Richard Mole

University College London | UCL · School of Slavonic and East European Studies

The use of data and algorithms in the social sciences allows for exciting progress, but also poses epistemological challenges. Operations that appear innocent and purely technical may profoundly influence final results. Researchers working with data can make their process less arbitrary and more accountable by making theoretically grounded methodol...

The use of data and algorithms in the social sciences allows for exciting progress, but also poses epistemological challenges. Operations that appear innocent and purely technical may profoundly influence final results. Researchers working with data can make their process less arbitrary and more accountable by making theoretically grounded methodol...

This study presents a mixed methods approach to researching populism in relation to LGBTQ+ issues in Czechia, Germany and Poland. It combines a semantic network analysis (SSNA) of the discourse of selected media outlets, including those identified as populist or manipulative (Parlamentní listy /CZ, Junge Freihet /D and Gazeta Polska /PL) and questi...

Opposition to sexual minority rights in Poland is among the highest in the EU. Populist political actors in the country repeatedly scapegoat gays and lesbians, presenting them as a threat to the Polish nation and its shared norms and values, particularly those derived from religion. Building upon previous research which shows how discourse construc...

Preprint available: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10059142

Drawing on the experience of Russian-speaking queer migrants in Berlin, the article furthers our understanding of queer migration by analyzing the motivations and integration strategies of LGBQ migrants, as well as their attempts to maintain and perform both their sexual and national identities in the post-migration context. The risk that they coul...

Introduction to “Soviet and Post-Soviet Sexualities” - Volume 77 Issue 1 - Richard C. M. Mole

Double Life: A Short History of Sex in the USSR. Dir. Ināra Kolmane. New York: Icarus Films, 2017. 52 min. Color and black and white. $390.00. - Volume 77 Issue 4 - Richard C. M. Mole

Based upon a survey of more than three thousand respondents and forty in-depth interviews, the aim of this article is to examine the impact of migration on sexual resocialisation. In particular, we show how living in London influenced the attitudes of Central and east european migrants towards premarital sex and homosexuality. While the general acc...

In terms of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights, few organizations have done as much to promote the legal equality of sexual minorities as the European Union (EU). Especially since the inclusion of sexual orientation in the equalities agenda through Article 19 of Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU; formerly Artic...

Background Building on an earlier quantitative study which found that gay/bisexual men from Central and Eastern Europe were at greater risk of sexual ill health following migration to the UK, the aim of this qualitative study is to explore how the process of migration itself may have influenced the migrants’ sexual behaviour and attitudes. Methods...

Accession of 10 Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries to the E.U. resulted in the largest migratory influx in peacetime British history. No information exists on the sexual behaviour of CEE migrants within the U.K. The aim of this study was to assess the sexual lifestyles and health service needs of these communities. A survey, delivered ele...

There has been a large influx of central and east European (CEE) migrants to the U.K. following the expansion of the European Union. This paper examines factors associated with genitourinary medicine (GUM) clinic attendance and sexually transmitted infection (STI) diagnosis among CEE migrants in London. A survey of sexual behaviour was conducted am...

Following the expansion of the European Union, there has been a large influx of Central and East European (CEE) migrants to the UK. CEE men who have sex with men (MSM) represent a small minority within this population that are none-the-less important to capture in sexual health research among the CEE migrant community. This paper examines the feasi...

Since May 2004, 10 central and east European (CEE) countries have joined the European Union. While HIV rates remain low among men who have sex with men (MSM) in CEE countries, there is no research on the sexual behaviour of CEE MSM in the U.K. CEE MSM living in the U.K. (n=691) were recruited for an online questionnaire by two popular MSM websites....

Three studies tested the effects of essentialist beliefs regarding the national ingroup in situations where a perpetrator group has inflicted harm on a victim group. For members of the perpetrator group, it was hypothesised that ‘essentialism’ has a direct positive association with ‘collective guilt’ felt as a result of misdeeds conducted by other...

This paper considers why attitudes towards gays and lesbians in Latvia appear to be more intolerant than in all other EU member states. The paper argues that while the legacy of communist discourses on homosexuality and the impact of post-communist transition have played a role in shaping attitudes towards sexuality and sexual minorities in Central...

Since May 2004, ten Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries have joined the European Union, leading to a large influx of CEE migrants to the United Kingdom (UK). The SALLEE project (sexual attitudes and lifestyles of London's Eastern Europeans) set out to establish an understanding of the sexual lifestyles and reproductive health risks of CEE...

To describe the service use of migrants from eight central and eastern European (CEE) countries at two central London genitourinary medicine (GUM) clinics before and after accession to the European Union on 1 May 2004. KC60 data collected between 1 June 2001 and 30 April 2007. Data refer to new attendances and exclude those attending for follow-up...

A study was conducted among young Latvians to test the effects of different conceptualizations of Latvian national identity on group beliefs and on attitudes towards Russians. It was hypothesized that exposure to inclusive discourse presenting Latvia as a multicultural society rather than an ethnic homeland would have a direct negative effect on fe...

Over the years the impact of European integration on national identity has generated reams of newspaper editorials and ignited heated discussion among politicians, opinion-formers and everyday citizens across the continent. In the 1990s debates in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania about membership of European political, economic and security organisati...

The conduct of European politics has undergone a major shift since the end of the Cold War. The end of the nuclear stand-off between the superpowers has prompted increased integration, institutionalisation and the reconceptualisation of security, all encapsulated in the enlargement of NATO and the European Union. Freed from the constraint of the ba...

In this brief conclusion, we try to draw together the contributions of the chapters of the volume, reconstructing — from the diversity and multiplicity deliberately embraced by all the contributing authors — the theme of the ‘discursive construction of identity in European politics’.

The Baltic nations are hardly exceptional in national self-determination leading to the establishment of multi-ethnic polities rather than nation-states. Yet as the experiences of post-colonial states only too vividly show, where nationalists aspire to the idea of the model nation-state in which the dominant nation and national homeland are conside...

Socio-linguists and discourse analysts have long been aware of the fact that lan-guage does not simply describe a pre-existing reality but is rather the medium through which the social world is created and given meaning. While other branches of learning have been slow to take this on board, there is nevertheless a growing awareness of the importanc...