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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
Background

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. 



Teaching

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

Research

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.  


Publications