Dr Clifton Evers

Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies

Email: clifton.evers@ncl.ac.uk
Address: Media, Culture, Heritage
Room 2.73
2nd floor Armstrong Building,
Newcastle University,
Newcastle upon Tyne,
Tyne and Wear, UK.
NE1 7RU

Background

Introduction

I joined the Media, Culture, Heritage unit at Newcastle University in September of 2015. My PhD was completed in Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney. I then went on to a postdoctoral fellowship at the Journalism and Media Research Centre at the University of New South Wales, Australia. For five years (2010-2015) 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 and being a research fellow of the Institute of Asia Pacific Studies.

My research interests include gender (particularly masculinity), leisure, mobile media, action / lifestyle sports, pollution, and the sea. I primarily employ ethnography to conduct research, and experiment with research outputs and methods e.g. ethnographic fiction, soundscapes, film.

My work has been published as publicly available government reports and as academic articles in international peer-reviewed journals.I have a strong interest in making research accessible and to have research be done with, communicated to, and made useful for the wider public through civic engagement.

I am a member of the The Shadow Places Network: a collaboration to re-imagine and co-produce connections for justice in an era of climate change

I am on the editorial boards for:

International Journal of Cultural Studies

Journal of Sport & Social Issues

Qualifications

BA (Hons) Griffith University, Australia.

PhD University of Sydney, Australia

Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education / Fellow of Higher Education Academy

Recent Talks

Sydney Ideas festival, University of Sydney, Australia (2017)
Sustaining the Sea conference, University of Sydney, Australia (2017)
Leisure Studies Association conference, Leeds University, UK (2017)
Oceanic Places, Newcastle University, UK (2017)
New Approaches to Masculinities symposium, newcastle University, UK (2017)

Teaching

Undergraduate Teaching

MCH1025 Researching Media, Communication & Culture I

MCH1026 Introduction to Social & Cultural Studies

MCH2075 Representations: Identity, Culture & Society

MCH3074 Themes and Issues in Media, Communication & Cultural Studies

COM3073 Research Dissertation

Postgraduate Research Supervision

I welcome postgraduate researchers who want to work in any of the areas relating to my research:

Gender, particularly masculinity
Sport and media
Sport, particularly action (lifestyle) sports
Culture and pollution
Leisure

Research

A current focus of my research is on media, men, place, sport (particularly lifestyle / action sport), ecology, and care. I have an intellectual and practical curiosity in the impacts of mobile media. I also research relationships between pollution, masculinities, and lifestyle sport. My work includes employing mobile media as a research method to conduct 'wet ethnography' e.g. in the sea. I have recently been looking at action sports and new media in East Asia, as well as the use of experimental media productions to explore 'polluted leisure' in the Anthropocene.

Recent Talks

Sydney Ideas Festival, University of Sydney, Australia (2017)
Sustaining the Sea conference, University of Sydney, Australia (2017)
Leisure Studies Association conference, Leeds University, UK (2017)
Oceanic Places, Newcastle University, UK (2017)
New Approaches to Masculinities symposium, newcastle University, UK (2017)

Research Projects

Newcastle Institute of the Creative Arts Grant, Polluted Leisure

Australian Research Council Linkage Grant. Social Cohesion through Football.

Australian Research Council Linkage Grant. Peer-Based Mentoring in Sport: Strategies for Best Practice.

Australian Research Council Linkage Grant. Safer Sex Beliefs and Practices in Multi-Partner Heterosexuals.

Consultancy with New South Wales State Government Health, Australia. Using New Media Cultures to Provide Sexual Health Information for Young Australians. V

Consultancy with National Rugby League and Australian Federal Government. Respectful Relationships. V

Consultancy with Australian Sports Commission. Towards a Level Playing Field: Research and Evaluation of the Portrayal of Female Athletes and Women in Sport by the Media.

Consultancy with New South Wales State Government Department. Strategies for Building and Sustaining Respect in New South Wales Public High Schools.

Consultancy with New South Wales State Government Institute of Sport, New South Wales Premiers Department for Women and University of Sydney Sport. Sportswomen: Get Out in Front.

Publications

Evers C. Polluted Leisure: Surfing the Anthropocene. Newcastle University: Newcastle University, 2018. In Preparation.
Doering A, Evers C, Weeks D. Constructing Japanese Surfscapes: Surfing, gender and place in globalised Japan. Journal of Sport and Social Issues 2018. In Preparation.
Evers C. The gendered emotional labor of male professional 'freesurfers' digital media work. Sport in Society 2018, Epub ahead of print.
Brown M, Evers C, Fleming D, Gilardi F, Reid J. Critical Transmedia Object-Making for Critical Learning: Art, Crafts and Embodied Techniques in the International Neoliberal University in China. International Journal of Transmedia LIteracy 2017. Submitted.
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, Seale K, ed. Informal Urban Street Markets: International Perspectives. London & New York: Routledge, 2015.
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. 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.
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, 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.
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.
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.
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. Notes For a Young Surfer. Melbourne Australia: Melbourne University Press, 2010. In Preparation.
Evers C. Intimacy, sport and young refugee men in Australia. Emotion, Space and Society 2010, 3(1), 56-61.
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. 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 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.
Evers C. The Cronulla race riot: safety maps on an Australian beach. South Atlantic Quarterly 2008, 107(2), 411-429.
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.
Zhang Y, Evers C. Media, culture, and young women's body image practices in Taizhou, China. Altitude: An e-journal of emerging humanities work 2014, 12.
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).
Fleming DH, Brown M, Gilardi F, Evers C. Transmedia Projects, Scholarly Habitus, and Critical Know-How in a British University in China. International Journal of Transmedia Literacy 2017. In Press.