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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 expertise:

Men and masculinities; sports & leisure; blue cultural tourism; environment and sustainability; blue spaces, health and wellbeing; coastal communities; post-industrial landscapes/seascapes; creative research methods, emotion/affect; mobile media; 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

In 2015, I joined Newcastle University's Media, Culture, and Heritage unit. I am the Postgraduate Research Director in the School of Arts and Cultures and have previously been the Director of the Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion committee. I am involved in the Humanities and Social Sciences Faculty and School of Arts and Cultures EDI initiatives, including the Faculty Athena Swan silver accreditation (successful). Additionally, I lead the Media Culture Heritage unit PARTNERS program, which is an assisted entry program aimed at increasing the participation of under-served young people in higher education. I am co-founder of the experimental multi- and inter-disciplinary Bloom: More-than-Human Policy Lab and the Museum of Polluted Leisure. I am a former Deputy Director of the Institute for Creative and Digital Cultures at University of Nottingham Ningbo China, and I have experience in Transnational Education.


External professional Affiliations, Roles, and Memberships:

Professional Memberships:


- Royal Geographical Society (2019–present)

- Leisure Studies Association (2015–present)

- Cultural Studies Association (2006–present)

- Cultural Studies Association of Australasia (2004–present)


Editorial Roles:


Editorial Board, Leisure Studies (2025-present)

Editorial Board, International Journal for Sociology of Leisure_ (2023–present)

Editorial Board, International Journal of Cultural Studies_ (2019–present)

Editorial Board, Journal of Sport and Social Issues_ (2018–present)

Editor-in-Chief, Kurungabaa: A journal of literature, history and ideas from the sea_ (2008–2013)


Research Networks:

  • The Museum of Polluted Leisure
  • Bloom: more-than-human policy lab
  • Coalescing Crises: A Syndemic Approach to Illness from the Medical and Environmental Humanities
  • UK Coastal Culture Network
  • SHRED network (Skating | Sustainability | Health Research | Environmental Design) (2023–present)

UK, Germany, Netherlands, Australia, USA

  • SolasArts - an Arts Education Platform (2022-present)
  • Newcastle University Climate and Resilience NuCore network (2022-present)
  • HEAL network (Health, Environment, Arts and Literature) (2021–present). Spain, UK, USA
  • Newcastle University Environmental Humanities Initiative (2022-present)
  • Shadow Places Network (2018–present). Comprising artists, scholars, and activists dedicated to fostering connections for justice amidst climate change Australia, Sweden, UK, Japan, South Africa
  • Surf & Nature Alliance
  • UK Performance Research Network


My research has been widely published in world-leading peer-reviewed journals including Leisure Sciences, Global Social Challenges, Cultural Studies Review, Environment and Planning E, Social & Cultural Geography, Journal of Sport & Social Issues, and Leisure Studies, among others. My expertise has been sought out by many prestigious publications for peer review, for example: Men and Masculinities, Gender Place and Culture, Communication and Sport, Human Relations, International Review for the Sociology of Sport, and History of Sport, Qualitative Research in Sport Exercise and Health.


I curate research exhibitions and create award-winning arts-based research method outputs (e.g., textile, film, sound, performance art).


I was part of the international advisory committee of the project 'Crushed But Okay', which concluded in 2022 and was funded by the Alannah & Madeline Foundation's eSafety Online Safety Grants Program and supported by the Australian Government's 'Improve Your Play' initiative. The resource was released in April 2022 on Instagram's IGTV and won the Swinburne University Vice Chancellor impact award.


My media experience includes contributions to news outlets like Le Monde, Arte, BBC, Sydney Morning Herald, and The Conversation.


I was a postdoctoral fellow at the prestigious Journalism and Media Research Centre at the University of New South Wales and Research Fellow at University of Sydney in Australia.



Teaching

Undergraduate Teaching

MCH1023 Media Studies

MCH1026 Social & Cultural Studies

MCH**** Physical Cultural Studies

MCH2005 Intersectional Approaches to Media & Cultural Studies

MCH2069 Research Design & Practice

MCH3074 Critical Approaches to Media, Communication and Culture

MCH3073 Research Dissertation

MCH3072 Research Dissertation


Postgraduate Taught

MCH8199 Research Dissertation



Research

Research Interests and Practice

Men and masculinities; sports & leisure; polluted leisure; sport ecology; blue cultural tourism; environment and sustainability; blue spaces, health and wellbeing; coastal communities; post-industrial landscapes/seascapes; creative research methods, emotion/affect; mobile media; ethnography.


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
  • Cultural tourism
  • Environment and sustainability
  • Cultural studies (especially physical cultural studies)
  • Mobile media
  • Arts-based methods / ethnography
  • Blue spaces and blue health and wellbeing
  • Coastal communities
  • Emotion and affect
  • Widening participation


Funded Research Projects


  • Coalescing Crises: A Syndemic Approach to Illness from the Medical and Environmental Humanities (2025-ongoing)
  • Understanding place-based repair in climate-affected communities (2025-ongoing)
  • "A Resilient, Just Transformation for Post-Industrial Coastal Communities" (2024-ongoing)
  • "Piloting local repair communities to enhance men’s mental health and reduce e-waste" (2024-ongoing)
  • "The First Fossil Free Welfare State? Swedish Petro-Dreams, Resistances, and Coastal Transformations" (2019-2024)
  • "Age of Extinction: Anglophone Narratives of Personal and Planetary Degradation" (2019-2023)
  • "Northeast Coastal Community Resilience: A Just Transition from Industrial Heritage to a Low Carbon Future" (2022)
  • "Temperature Life Histories: Experiencing a Changing Climate through Stories, Poetry and Data" (2021)
  • "The Shadow Places Network" (2019)
  • "Using New Media Cultures to Provide Sexual Health Information for Young Australians" (2010)
  • "Social Cohesion through Sport" (2010)
  • "Respectful Relationships"
  • "Towards a Level Playing Field: Research and Evaluation of the Portrayal of Female Athletes and Women in Sport by the Media" (2010)
  • "Strategies for Building and Sustaining Respect in New South Wales Public High Schools" (2008)
  • "Peer-Based Mentoring in Sport: Strategies for Best Practice" (2007)
  • "Safer Sex Beliefs and Practices in Multi-Partner Heterosexuals" (2006)



Publications