Jaime Garcia Iglesias

Thanks!!

I’m delighted to share that I’ve been elected to the Editorial Board of Sociology of Health & Illness alongside Dino Numerato. Thank you so much for those who voted--so excited for this new chapter!

What a pleasure to listen to @oliverescobar.bsky.social and Nuria Capdevila-Argüelles today talk about the future of Spanish democracy at the Spanish Film Festival in Edinburgh!

Thanks so much to Edgar Rodriguez-Dorans for such a generous review in Sexualities of my book The Eroticising of HIV: Viral Fantasies with Palgrave.

doi.org/10.1177/1363...

We have a fantastic opportunity for health professionals (including allied ones) to undertake a funded PhD at Edinburgh.

If anybody is keen on working on sexual health/social aspects, do DM me, very happy to chat!

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Delighted that our poster on conducting rapid research during the mpox outbreak has been shortlisted for the Usher Showcase

And that’s a wrap for @bsa-medsoc.bsky.social 2025 presenting on fear and gay men during COVID!

Thanks to Sally Brown for the pic!

😍What a pleasure it’s been share the floor with @gmthomas.bsky.social
@oliwilliams.bsky.social
@amychandler.bsky.social and Jen Remnant talking about stigma at @bsa-medsoc.bsky.social

Check out the book Recalibrating Stigma: bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/recalibratin...

It was amazing to work with a brilliant collection of authors & my fellow co-editors. Fully agree it's a strong set of books. My personal favourite (after our own of course 👀) is @susannahrfox.bsky.social Rebel Health, I already have it lined up for my module in May '26. Good luck everyone!

What an honour to have our book on HIV and COVID nominated for the Foundation of Sociology of Health and Illness with such amazing books including the fab Selling Immunity!

@bsa-medsoc.bsky.social @nagingtonuom.bsky.social

Cruising as Moral Practice | Los Angeles Review of Books Jordan Osserman reads two recent queer theory books exploring the form and chemistry of sex.

Amazing review on @nagingtonuom.bsky.social’s The Moral Lessons of Chemsex boom in the LA REVIEW OF BOOKS! @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

lareviewofbooks.org/article/crui...

Very excited to be at @bsa-medsoc.bsky.social in @northumbriauni.bsky.social next week to talk about HIV, COVID-19 and gay men's experiences of fear. Spoiler: socio-economic factors are the biggest predictor of fear!

@uoe-eid.bsky.social

We've just published the protocol for our Viral Memories project, exploring how gay men mobilised their memories of HIV to navigate COVID-19.

Check it out open access in the International Journal of Qualitative Methods: doi.org/10.1177/1609...

Today we held the end-of-award event for our Viral Memories project, including a fantastic keynote by Peter Aggleton and a roundtable!

We’re so thankful to everyone who came to hear about our project!

🎓🏳️‍🌈🦠Are you a registered health professional seeking funding for a PhD in a topic related to: sexual health, sociology of health, qualitative or mixed methods?

🫶I'd be supportive of applicants to the upcoming @ukri.org opportunity in January call!

👉DMs open!

@bma.org.uk @bashhuk.bsky.social

⭐️I am standing for election for the Sociology of Health and Illness Editorial Board: forms.gle/1srTUELeV3mm....

Read candidate statements: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/pb-assets/as...

✅You need to be subscribed to Medical Sociology mailing list, register: www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa-j...

#medsoc

🚩Interested in how #imposter participants are identified and prevented? And what this might mean for inclusion?

💙Our new paper in @SocresOnline
is available: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

This was funded by Medical Research Scotland. @britsoci.bsky.social @socresonline.bsky.social

We're delighted to announce that Prof Peter Aggleton will be delivering keynote reflections at our Viral Memories September event.

Peter will talk about matters 'left undone' in relation to HIV and COVID-19 including lessons long unlearned!

Register: eventbrite.co.uk/e/viral-memo...

A copy of the book 'Recalibrating Stigma: sociologies of health and illness' edited by Gareth M. Thomas, Oli Williams, Tanisha Spratt, and Amy Chandler. The front cover of the book depicts a person out at night, lit by the light from a lamppost and looking at posters pasted onto a brick wall that are in the style of the 'WANTED' posters famously associated with the Wild West era of American history. The word 'UNWANTED' has replaced the word 'WANTED'.

We started working on this in 2021 and there is *finally* a physical copy of the book in my hand. It feels great that other people can now read all the great work that's in this collection.

It is available as a free e-book and in paperback:

bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/recalibratin...

Predoctoral clinical research training fellowship Apply for funding to undertake a PhD.

#MedSky Are you a registered healthcare professional seeking a PhD in something related to HIV, sexual health, or social sciences/qual methods?

I'd be happy to support applicants going to the UKRI Predoctoral Clinical Research Training Fellowships: www.ukri.org/opportunity/...

Send a DM.

Full authors:

Delighted to have this correspondence accepted in
@naturemedicine.bsky.social @nature.com
about creative methods to address #AMR.

Link here (sadly behind paywall): doi.org/10.1038/s415...

This is based on the musical about Alexander Fleming: Lifeline lifelinemusical.com

@uoe-eid.bsky.social

Curious about how HIV was remembered during COVID?

Join us on September 1, in Edinburgh, to hear more: eventbrite.co.uk/e/viral-memo...

Concerned about #imposter participants?

In our latest paper in @IJQMonline, we discuss the epistemic implications of imposters and suggest a new terminology: "suspected participants"

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
@bsa-medsoc.bsky.social @britsoci.bsky.social @asanews.bsky.social

For Paul, the difference between #COVID and #HIV is being supported or not by friends. What do you think?

Come to our event on September 1, in Edinburgh, to hear more: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/viral-memo...

Do you agree with Dylan? Was COVID just "HIV again"?

We've interviewed over 50 gay men in the UK to find more about their views of HIV and COVID. Some agreed with Dylan, some didn't.

Join us on Sept 1 in Edinburgh to hear more about what we found: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/viral-memo...

💊Would a cure to HIV lead to the loss of HIV activism?

🧐This is one of the many reflections our participants discussed.

😍Come hear more in our event on memories of HIV and COVID among gay men: eventbrite.co.uk/e/viral-memo...

🫴Edinburgh, September 1

#Academia #HIV #AIDS #COVID

Democracy as if the future mattered: Can democratic innovation change the world? We are delighted to invite you to the celebration of Oliver Escobar's professorship at his inaugural lecture this spring. Wednesday 2nd of April 2025 5.15pm-6.30pm: Lecture in Lecture Theatre G.05 in 50 George Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9LH. Followed by a reception in the Chrystal Macmillan Building foyer (15a George Square) until 7.30pm.

🗓️"Democracy as if the future mattered: Can democratic innovation change the world?"
Delighted to invite you to my inaugural lecture at Univ of Edinburgh this spring @uoe-sps.bsky.social @edinburghpir.bsky.social
Information and registration 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/inaugural-...
Everyone welcome!

🥰Delighted to announce our end-of-project event for
the ESRC-funded ViralMemories project.

🤩Join us in Edinburgh on Sept 1, 2025 to hear about #COVID, #HIV and memories

🫴 Register here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/viral-memo...

@appghiv.bsky.social @bhiva.bsky.social @uoe-eid.bsky.social #publichealth

This is happening next week! I’ll be talking about how COVID has changed HIV (and how it hasn’t!)

www.eventbrite.com.au/e/hiv-and-co...