Staff Profile
Dr Clifton Evers
Senior Lecturer in Media & Cultural Studies
- Email: clifton.evers@ncl.ac.uk
- Address: Media, Culture, Heritage
Room 2.77
2nd floor Armstrong Building,
Newcastle University,
Newcastle upon Tyne,
Tyne and Wear, UK.
NE1 7RU
Research Interests and Practice
Men and masculinities, action/lifestyle sports and leisure, pollution and environment, blue spaces, just transitions, arts-based methods, ethnography
Education
BA Cultural Studies, Philosophy (1st class Honours) Griffith University, Australia.
PhD Gender and Cultural Studies, University of Sydney, Australia
Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education. Fellow of Advance HE
Biography
I joined the Media, Culture, Heritage unit at Newcastle University in 2015. My PhD was completed in Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney.
Administratively, I am the School of Arts and Cultures Postgraduate Research Director. I have previously been Director of the School of Arts and Cultures Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion committee. I coordinate the Media Culture Heritage unit PARTNERS program, a supported entry into university programme to widen participation.
I collaborate with government departments, community organisations, sporting organisations, media outlets, and private industry. I am currently a member of HEAL (health, environment, arts, and literature network) led by Oviedo University; Newcastle University Climate and Resilience NuCore network; the The Shadow Places Network (an international collaboration - artists, academics, activists - to re-imagine and co-produce connections for justice in an era of climate change); Surf & Nature Alliance (an international and intercultural non-profit organisation dedicated to the conservation of the marine environment, with a special interest in surf areas and surf culture, and the development of ocean science and literacy). A key goal of mine is to make research accessible to, with, and useful for the wider public through civic engagement.
I am on the editorial boards for the Journal for Sport & Social Issues, International Journal of Cultural Studies, and the Journal of Bodies, Sexualities, and Masculinities, Altitude: an e-journal for emerging humanities research
My research has been published in journals such as Environment and Planning E, Leisure Sciences, Journal of Sport & Social Issues, Sport in Society, Social & Cultural Geography, Cultural Studies Review, Leisure Studies, and The International Journal of Communication. My experience includes reviewing for such journals as Sport in Society, International Review for the Sociology of Sport, Gender Place and Culture, Men and Masculinities, Human Relations, History of Sport, Communication and Sport, and more. I was previously editor of Kurungabaa: A journal of literature, history and ideas from the sea and Altitude: An e-journal of emerging humanities work. I have written for newspapers, magazines, websites, as well as appeared in and made documentaries and curated exhibitions.
Previously, I was a lecturer in media and cultural studies at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China, which included the role of Deputy Director of the Institute for Creative and Digital Cultures. I was a postdoctoral fellow at the Journalism and Media Research Centre at the University of New South Wales, Australia.
Undergraduate Teaching
MCH1026 Introduction to Social & Cultural Studies
MCH2075 Representations: Identity, Culture & Society
MCH2067 Masculinities
MCH3074 Themes and Issues in Media, Communication & Cultural Studies
MCH3073 Research Dissertation
MCH2069 Research Methods
MCH3072 Research Dissertation
Postgraduate Taught
MCH8199 Research Dissertation
Postgraduate Research Supervision
I welcome postgraduate researchers who want to work in any of the areas relating to my research:
Gender, particularly men and masculinities
Sport, leisure, recreation (particularly action / lifestyle / extreme sports)
Culture and pollution
Cultural studies
Mobile media
Arts-based methods
Blue spaces
Current Research Projects
The First Fossil free Welfare State? Swedish Petro-Dreams, Resistances, and Coastal Transformations.
Age of Extinction: Anglophone narratives of personal and planetary degradation (2000-2020)
Polluted Leisure
Sustainable Skate
Northeast coastal community resilience: a just transition from industrial heritage to a low carbon future
Previous
Temperature life histories: Experiencing a changing climate through stories, poetry and data. Funded by the Brigstow Institute. Collaborators from University of Bristol, Newcastle University, Bristol Museums, and Windmill Hill City Farms
Shadow Places Network (a collaboration between Deakin University, Linkoping University, Macquarie University)
Social Cohesion through Football.
Peer-Based Mentoring in Sport: Strategies for Best Practice.
Safer Sex Beliefs and Practices in Multi-Partner Heterosexuals.
Using New Media Cultures to Provide Sexual Health Information for Young Australians.
Respectful Relationships in the National Rugby League.
Towards a Level Playing Field: Research and Evaluation of the Portrayal of Female Athletes and Women in Sport by the Media.
Strategies for Building and Sustaining Respect in New South Wales Public High Schools.
Sportswomen: Get Out in Front.
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Articles
- Bohman A, Evers C, Lövbrand E. More than one story: Remaking community and place in Sweden’s transition to a fossil free society. Local Environment – International Journal of Justice and Sustainability 2023. Submitted.
- O'Connor P, Evers C, Glenney B, Willing I. Skateboarding in the Anthropocene: Grey Spaces of Polluted leisure. Leisure Studies 2022, epub ahead of print.
- Evers C, Phoenix C. Relationships between recreation and pollution when striving for wellbeing in blue spaces. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 2022, 19(7), 4170.
- Potter E, Miller F, Lövbrand E, Houston D, McLean J, OGorman E, Evers C, Ziervogel G. A Manifesto for Shadow Places: re-imagining and co-producing connections for justice in an era of climate change. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space 2022, 5(1), 272-292.
- Albury K, McCosker A, Evers C. Men seeking women: Awkwardness, shame, and other affective encounters with dating apps. First Monday 2021, 26(4-5).
- Evers C. The gendered emotional labor of male professional 'freesurfers' digital media work. Sport in Society 2019, 22(10), 1691-1706.
- Evers C. Polluted Leisure and Blue Spaces: More-than-human concerns in Fukushima. Journal of Sport and Social Issues 2019, 45(2), 179-195.
- Evers CW. Polluted Leisure. Leisure Sciences 2019, 41(5), 423-440.
- Doering A, Evers C. Maintaining masculinities in Japan’s transnational surfscapes: Space, Place, and Gender. Journal of Sport and Social Issues 2019, 43(5), 386-406.
- Evers C, Doering A. Lifestyle Sports in East Asia. Journal of Sport and Social Issues 2019, 43(5), 343-352.
- Green K, Evers C. Intimacy on the Mats and in the Surf. Contexts 2019, 19(2), 10-15.
- Brown M, Evers C, Fleming D, Gilardi F, Reid J. Transmedial Projects, Scholarly Habitus, and Critical Know-How in a British University in China. International Journal of Transmedia Literacy 2018, 3(2017).
- Zhang Y, Evers C. Media, culture, and young women's body image practices in Taizhou, China : An exploratory study. Altitude: An e-journal of emerging humanities work 2014, 12.
- Evers C, Albury K, Byron P, Crawford K. Young People, Social Media, Social Network Sites and Sexual Health Communication in Australia: "This is Funny, You Should Watch It". International Journal of Communication 2013, 7, 263-280.
- Fleming D, Hernandez L, Tillotson J, Evers C, White A, Martin P, Mooney M, Willcock K. A Rubbish Idea: The Material Dump, or Casting Trash Talk into a new Light. Trash Culture Journal 2013, 1(1), 4-14.
- Nathan S, Kemp L, Bunde-Birouste A, MacKenzie J, Evers C, Shwe TA. “We wouldn’t of made friends if we didn’t come to Football United”: the impacts of a football program on young people’s peer, prosocial and cross-cultural relationships. BMC Public Health 2013, 13, 399.
- Byron P, Albury K, Evers C. ‘It would be weird to have that on Facebook’: young people’s use of social media and the risk of sharing sexual health information. Reproductive Health Matters 2013, 21(41), 35-44.
- Albury K, Carmody M, Evers C, Lumby C. Playing by the rules: researching, teaching and learning sexual ethics with young men in the Australian Rugby League. Sex Education 2011, 11(3), 339-351.
- Evers C, Lamasurier M. Get out in front: An evaluation of a media workshop for elite young sportswomen. Altitude: an e-journal of emerging humanities work 2011, 9.
- Nathan S, Bunde-Birouste A, Evers C, Kemp L, Mackenzie J, Henley R. Social cohesion through football: a quasi-experimental mixed methods design to evaluate a complex health promotion program. BMC Public Health 2010, 10, 587.
- Evers C, Gorman-Murray A, Potter E. Rural Cultural Studies: Research, practice, ethics. Altitude: an e-journal of emerging humanities work 2010, 16.
- Evers C. Intimacy, sport and young refugee men in Australia. Emotion, Space and Society 2010, 3(1), 56-61.
- Evers C. The point: surfing, geography and a sensual life of men and masculinity on the Gold Coast, Australia. Social & Cultural Geography 2009, 10(8), 893-908.
- Evers C. The Cronulla race riot: safety maps on an Australian beach. South Atlantic Quarterly 2008, 107(2), 411-429.
- Evers C. Rethinking gubbah localism. Kurungabaa: a journal of literature, history and ideas from the sea 2008, (1).
- Evers C. How to surf. Journal of Sport & Social Issues 2006, 30(3), 229-243.
- Evers C. Men who surf. Cultural Studies Review 2004, 10(1), 27-41.
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Authored Book
- Evers C. Notes For a Young Surfer. Melbourne Australia: Melbourne University Press, 2010.
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Book Chapters
- Evers C. Intoxicated: men, mental health, wellbeing, and pollution in blue spaces. In: Boyd CP, Bell SL, Boyle LE, Evans J ,Foley R, Högström, E, Paul A, ed. Routledge Handbook on Spaces of Mental Health and Wellbeing. London: Routledge, 2024. Submitted.
- Evers C. The gendered emotional labor of male professional ‘freesurfers’ digital media work. In: Guillaume Dumont; Holly Thorpe, ed. The Professionalization on Action Sports. London, UK: Routledge, 2023.
- Evers C. A polluted leisure pedagogy in a seascape wasteland. In: Mike Brown, ed. Blue Spaces: Experiencing the Sea in Outdoor Studies. London: Routledge, 2022. Submitted.
- Evers C. Wearable technology and visual analysis. In: Green, K; Lageson, S; Hartmann, D; Uggen, C, ed. Give Methods a Chance. WW Norton, 2018, pp.155-164.
- Evers C. Surfing and Contemporary China. In: Dexter Zavalza Hough-Snee and Alexander Sotelo Eastman, ed. The Critical Surf Studies Reader. Duke University Press, 2017.
- Evers C. Hegemonic Pan-Ethnic White Australian Masculinity: Feeling Masculine During Mediated-Assemblages. In: John Erni, ed. Visuality, Emotions and Minority Culture: Feeling Ethnic. Springer Verlag, 2017, pp.147-161.
- Evers C, Germon J. Gendered Bodies. In: Andrews,D; Silk,A; Thorpe,H, ed. Routledge Handbook of Physical Cultural Studies. Routledge, 2017.
- Evers C. Researching action sport with a GoPro™ camera: an embodied and emotional mobile video tale of the sea, masculinity, and men-who-Surf. In: Ian Wellard, ed. Researching Embodied Sport: Exploring Movement Cultures. London & New York: Routledge, 2016, pp.145-162.
- Evers C. Pengpu night market: informal urban street markets as more-than-human assemblages in Shanghai. In: Evers, C; Seale, K, ed. Informal Urban Street Markets: International Perspectives. London & New York: Routledge, 2015, pp.95-104.
- Seale K, Evers C. Informal Urban Street Markets: International Perspectives. In: Evers, C; Seale, K, ed. Informal Urban Street Markets: International Perspectives. London & New York: Routledge, 2015, pp.1-16.
- Evers C. Masculinity, sport and mobile phones: a case study of surfing. In: Goggin, G; Hjorth, L, ed. The Routledge Companion to Mobile Media. London & New York: Routledge, 2014, pp.375-384.
- Evers C, Goggin G. Mobiles, men and migration: mobile communication and everyday multiculturalism in Australia. In: Fortunati,L;Vincent,J;Pertierra,R, ed. Migration, Diaspora and Information Technology in Global Societies. London & New York: Routledge, 2012, pp.78-90.
- Evers C. 'The local boys': violence, care, masculinity and the riots. In: Noble,G, ed. Lines in the Sand: The Cronulla Riots and the Limits of Australian Multiculturalism. Sydney Australia: The Federation Press, 2009, pp.169-184.
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Digital or Visual Media
- Evers C, Davoll J. Listening to Hope. Headway Arts and the RePUBlic Gallery, Blyth: Shadow Places Network, 2021. Audio-Visual.
- Evers C. Infographic. Headway Arts and the RePUBlic Gallery, Blyth: Shadow Places Network, 2021.
- Evers CW, Davoll J. Pollution. Macquarie University, 2020.
- Evers C, Davoll J. Far From Heaven. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Newcastle Institute for Creative Arts Practice, 2018. Short film.
- Evers C, Davoll J. A Toxic Love Affair. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Newcastle Institute for Creative Arts Practice, 2018. Short Film.
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Edited Book
- Evers C, Seale K, ed. Informal Urban Street Markets: International Perspectives. London & New York: Routledge, 2015.
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Exhibitions
- Evers C. Energies: Blyth's industrial pasts and futures. 2021. Blyth, Northumberland: Headway Arts and RePUBlic Gallery, 11.
- Evers C, Davoll J. Making the Anthropocene: Future Fossils, Future Heritage. 2019. North Tyneside: Underpass Gallery, 4.
- Evers C, Davoll J. Coastal Contaminations. 2019. North Tyneside: Bridge Gallery, 6.
- Evers C, Davoll J. A Toxic Love Affair: Polluted Leisure in 'Blue Spaces' (multimedia exhibition) at AnthropOcean, Imaginaires, Oceaniques. 2018. Paris: Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, 13.
- Evers C, Davoll J. A Toxic Love Affair: Polluted Leisure in Blue Spaces (multimedia exhibition). 2018. Newcastle University: Ex Libris Gallery, 6.
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Performance
- Evers C, Davoll J. Far from Heaven: Live Performance. 2018. Paris: Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme.
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Reports
- Evers C, Albury K, Crawford K, Byron P. Using new media cultures to provide sexual health information for young people. Surry Hills, Sydney, Australia: HIV/STI Health Promotion Resource Project, New South Wales Government, 2012.
- Lumby C, Albury K, Evers C, Caple H. Toward a level playing field: Research and evaluation of the portrayal of female athletes and women in sport by the media. A report for the Australian Sports Commissions, Australian Federal Government, 2009.
- Germon J, evers C, Probyn E, O'Connor P, Moller M. Strategies for building and sustaining respect in New South Wales public high schools. A report prepared for the New South Wales State Government Department of Education and Training, 2009.
- Evers C, Lamasurier M. Sportswomen: Get out in front!. A report prepared for the New South Wales State Government Institute of Sport and the New South Wales Premiers Department for Women, 2006.
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Reviews
- Evers C. Cultural studies: not drowning but waving?. Cultural Studies Review 2016, 2(2).
- Evers C. Media, Masculinities and Other Interpretive Frameworks: Reflecting on Audience, Representation, Bodies and Mark Moss’ The Media and Models of Masculinity. Masculinities: A Journal of Culture and Society 2014, (1).