Rate My Professor Brandon Sparks

Brandon Sparks is a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Psychology at the University of New Brunswick on the Saint John campus. He completed his PhD in Psychology at the University of Saskatchewan, following an MA in Applied Social Psychology from the same institution.

His research centers on topics including sexual offending, technology-facilitated sexual violence, image-based sexual abuse, involuntary celibacy (incels), intimate partner violence, and related areas of mental health and relationships. Key publications include “Involuntary celibacy: A review of incel ideology and experiences with dating, rejection, and associated mental health and emotional sequelae” (2022), “One is the loneliest number: Involuntary celibacy (incel), mental health, and loneliness” (2024), and “Image-based sexual abuse: Victim-perpetrator overlap and risk-related correlates of coerced sexting, non-consensual dissemination of intimate images, and cyberflashing” (2023). Sparks serves on the advisory board of the Centre for Policing and Criminal Justice Research at the University of New Brunswick Saint John and has contributed to studies on dating app experiences, rape myth acceptance, and attitudes toward sexual offenders.