Viral Memories
A Qualitative Study Protocol for Exploring Gay Men's Memories and Experiences of Aids, HIV, and Covid-19 in the UK (ES/X003604/1)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2952158 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jaime García-Iglesias (0000-0002-8841-5635), Sophie Atherton (0000-0001-8332-4139) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Publication date | 2025-07-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Qualitative Methods (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1609-4069 • E-ISSN: 1609-4069 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/16094069251376311 |
| OpenAlex | W4413991153 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 39 |
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 years old living in the UK. This protocol details the context for the research, how it was conducted and some key methodological and ethical considerations when researching memory and COVID-19 experience
2019-20 coronavirus outbreak · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 · Disease · Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV · Infectious disease (medical specialty · Qualitative research · Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2 · Sociology · Children's Rights and Participation · Medicine · Participatory Visual Research Methods · Psychology · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics · Virology
Sexuality
The Gentrification of the Mind
Between two pandemics
Positive Images
Late Modernity and Social Change
Tangled Memories
How to Have Theory in an Epidemic
Telling Sexual Stories
Unlimited Intimacy
On Collective Memory
I Feel Almost as Though I’ve Lived This Before”
PrEP is like an adult using floaties’
It’s history in the making all around us’
I did not have sex outside of our bubble’
New Directions in the Sociology of Collective Memory and Commemoration
The politics and ethics of naming
The privacy and visibility paradox
We’re Not All in This Together
How Can You Write About a Person Who Does Not Exist
How to Have Promiscuity in an Epidemic
Social memories
PrEP Whores and HIV Prevention
How to Be a Healthy Homosexual
Viral Memories
Imposter Participants? Towards a Reflexive Epistemology of 'Suspected Participants
Zoom Interviews
Pixilated partnerships, overcoming obstacles in qualitative interviews via Skype
Skype interviewing
Who cares if you're poz right now
Wanting HIV Is 'Such a Hot Choice
| Citations per year | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |