Jaime García-Iglesias
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 234043 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Jaime García-Iglesias |
| PRENOMES | Jaime |
| SOBRENOME | García-Iglesias |
| ASSINATURA | GARCÍA-IGLESIAS J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Edinburgh |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8841-5635 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 28 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 29 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 28 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2020 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
A PPIE-Informed Protocol to Improve Public Engagement With Preventive Eye Care in Lothian, Scotland
Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a major cause of vision loss, with increasing prevalence as populations age. Despite advances in early detection and treatment, late-stage AMD remains irreversible, underscoring the need for preventive strategies and equitable access to care. This protocol outlines a qualitative research project co-developed with public contributors, addressing two priorities: promoting preventive actions to delay progres…
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Beyond the ‘End of Aids’
'Ending AIDS as a public health threat by 2030' has been one of the most powerful organising promises in global health, reshaping research, funding and policy. As the 2030 milestone approaches, however, this promise risks becoming a political end rather than an epidemiological or social success: a moment in which the problem is declared solved while the conditions that sustain the epidemic persist. This commentary critically examines how the 'End…
Gender, sexuality and viral safety
This paper examines the role of dating apps as mediators of intimacy and risk during the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing quantitative and qualitative data from a UK based study of heterosexual and LGBQ+ people’s (lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer plus ‘other’ identified) dating app use, we investigate how users navigated the tensions between their desires for intimate and social connections and the imperatives of viral safety. Existing studies of dating a…
Can dating app cultures support emotional health and well-being in future pandemics
Drawing on survey and interview data from a UK-based study of heterosexual and LGBT+ people's dating app use before, during and after the COVID-19 crisis, this paper explores the resources that such apps provided for supporting emotional health during the pandemic and the possibilities they offer for promoting well-being in future pandemics. The research adopted a mixed method approach and was unique in its engagement with gender and sexuality di…
Rethinking the Role of HIV/Aids Memories in Gay Men's Experiences of Covid‐19 Fear
This paper examines how gay men in the UK experienced fear during the COVID‐19 pandemic, and how these experiences were shaped by memories of HIV/AIDS, ethnicity, socio‐economic position and access to social support. Although much scholarship assumes that HIV casts a long shadow over gay men's responses to subsequent health crises, we explore to what extent HIV memories actually structured COVID‐19 fear. Drawing on 45 semi‐structured interviews w…
Time Well Spent? Rhythms of Dating on Apps before, during and after Covid-19 Social Restrictions
This article examines how the COVID-19 pandemic brought to the fore the disruption of temporal and rhythm norms among dating app users. Based on 53 retrospective interviews, the study found a transformation from short and quick interactions aimed at finding ideal partners to ‘slow intimacy’ characterised by deeper, prolonged conversations. As restrictions lifted, there was a return to previous dating habits, highlighting how what was experienced …
Coping during the Covid-19 pandemic
Introduction : The COVID-19 pandemic posed unprecedented challenges to health and care services, including substance use support, necessitating adaptations to maintain operational continuity. A lack of research exists into the factors that helped substance use services cope and maintain provision. This study aimed to elucidate the organizational resilience factors that assisted a substance use support service in sustaining operations and adapting…
Beyond swipes
This article examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on dating app users’ experiences, revealing how it brought life politics to the forefront. Through 53 in-depth interviews, it investigates the evolution of the dating apps feature, ‘I’m vaccinated’ badges, from symbols of vaccination status to indicators of political attitudes. Users used the badges for self-representation, seeking political homophily and rejecting those with different att…
From Aids to Covid-19, and back again
This paper examines the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on memories and metaphors associated with the earlier AIDS epidemic. It argues that while previous research has focused on how HIV informs COVID-19, the reverse relationship has received insufficient attention. The authors propose a more comprehensive understanding of the issues, using insights from the sociology of memory. Experiences during COVID-19 not only reshape perceptions of HIV i…
Viral Memories
This protocol discusses a qualitative study about gay men's memories and experiences of HIV/AIDS, and COVID-19. The study aims to understand the various ways in which younger and older gay men drew on their memories of HIV and AIDS to navigate COVID-19 and how, in turn, their experiences of COVID-19 re-shaped their memories of HIV and AIDS. To generate this knowledge, fifty semi-structured online interviews were conducted with gay men aged 23-82 …
Imposter Participants? Towards a Reflexive Epistemology of 'Suspected Participants
There is an increased reliance, since COVID-19, on online methods in qualitative research for participant recruitment and data collection. While online methods have some clear advantages, they have also raised 'new' concerns about fraudulent participation in qualitative research that can hamper research rigour. Drawing on a case study of two of our own UK-based projects which investigated intersections of health, sexuality, and social connections…
Imposter Participants
The rise of 'imposter participants' in research - individuals who misrepresent their identities or experiences to gain access to studies 1 - has become a contentious issue, particularly as online research methods have expanded since the COVID-19 pandemic. While existing literature suggests indicators and strategies for identifying such participants, current approaches may risk excluding marginalized groups. This article reframes the discussion, a…
Dating apps as health allies? Examining the opportunities and challenges of dating apps as partners in public health
In recent years, dating apps have become important allies in public health. In this paper, we explore the implications of partnering with dating apps for health promotion. We consider the opportunities and challenges inherent in these collaborations, paying special attention to privacy, trust, and user care in a digital environment.Despite their potential as targeted health promotion tools, dating apps raise significant ethical concerns, includin…
Exploring Dating App Intimacies During Covid-19 in the UK
This protocol outlines a mixed-methods study to explore the dynamics of intimacy on dating apps before, during and after the crisis years of COVID-19 in the UK; how these influenced/were influenced by different gendered and sexual cultures of relating; and their impact on personal resilience, viral risk, and wellbeing. The project examines diverse gendered and sexual cultures, examining the experiences of heterosexuals and LGBT+ communities. Thro…
An Intimate Revolution
This paper investigates the changes in digital practices of intimacy during the COVID-19 social distancing period in the UK, and whether these transformations have persisted in the ‘new normal’. The study employed a mixed-methods approach, collecting quantitative and qualitative data from 824 adults who used dating apps during the pandemic, and conducting 60 in-depth interviews. The study aimed to understand the digital intimate practices of hete…
From training wheels to chemical condoms
This paper explores experiences of PrEP, a HIV-prevention intervention, among bugchasers, gay men who eroticize HIV. While PrEP has been hailed as a "game changer" in HIV-prevention, little attention has been paid to why and how some people may discontinue it in the face of HIV risk, such as bugchasers do. This paper relies on interview data with bugchasers themselves to discuss the process of discontinuation and its effects. The paper argues tha…
Exploring the Promise and Limitations of Autonomous Online Timelines to Understand Experiences of the Covid-19 Pandemic
This article discusses the use of autonomous, asynchronous, timelines to analyse personal and organizational experiences of COVID-19 using an online platform, LucidSpark. We evaluate the benefits and limitations of this approach and highlight findings in three areas: aesthetics, the balance of personal and organizational information, and the identification of key events. We argue that timelines generate fascinating data about participants' person…
The Eroticizing of HIV
PrEP is like an adult using floaties’
PrEP, pre-exposure prophylaxis, is a novel HIV prevention strategy. Highly efficacious, its development and delivery has caused significant debate. This paper explores the ways in which PrEP is signified and some of the new identities it gives rise to through the analysis of PrEP discourses among 'bugchasers'. Bugchasers comprise a niche group of gay men who eroticise HIV and fantasise with or seek to get infected. The research explores how bugch…
We’re Just Fantasizing Aloud Here’
How do fantasies build and destroy online communities? What are fantasies like online? This paper explores how Dennis Cooper's work describes the role of sexual fantasies in online interactions and how The Sluts marks a turning point in Cooper’s conceptualisation of fantasy. In particular, I argue that The Sluts narrates how an online community attempts to manage the tension between fantasy and reality in an anonymous setting. This unresolvable t…
Writing bugchasing ethnoperformance
In this piece, I discuss the creation of ethnoperformance as a method of exploring and representing online spaces. I highlight the need for writing that acknowledges the influence of technology in online communication and argue for the suitability of ethnodrama as a writing method. In particular, I focus on bugchasers – men who fetishize HIV – and their online discussions. Bugchasers’ comments to a forum, articulated as a five act ethnoperformanc…
Viral times, viral memories, viral questions
The maroon boxer briefs
This article addresses both participants' and researchers' erotic arousal during in-depth interviewing and explores how these emotions can be both productive and informative. I briefly overview the scarce literature available and propose a new framework where arousal is considered as playful. I provide three cases from my research where erotic arousal was informative. These reflect on participants' and researcher's arousal through interview trans…
Who cares if you're poz right now
The global COVID-19 pandemic poses new challenges for communities built around certain sexual practices, and some of which have responded by using their previous experiences of HIV. In this article, we undertake an online ethnography of a popular Anglo-American barebackers' forum to understand how HIV and COVID-19 converge and how these men negotiate COVID-19 risk by adapting previous sexual and disease prevention strategies. Barebackers, aka gay…
Wanting HIV Is 'Such a Hot Choice
Bugchasers are gay men who fetishize HIV infection and use the internet to discuss their fetish. Previous research considered bugchasers' online engagements as proof of their sexual identities. This paper contests that view the through the exploration of three cases: Scott, a committed bugchaser; Marvin, who uses the internet as 'bugchasing entertainment' but is not a bugchaser; and Milo, whose bugchasing feelings are blurry and evolving. All thr…
Exploring Dating App Intimacies During Covid-19 in the UK
This protocol outlines a mixed-methods study to explore the dynamics of intimacy on dating apps before, during and after the crisis years of COVID-19 in the UK; how these influenced/were influenced by different gendered and sexual cultures of relating; and their impact on personal resilience, viral risk, and wellbeing. The project examines diverse gendered and sexual cultures, examining the experiences of heterosexuals and LGBT+ communities. Thro…
Who cares if you're poz right now
The global COVID-19 pandemic poses new challenges for communities built around certain sexual practices, and some of which have responded by using their previous experiences of HIV. In this article, we undertake an online ethnography of a popular Anglo-American barebackers' forum to understand how HIV and COVID-19 converge and how these men negotiate COVID-19 risk by adapting previous sexual and disease prevention strategies. Barebackers, aka gay…
Imposter Participants? Towards a Reflexive Epistemology of 'Suspected Participants
There is an increased reliance, since COVID-19, on online methods in qualitative research for participant recruitment and data collection. While online methods have some clear advantages, they have also raised 'new' concerns about fraudulent participation in qualitative research that can hamper research rigour. Drawing on a case study of two of our own UK-based projects which investigated intersections of health, sexuality, and social connections…
Viral Memories
This protocol discusses a qualitative study about gay men's memories and experiences of HIV/AIDS, and COVID-19. The study aims to understand the various ways in which younger and older gay men drew on their memories of HIV and AIDS to navigate COVID-19 and how, in turn, their experiences of COVID-19 re-shaped their memories of HIV and AIDS. To generate this knowledge, fifty semi-structured online interviews were conducted with gay men aged 23-82 …
The maroon boxer briefs
This article addresses both participants' and researchers' erotic arousal during in-depth interviewing and explores how these emotions can be both productive and informative. I briefly overview the scarce literature available and propose a new framework where arousal is considered as playful. I provide three cases from my research where erotic arousal was informative. These reflect on participants' and researcher's arousal through interview trans…
Beyond swipes
This article examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on dating app users’ experiences, revealing how it brought life politics to the forefront. Through 53 in-depth interviews, it investigates the evolution of the dating apps feature, ‘I’m vaccinated’ badges, from symbols of vaccination status to indicators of political attitudes. Users used the badges for self-representation, seeking political homophily and rejecting those with different att…
Imposter Participants
The rise of 'imposter participants' in research - individuals who misrepresent their identities or experiences to gain access to studies 1 - has become a contentious issue, particularly as online research methods have expanded since the COVID-19 pandemic. While existing literature suggests indicators and strategies for identifying such participants, current approaches may risk excluding marginalized groups. This article reframes the discussion, a…
Dating apps as health allies? Examining the opportunities and challenges of dating apps as partners in public health
In recent years, dating apps have become important allies in public health. In this paper, we explore the implications of partnering with dating apps for health promotion. We consider the opportunities and challenges inherent in these collaborations, paying special attention to privacy, trust, and user care in a digital environment.Despite their potential as targeted health promotion tools, dating apps raise significant ethical concerns, includin…
From training wheels to chemical condoms
This paper explores experiences of PrEP, a HIV-prevention intervention, among bugchasers, gay men who eroticize HIV. While PrEP has been hailed as a "game changer" in HIV-prevention, little attention has been paid to why and how some people may discontinue it in the face of HIV risk, such as bugchasers do. This paper relies on interview data with bugchasers themselves to discuss the process of discontinuation and its effects. The paper argues tha…
Viral breedings
Bugchasing is the fetishization of HIV among some gay men. Bugchasers, who thrive in online forums and social media, have generated complex subcultural narratives of the virus as a vehicle for intimacy, connection, and masculinity. While this practice has been addressed from public health and media studies, relatively little analysis has been conducted on their sex stories. In this article, I use the sex story ‘Andy is HIV+’ to explore how bugcha…
My Dream Is My Son”
This article is an exploration of Salomé’s construction of the U.S. American Dream. Salomé is a sixty-seven-year-old immigrant from Guatemala. During eight hours of in-depth interview, Salomé talks about the embodied experience of migration, motherhood, and her view of the American Dream. In this article, I explore issues of representation, voice, and positionality when conducting qualitative research. Salomé’s story is not generalizable to all L…
Viral breedings
Bugchasing is the fetishization of HIV among some gay men. Bugchasers, who thrive in online forums and social media, have generated complex subcultural narratives of the virus as a vehicle for intimacy, connection, and masculinity. While this practice has been addressed from public health and media studies, relatively little analysis has been conducted on their sex stories. In this article, I use the sex story ‘Andy is HIV+’ to explore how bugcha…
Wanting HIV Is 'Such a Hot Choice
Bugchasers are gay men who fetishize HIV infection and use the internet to discuss their fetish. Previous research considered bugchasers' online engagements as proof of their sexual identities. This paper contests that view the through the exploration of three cases: Scott, a committed bugchaser; Marvin, who uses the internet as 'bugchasing entertainment' but is not a bugchaser; and Milo, whose bugchasing feelings are blurry and evolving. All thr…
Writing bugchasing ethnoperformance
In this piece, I discuss the creation of ethnoperformance as a method of exploring and representing online spaces. I highlight the need for writing that acknowledges the influence of technology in online communication and argue for the suitability of ethnodrama as a writing method. In particular, I focus on bugchasers – men who fetishize HIV – and their online discussions. Bugchasers’ comments to a forum, articulated as a five act ethnoperformanc…
Viral times, viral memories, viral questions
The maroon boxer briefs
This article addresses both participants' and researchers' erotic arousal during in-depth interviewing and explores how these emotions can be both productive and informative. I briefly overview the scarce literature available and propose a new framework where arousal is considered as playful. I provide three cases from my research where erotic arousal was informative. These reflect on participants' and researcher's arousal through interview trans…
Who cares if you're poz right now
The global COVID-19 pandemic poses new challenges for communities built around certain sexual practices, and some of which have responded by using their previous experiences of HIV. In this article, we undertake an online ethnography of a popular Anglo-American barebackers' forum to understand how HIV and COVID-19 converge and how these men negotiate COVID-19 risk by adapting previous sexual and disease prevention strategies. Barebackers, aka gay…
The Eroticizing of HIV
PrEP is like an adult using floaties’
PrEP, pre-exposure prophylaxis, is a novel HIV prevention strategy. Highly efficacious, its development and delivery has caused significant debate. This paper explores the ways in which PrEP is signified and some of the new identities it gives rise to through the analysis of PrEP discourses among 'bugchasers'. Bugchasers comprise a niche group of gay men who eroticise HIV and fantasise with or seek to get infected. The research explores how bugch…
We’re Just Fantasizing Aloud Here’
How do fantasies build and destroy online communities? What are fantasies like online? This paper explores how Dennis Cooper's work describes the role of sexual fantasies in online interactions and how The Sluts marks a turning point in Cooper’s conceptualisation of fantasy. In particular, I argue that The Sluts narrates how an online community attempts to manage the tension between fantasy and reality in an anonymous setting. This unresolvable t…
An Intimate Revolution
This paper investigates the changes in digital practices of intimacy during the COVID-19 social distancing period in the UK, and whether these transformations have persisted in the ‘new normal’. The study employed a mixed-methods approach, collecting quantitative and qualitative data from 824 adults who used dating apps during the pandemic, and conducting 60 in-depth interviews. The study aimed to understand the digital intimate practices of hete…
From training wheels to chemical condoms
This paper explores experiences of PrEP, a HIV-prevention intervention, among bugchasers, gay men who eroticize HIV. While PrEP has been hailed as a "game changer" in HIV-prevention, little attention has been paid to why and how some people may discontinue it in the face of HIV risk, such as bugchasers do. This paper relies on interview data with bugchasers themselves to discuss the process of discontinuation and its effects. The paper argues tha…
Exploring the Promise and Limitations of Autonomous Online Timelines to Understand Experiences of the Covid-19 Pandemic
This article discusses the use of autonomous, asynchronous, timelines to analyse personal and organizational experiences of COVID-19 using an online platform, LucidSpark. We evaluate the benefits and limitations of this approach and highlight findings in three areas: aesthetics, the balance of personal and organizational information, and the identification of key events. We argue that timelines generate fascinating data about participants' person…
Dating apps as health allies? Examining the opportunities and challenges of dating apps as partners in public health
In recent years, dating apps have become important allies in public health. In this paper, we explore the implications of partnering with dating apps for health promotion. We consider the opportunities and challenges inherent in these collaborations, paying special attention to privacy, trust, and user care in a digital environment.Despite their potential as targeted health promotion tools, dating apps raise significant ethical concerns, includin…
Exploring Dating App Intimacies During Covid-19 in the UK
This protocol outlines a mixed-methods study to explore the dynamics of intimacy on dating apps before, during and after the crisis years of COVID-19 in the UK; how these influenced/were influenced by different gendered and sexual cultures of relating; and their impact on personal resilience, viral risk, and wellbeing. The project examines diverse gendered and sexual cultures, examining the experiences of heterosexuals and LGBT+ communities. Thro…
Coping during the Covid-19 pandemic
Introduction : The COVID-19 pandemic posed unprecedented challenges to health and care services, including substance use support, necessitating adaptations to maintain operational continuity. A lack of research exists into the factors that helped substance use services cope and maintain provision. This study aimed to elucidate the organizational resilience factors that assisted a substance use support service in sustaining operations and adapting…
Beyond swipes
This article examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on dating app users’ experiences, revealing how it brought life politics to the forefront. Through 53 in-depth interviews, it investigates the evolution of the dating apps feature, ‘I’m vaccinated’ badges, from symbols of vaccination status to indicators of political attitudes. Users used the badges for self-representation, seeking political homophily and rejecting those with different att…
From Aids to Covid-19, and back again
This paper examines the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on memories and metaphors associated with the earlier AIDS epidemic. It argues that while previous research has focused on how HIV informs COVID-19, the reverse relationship has received insufficient attention. The authors propose a more comprehensive understanding of the issues, using insights from the sociology of memory. Experiences during COVID-19 not only reshape perceptions of HIV i…
Viral Memories
This protocol discusses a qualitative study about gay men's memories and experiences of HIV/AIDS, and COVID-19. The study aims to understand the various ways in which younger and older gay men drew on their memories of HIV and AIDS to navigate COVID-19 and how, in turn, their experiences of COVID-19 re-shaped their memories of HIV and AIDS. To generate this knowledge, fifty semi-structured online interviews were conducted with gay men aged 23-82 …
Imposter Participants? Towards a Reflexive Epistemology of 'Suspected Participants
There is an increased reliance, since COVID-19, on online methods in qualitative research for participant recruitment and data collection. While online methods have some clear advantages, they have also raised 'new' concerns about fraudulent participation in qualitative research that can hamper research rigour. Drawing on a case study of two of our own UK-based projects which investigated intersections of health, sexuality, and social connections…
Imposter Participants
The rise of 'imposter participants' in research - individuals who misrepresent their identities or experiences to gain access to studies 1 - has become a contentious issue, particularly as online research methods have expanded since the COVID-19 pandemic. While existing literature suggests indicators and strategies for identifying such participants, current approaches may risk excluding marginalized groups. This article reframes the discussion, a…
A PPIE-Informed Protocol to Improve Public Engagement With Preventive Eye Care in Lothian, Scotland
Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a major cause of vision loss, with increasing prevalence as populations age. Despite advances in early detection and treatment, late-stage AMD remains irreversible, underscoring the need for preventive strategies and equitable access to care. This protocol outlines a qualitative research project co-developed with public contributors, addressing two priorities: promoting preventive actions to delay progres…
El problema del examen MIR es lo que mide
ExplorerEl problema del examen
Beyond the ‘End of Aids’
'Ending AIDS as a public health threat by 2030' has been one of the most powerful organising promises in global health, reshaping research, funding and policy. As the 2030 milestone approaches, however, this promise risks becoming a political end rather than an epidemiological or social success: a moment in which the problem is declared solved while the conditions that sustain the epidemic persist. This commentary critically examines how the 'End…
Gender, sexuality and viral safety
This paper examines the role of dating apps as mediators of intimacy and risk during the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing quantitative and qualitative data from a UK based study of heterosexual and LGBQ+ people’s (lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer plus ‘other’ identified) dating app use, we investigate how users navigated the tensions between their desires for intimate and social connections and the imperatives of viral safety. Existing studies of dating a…
Psychology (16 obras) · Sociology (15 obras) · Medicine (13 obras) · Social Psychology (9 obras) · Computer Science (6 obras) · Qualitative research (6 obras) · Sex work and related issues (6 obras) · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 (5 obras) · Epistemology (5 obras) · Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (5 obras)