clinical and clinical presentations of those personalities and to predict associated maladaptive behavior in different social and cultural contexts. In this article, a socio-cognitive information-processing framework for narcissism and psychopathy (SCIPNP) is proposed to explain how psychopathic and narcissistic schemata influence the activation of psychological processes that interact with social and cultural contexts to display those personalities at a sub-clinical level. The proposed framework enables us to predict maladaptive behavior and to explain how sub-clinical narcissists and psychopaths develop personality disorders. The SCIPNP emphasizes the role of culture in shaping motives, appraisals, behavior and affect. Recommendations for future research are provided. dc.description: The file attached to this record is the author's final peer reviewed version. The Publisher's final version can be found by following the DOI link.
Minority Stress among Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual People in the UK: A Service Provider Perspective
dc.title: Minority Stress among Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual People in the UK: A Service Provider Perspective dc.contributor.author: Rehman, Zaqia; Jaspal, Rusi; Fish, Julie dc.description.abstract: Mental health inequalities among Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) people from lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) communities persist and remain under-researched. This study is the first in the UK to explore, from the perspective of service providers, minority stress experienced by BAME LGB people. Twenty-three participants were interviewed and data were analysed using qualitative thematic analysis. Minority stress theory was utilised to inform the analysis, yielding the following themes: (1) Stress induced by conflicting sociocultural norms, (2) interpersonal inhibitors of coming out, (3) and problematic coping. BAME LGB individuals are exposed to stressors due to their intersecting sexual, gender, religious, and cultural identities. Major psychological stressors include stigmatised identity, expectations of a heterosexual marriage, and maladaptive coping strategies. This study sheds light on the potential steps that can be taken to ensure effective coping responses among BAME LGB people. dc.description: The file attached to this record is the author's final peer reviewed version. The Publisher's final version can be found by following the DOI link.
Predicting self-harm in an ethnically diverse sample of lesbian, gay and bisexual people in the United Kingdom
dc.title: Predicting self-harm in an ethnically diverse sample of lesbian, gay and bisexual people in the United Kingdom dc.contributor.author: Rehman, Zaqia; Lopes, Barbara; Jaspal, Rusi dc.description.abstract: Background: Poor mental health is prevalent in lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) people due in part to social stigma. The social, psychological and clinical risk factors for self-harm among LGB people are unclear, which limits our ability to predict when and how this will occur and, crucially, how to prevent it. Aims: Drawing on the cognitive-behavioral approach in clinical psychology, this study identifies the predictors of self-harm in LGB people in the United Kingdom. Results: Women, lesbians, those with lower income and younger people were more likely to engage in self-harm. Self-harmers exhibited much more discrimination, LGB victimization and, thus, internalized homophobia and depressive symptomatology than non-self-harmers. The structural equation model showed direct effects of age and gender, and indirect effects of income and sexual orientation, on self-harm, through the mediating variables of discrimination, LGB victimization and internalized homophobia. Conclusions: Consistent with the cognitive-behavioral model, the results indicate that exposure to situational stressors can increase the risk of developing a self-hatred and depressive psychological self-schema, resulting in greater risk of self-harm as a maladaptive coping strategy. An integrative clinical intervention for enhancing psychological wellbeing in LGB people is proposed to mitigate the risk of self-harm in this population
Barriers to HIV Treatment as Prevention (TasP) in men who have sex with men in the Eastern Mediterranean Region
dc.title: Barriers to HIV Treatment as Prevention (TasP) in men who have sex with men in the Eastern Mediterranean Region dc.contributor.author: Maatouk, Ismael; Jaspal, Rusi dc.description.abstract: The significant reduction in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) viremia to ‘undetectable’ levels (HIV plasma viral load < 40 copies/ml) in response to effective antiretroviral therapy (ART) removes the risk of HIV transmission.1 This approach, known as ‘treatment as prevention’ (TasP), has proven to be successful especially in men who have sex with men (MSM) and in other key populations. In view of the demonstrable effectiveness of TasP, significant efforts have been made to increase public awareness and understanding of this approach in western, industrialized societies, such as the USA and the UK. However, this has not been the case in the Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR according to World Health Organization (WHO) includes Afghanistan, Bahrain, Djibouti, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syrian Arab Republic, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates and Yemen), in which HIV remains a highly stigmatized condition, which is seldom discussed mainly because of its association with MSM—a stigmatized group in EMR society. In this editorial, we discuss the effectiveness of TasP in major observational studies and current levels of public understanding of, and belief in, TasP, with a focus on MSM in the EMR. We argue that by increasing the awareness and understanding of TasP in MSM in the EMR could enable the epidemic to move closer toward the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) target of 90-90-90 (The UNAIDS ‘90-90-90’ strategy calls for 90% of HIV-infected individuals to be diagnosed by 2020, 90% of whom will be on ART and 90% of whom will achieve sustained virologic suppression. Reaching these targets by 2020 will reduce the HIV epidemic to a low-level endemic disease by 2030). dc.description: The file attached to this record is the author's final peer reviewed version. The Publisher's final version can be found by following the DOI link.
Sexual health perceptions among first-year students at a British university
dc.title: Sexual health perceptions among first-year students at a British university dc.contributor.author: Jaspal, Rusi dc.description.abstract: First-year undergraduate students in the United Kingdom undergo significant change in their lives as they embark upon their university experience. They may be exposed to various social and psychological factors that increase their risk of poor sexual health. Indeed, epidemiological data suggest that young people (including students) face sexual health inequalities compared to the general population. People’s perceptions are key to understanding their behavior. This study explores the sexual health perceptions of a group of first-year students at a British university. Sixteen heterosexual students were interviewed, and the data were analysed using qualitative content analysis. The analysis revealed three content categories: (1) sexual freedom and exploration at university, (2) university environmental sexual risk factors, and (3) stigma as a barrier to sexual health. These risk factors can undermine sexual health outcomes in students in the long term and should therefore be considered in sexual health education programs for university students in the United Kingdom. It is argued that the incorporation of social and psychological factors into such programs will lead to more effective sexual health promotion in this high-risk population. dc.description: The file attached to this record is the author's final peer reviewed version. The Publisher's final version can be found by following the DOI link.
A Structural Equation Model for Predicting Depressive Symptomatology in Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual People in the UK
dc.title: A Structural Equation Model for Predicting Depressive Symptomatology in Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual People in the UK dc.contributor.author: Jaspal, Rusi; Lopes, Barbara; Rehman, Zaqia dc.description.abstract: This study identifies the predictors of depressive symptomatology in Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) people in the UK. 289 White and BAME LGB individuals participated in a cross-sectional survey. BAME participants exhibited significantly more discrimination, rejection from significant others, ethnic victimization, internalized homophobia and concealment motivation than White participants. They manifested greater internalized homophobia, less outness and greater drug use than White participants. Outness was associated with less depressive symptomatology, and internalized homophobia and victimization with more depressive symptomatology. The structural equation model showed a significant effect of ethnicity on depressive symptomatology. This relationship was mediated by the situational stressors, the psychological schemata and coping variables. Consistent with the cognitive-behavioral model, the results indicate that exposure to situational stressors can increase the risk of developing a self-hatred and depressive psychological self-schema, maladaptive coping strategies and depressive symptomatology in BAME LGB people in the UK. dc.description: The file attached to this record is the author's final peer reviewed version. The Publisher's final version can be found by following the DOI link.
Content analysis, thematic analysis and discourse analysis
dc.title: Content analysis, thematic analysis and discourse analysis dc.contributor.author: Jaspal, Rusi dc.description.abstract: LEARNING OBJECTIVES By the end of this chapter, readers should understand: • The main tenets of content analysis, thematic analysis and discourse analysis; • The assumptions of, approaches within, and applications of these methodologies; • The stages of analysis in studies using content analysis, thematic analysis and discourse analysis; • How to conduct content analysis, thematic analysis and discourse analysis in relation to the same text; • How to evaluate studies using content analysis, thematic analysis and discourse analysis; • The potential pitfalls of the three approaches.
Parental reactions to British South Asian young men who identify as gay.
dc.title: Parental reactions to British South Asian young men who identify as gay. dc.contributor.author: Jaspal, Rusi dc.description.abstract: Abstract: British South Asian gay men may face significant psychological distress as a result of parental rejection due to their sexual orientation. This study is the first in the UK to examine parental reactions to British South Asian young men who come out as gay. Twelve British South Asian parents participated in ‘conversational enquiries’, a series of unstructured interviews, which explored their experiences of having a son come out as gay. The data were analyzed using qualitative thematic analysis and identity process theory. Three themes are described. First, threats to self-esteem and continuity associated with having a gay son are described. Second, it is shown that parents favored and, in some cases, continue to favor denial of the fact, or implications, of their son’s coming out. Third, parents may deem isolation from significant others to be necessary in order to avoid social stigma due to their sons’ sexual orientation. Recommendations are supporting the parents of British South Asian young men who identify as gay. dc.description: The file attached to this record is the author's final peer reviewed version. The Publisher's final version can be found by following the DOI link.

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Research interests/expertise

Social psychological aspects of self and identity
Sexual health, sexual identity and sexual behaviour
Psychological aspects of HIV/ AIDS
Epidemiological aspects of HIV/AIDS
HIV prevention
Intergroup relations
Social representations
Political psychology

Qualifications

M.A. (University of Cambridge), M.Sc. (University of Surrey), Ph.D. (Royal Holloway, University of London), CPsychol, CSci, FBPsS, FRSPH, FRSA

Courses taught

M.Sc. research supervision
Ph.D. research supervision

Honours and awards

2014 DMU Vice-Chancellor's Future Research Leader
2014 British Climate Change Study Group Award for one of the best papers on the sociology of climate change
2012 Outstanding Research by an Early Career Scholar Prize, Qualitative Methods in Psychology Section, British Psychological Society Awarded for “Jaspal, R. & Cinnirella, M. (2010). Coping with potentially incompatible identities: accounts of religious, ethnic and sexual identities from British Pakistani men who identify as Muslim and gay. British Journal of Social Psychology, 49(4), 849-870.
2011 Certificate for ‘Highly Commended’ essay for the Changing Faces Essay Prize 2011, Changing Faces, UK Essay entitled ‘Disfigurement: the challenges for identity and the strategies for coping’ (published in Psychological Studies (Springer) in 2012.
2011 Joint third prize for the Poster Competition at the Science, Technology and Society Launch Event, University of Nottingham Poster entitled ‘1988 – When climate change entered the political arena: a social representations analysis of British broadsheet coverage’

Membership of external committees

Medical Board Member, NAZ: Sexual Health for Everyone

Membership of professional associations and societies

Royal Society for Public Health (Fellow)
British HIV Association (Member)
International AIDS Society (Member)
British Psychological Society (BPS) (Chartered Psychologist & Fellow)
Social Psychology Section (BPS) (Chartered Psychologist & Fellow)
Science Council (Chartered Scientist)
Royal Society of Arts (Fellow)

Projects

Please see the Mary Seacole Research Centre website for more information about Prof Jaspal's current projects.

Conference attendance

2017

Jaspal, R. (2017). Reconciling ethnicity, faith and sexuality: British South Asians in the Midlands. Paper presented at the Leicester LGBT Conference, Leicester, UK, 17 February 2017.

Jaspal, R. (2017). Identity and sexual health among BME MSM in the UK. Paper presented at Pink Therapy's 5th Annual Conference, London, 25 March 2017.

Jaspal, R. (2017). Enhancing sexual health, self-identity and wellbeing among men who have sex with men: Insights from psychology. Paper presented at the International Congress of Health Education & Research, Porto, Portugal, 28 June 2017.

2016

Jaspal, R. (2016). Developing effective sexual health interventions among black and minority ethnic men who have sex with men. Paper presented at the Improving the Health and Wellbeing of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans People and Communities Conference, Public Health England, London, 14 January 2016.

Jaspal, R., Fish, J., Williamson, I. & Papaloukas, P. (2016). Measuring the impact of sexual health interventions among black and minority ethnic men who have sex with men. Poster presented at the Improving the Health and Wellbeing of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans People and Communities Conference, Public Health England, London, 14 January 2016.

Jaspal, R., Jamal, Z., Paccoud, I. & Sekhon, P. (2016). Sexual health knowledge, attitudes and practices among BAME MSM: a correlational study. Poster presented at the Improving the Health and Wellbeing of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans People and Communities Conference, Public Health England, London, 14 January 2016.
Jaspal, R. (2016). The social psychology of sexuality and religion: some data from British Muslim gay men. Invited lecture presented as part of the Queering Islam Lecture Series, University of Leicester, 27 January 2015.

Jaspal, R. (2016). Faith and sexuality in focus: insights from psychology. Invited lecture presented at Derbyshire County Council, Matlock, 10 February 2016.

Jaspal, R. (2016). Sexual health and novel approaches to HIV prevention among gay and bisexual men. Paper presented at the DMUPride 2016 Open Lecture Series, De Montfort University, Leicester, 11 February 2016.

Jaspal, R. (2016). "I want to be who I am": reflections on identity, threat and coping. Professorial Lecture, De Montfort University, Leicester 15 March 2016.

Jaspal, R. (2016). Health and identity processes among HIV-positive Latin American men who have sex with men in London. 2nd International Conference on LGBT Psychology & Related Fields, State University of Rio, Brazil, 10 March 2016.

Jaspal, R. (2016). "I want to be who I am": reflections on identity, threat and coping. Professorial lecture, De Montfort University Leicester, 15 March 2016.

Jaspal, R. (2016). Accounts of managing multiple linguistic identities among British South Asians of religious faith. Paper presented at the Language, Performance and Identity AHRC International Symposium, Roehampton University, 21-22 March 2016.

Jaspal, R. (2016). Sexual health knowledge, attitudes and practices among BAME MSM: a mixed methods study. Poster presented at 22nd Annual Conference of BHIVA, Manchester, 19-22 April 2016.

Jaspal, R. (2016). Social representations of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV prevention. Paper presented at the 17th IUSTI World Conference, Marrakesh, Morocco, 9-12 May 2016.

Jaspal, R. (2016). Social representations of biomedical approaches to HIV prevention among men who have sex with men. Paper presented at ASSHH UK Conference: Continuing Critical Conversations about HIV. London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, 20 June 2016.

Jaspal, R. (2016). Social representations of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), an emerging HIV prevention option. Paper presented at the 16th Congress of the European Society for Health and Medical Sociology, Geneva, Switzerland, 27-29 June 2016.

Jaspal, R. (2016). Sexual identity, behaviour and health among South Asian MSM: challenges & opportunities. Invited lecture presented at Barts Health NHS Trust, 20 July 2016.

Jaspal, R., Williamson, I. & Papaloukas, P. (2016). Exploring identity and sexual health management strategies among Colombian MSM in London. Poster presented at the Public Health England Annual Conference, University of Warwick, 14 September 2016.

Jaspal, R. (2016). Engaging BME communities on sexual identity and sexual health. Paper presented at the DMU Black History Season Speed Lecture Series, De Montfort University, 26 October 2016.

Jaspal, R. (2016). The role of the social sciences in HIV research: challenges and opportunities. Invited lecture presented as part of the #DMULocal Research Festival Series, De Montfort University Leicester, 9 November 2016.

Jaspal, R. (2016). The construction of sexual identities among Iranian MSM in the UK: implications for sexual health. Paper presented at the New Forms of Trans-Border Mobilitity Conference, 10-12 November 2016.

Jaspal, R. (2016). PrEP acceptability in MSM in the UK: identity, stigma and health. Paper presented at the Trade Sexual Health 17th Annual General Meeting, Trade Sexual Health, Leicester, 8 December 2016.

Key articles information

BOOKS

Jaspal, R. (2014). Antisemitism and anti-Zionism: representation, cognition and everyday talk. Farnham: Ashgate.

Jaspal, R. & Breakwell, G.M. (2014). Identity process theory: identity, social action and social change. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS

Submitted

Jaspal, R. Anti-Zionism in the Iranian press: insights from social psychology.

Jaspal, R., Lopes, B., Jamal, Z., Paccoud, I., Sekhon, P. & Wadibia, M. Sexual abuse and HIV risk behaviour among black and minority ethnic men who have sex with men in the UK.

Jaspal, R. & Williamson, I. Identity management strategies among HIV-positive Colombian men who have sex with men (MSM) in London.

Lopes, B., Kamau, C. & Jaspal, R. Coping with perceived abusive supervision in the workplace: the role of paranoia

Ribeiro, B., Hartley, S., Nerlich, B. & Jaspal, R. Media coverage of Zika in Brazil: How a 'war' frame masks social and gender equalities.

In press

Collins, L., Jaspal, R. & Nerlich, B. (in press). Who or what has agency in the discussion of antibiotic resistance in the UK press (2010-2015)? A transitivity analysis. Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness & Medicine.

Daramilas, C. & Jaspal, R. (in press). Measuring quality of care: A patient satisfaction perspective. Social Psychological Review.

Jaspal, R. (in press). Antisemitism and anti-Zionism in the British Pakistani Muslim community. In J.G. Campbell & L.D. Klaff (eds) Unity and Diversity in Contemporary Antisemitism: The Bristol-Sheffield Hallam Colloquium on Contemporary Antisemitism. Brighton, MA: Academic Studies Press.

Jaspal, R. (in press). Homosexuality and Islam: Identity, threat and health among Muslim men who have sex with men (MSM). In M. Ryan and H. Rizzo (eds.), Sexualities in the Contemporary Middle East. Boulder, CO: Lynne Riener Publishers.

Jaspal, R. & Nerlich, B. (in press) Polarised Reporting about HIV Prevention: Social Representations of Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) in the UK Press. Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine.

Lopes, B., Kamau, C. & Jaspal, R. (in press). The roles of socioeconomic status, occupational health and job rank on the epidemiology of different psychiatric symptoms in a sample of UK workers. Community Mental Health Journal.

Mitha, K., Adatia, S. & Jaspal, R. (in press). Two cultures, one identity: Formulations of Australian Isma'ili Muslim identity. Contemporary Islam.

2017

Jaspal, R. (2017). Coping with ethnic prejudice on the gay scene: British South Asian gay men. Journal of LGBT Youth, 14(2), 172-190

Jaspal, R. (2017). Gay men's construction and management of identity on Grindr. Sexuality & Culture, 21(1),187-204.

2016

Daramilas, C. & Jaspal, R. (2016). HIV diagnosis and identity processes among men who have sex with men (MSM) in London, Athens and New York. Social Psychological Review, 18(2), 6-16

Fish, J., Papaloukas, P., Jaspal, R., Williamson, I. (2016). Equality in sexual health promotion: a systematic review of effective interventions for black and minority ethnic men who have sex with men. BMC Public Health 16(810)

Jaspal, R. (2016). Identity - Social Psychological Aspects. In J. Stone, R. Dennis, P. Rizova, A. Smith, and X. Hou (eds.), Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity and Nationalism. Wiley-Blackwell.

Jaspal, R. (2016). "I have two homelands": constructing and managing Iranian Jewish and Persian Israeli identities. Israel Affairs 22(2), 423-443.

Jaspal, R. (2016). Homosexuality and Islam. In A. Wong, M. Wicktramasinghe & R.C. Hoogland (eds.), Encyclopaedia of Gender and Sexuality Studies. Wiley-Blackwell.

Jaspal, R. (2016). Muslim LGB people. In A. Goldberg (ed.), The SAGE Encyclopedia of LGBTQ Studies (pp. 803-806). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Jaspal, R. (2016). Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis: Identity Stigma and Activism. In P. Reilly, A. Veneti & D. Atanasova (eds.), Politics, Protest, Emotion: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (pp. 162-168). Pressbooks.

Jaspal, R. (2016). Grindr, chemsex and self-esteem. FS Magazine, 155, 30-31.

Jaspal, R. (2016). What is it really like to be Black or Asian and gay? FS Magazine, 152, 36-38.

Jaspal, R., Carriere, K. & Moghaddam, F. (2016). Bridging micro, meso and macro processes in social psychology. In J. Valsiner, G. Marsico, N. Chaudhary, T. Sato & V. Dazzani (eds.), Psychology as a science of human being: The Yokohama Manifesto. New York: Springer.

Jaspal, R. & Daramilas, C. (2016). Perceptions of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) among HIV-negative and HIV-positive men who have sex with men. Cogent Medicine. 3: 1256850.

Jaspal, R. & Nerlich, B. (2016). A "morning-after" pill for HIV? Social representations of post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) for HIV in the British print media. Health, Risk & Society, 18(5-6), 225-246.

Jaspal, R., Nerlich, B. & van Vuuren, K. (2016). Embracing and resisting climate identities in the Australian press: sceptics, scientists and politics. Public Understanding of Science, 25(7), 807-824

Jaspal, R. & Takhar, O.K. (2016). Caste and Identity Processes among British Sikhs in the Midlands. Sikh Formations, 12(1), 87-102.

Current research students

I currently supervise the following PhD students:

Sebastian Cordoba, Social psychology of non-binary gender identities
Iman Naser El-Deen, Intercultural communication and learning in Kuwaiti schools
Zaqia Rehman, Mental health outcomes among South Asian LGB people

Externally funded research grants information

2015 NAZ: Sexual Health For Everyone, Supporting People Living with HIV (£10,000)
2014 Public Health England (£40,000) Sexual health and psychological wellbeing among Black and minority ethnic men who have sex with men.
2012 Iran Media Program, Annenberg Public Policy Center (value $3600) Principal investigator on project entitled ‘Representing the “Arab Spring”: A critical discourse analysis of the Iranian media’
2012 Health and Medical Science Research Fund, Surrey University (value £4606) Co-investigator on project entitled ‘The Impact of Living in a Positive-Aging Retirement Community on Health and Well-being in Older People’
2011 Science, Technology and Society Research Development Funds (value £1320) Co-investigator on project entitled ‘Making sense of nuclear power in the context of climate change and natural disasters: an exploration of public concerns using a mixed-methods
2010 Victoria Hazlitt Memorial Fund (value £250) Awarded for project ‘National and ethnic identification and the impact for identity processes’ Royal Holloway, University of London
2009 Central Research Fund (value £1200) Awarded for project ‘Ethnolinguistic vitality and identity threat: The case of Bill 104’ University of London
2009 Victoria Hazlitt Memorial Fund (value £300) Awarded for research project entitled “Language attitudes and identity” Royal Holloway, University of London
2008 Thomas Holloway Full StudentshipAwarded for Ph.D. research (3 years)Royal Holloway, University of London
2008 Research scholarship (value £750) Awarded for ‘Learning for a Complex World’ project SCEPTrE, University of Surrey

Professional esteem indicators

Professor Rusi Jaspal book reviews editor of Israel Affairs.

He serves on the editorial boards of

Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology
European Journal of Social Psychology

He has examined several PhD theses at universities in the UK and Australia.

Prof Jaspal has reviewed for the following publications:

Ashgate Publishing Company
Basic and Applied Social Psychology (Taylor and Francis)
British Journal of Social Psychology (British Psychological Society)
Culture, Health & Sexuality (Taylor & Francis)
Culture and Psychology (SAGE)
Energy Policy (Elsevier)
Environmental Values (Whitehorse)
European Journal of Social Psychology (SAGE)
Environment & Planning A
Identity: An International Journal of Theory and Research (Taylor and Francis)
International Criminal Justice Review (SAGE)
Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology (John Wiley and Sons)
Journal of Environmental Communication (Taylor & Francis)
Journal of Homosexuality (Taylor and Francis)
Journal of Social and Political Psychology (PsychOpen)
Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture
Ethnicities (SAGE)
Journal of Interpersonal Relations, Intergroup Relations and Identity (Université de Montréal)
Mental Health, Religion and Culture (Taylor and Francis)
Metaphor and the Social World (John Benjamins)
Personal Relationships (SAGE)
Progress in Psychology
Public Understanding of Science (SAGE)
Routledge books
Science as Culture (Taylor and Francis)
Springer books

Case studies

Watch an interview with Prof Jaspal regarding his research into homosexuality in British Asian society. Read an interview with Prof Jaspal regarding his career in psychology.