Staff Profiles

Research Interests and Practice

- masculinities

- ethnography

- pollution

- media

- sport and leisure

- creative and participatory research methods

Education

BA Sociology, Philosophy (1st class Honours) Griffith University, Australia.

PhD Gender and Cultural Studies, University of Sydney, Australia

Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education. Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

Biography

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. Continuing research interests include gender (particularly masculinities), lifestyle / action / extreme sports, leisure, mobile media, pollution, and blue spaces e.g. sea/ocean. I primarily employ ethnography to conduct research, and experiment with creative outputs and research methods e.g. ethnographic fiction, soundscapes, film, performance art. A recent film A Toxic Love Affair (2019) won best experimental film at the ReelHeART Film festival in Toronto, Canada.

Administratively, I m co-chair of the School of Arts and Cultures Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion group. I also co-ordinate the Media Culture heritage unit PARTNERS program, a supported entry into university programme. My administrative experience also includes extensive work for Postgraduate Research students.  

I have enjoyed collaborating with government departments, community organisations, elite sporting organisations, media outlets, and private industry. I am currently 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. A key goal of mine is to make research accessible to, with, and useful for the wider public through civic engagement. 

My research has been published in journals such as Leisure Sciences, Journal of Sport & Social Issues, Sport in Society, Social & Cultural Geography, Cultural Studies Review, and The International Journal of Communication. I am on the editorial teams for International Journal of Cultural Studies, Men and Feminism, and the Journal of Sport & Social Issues. 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. From 2008 to 2011 I was editor of Kurungabaa: A journal of literature, history and ideas from the sea and from 2010 to 2015 editor of Altitude: An e-journal of emerging humanities work.  I have written for newspapers, magazines, websites, as well as appeared in documentaries. 

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. I have also been a postdoctoral fellowship at the Journalism and Media Research Centre at the University of New South Wales, Australia. Clifton also worked as a market research strategy consultant in Shanghai, China. 

Selected recent talks/performances

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

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 and media

• Sport, particularly action / lifestyle / extreme sports

• Culture and pollution 

• Leisure

• Cultural studies

• Mobile media

Research Interests

- men and masculinities

- ethnography

- pollution

- mobile media

- sport and leisure

- action sport / extreme sport / lifestyle sport

- creative and participatory research methods

Recent Talks and Performances

AnthropOcean, Imaginaires, Oceaniques, Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme (2018)

ASA18 Sociality, matter, and the imagination, Association of Social Anthropologists, Oxford University (2018)

geNerosity Festival, Newcastle, UK (2018)

Rivers of Life, Being Human festival, The Sill, National Landscape Discovery Centre (2018)

Far From Heaven, Canada Shorts Film Festival (Official selection, honorary mention) (2018)

Leisure Studies Association annual conference, Bath University (2018)

International Communications Association conference, Prague (2018)

Sydney Ideas Festival, University of Sydney, Australia (2017)

Sustaining the Sea conference, University of Sydney, Australia (2017)

Leisure Studies Association annual conference, Leeds University, UK (2017)

Oceanic Places, Newcastle University, UK (2017)

New Approaches to Masculinities symposium, Newcastle University, UK (2017)

Research Projects

Shadow Places Network (a collaboration between Deakin University, Linkoping University, Macquarie University)

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.

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

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.  

• Evers C. Toxic Love: Men doing polluted leisure in blue spaces. Punctum Book, New York, 2019. In Preparation.
• Evers C. Polluted Leisure and Blue Spaces: More-than-human concerns in Fukushima. Journal of Sport and Social Issues 2019. Submitted.
• Evers C, Doering A. Lifestyle Sports in East Asia. Journal of Sport and Social Issues 2019. In Press.
• Doering A, Evers C. Maintaining masculinities in Japan’s transnational surfscapes. Journal of Sport and Social Issues 2019. In Press.
• Evers C. Polluted Leisure. Leisure Sciences 2019. In Press.
• Evers C, Davoll J. Polluted Leisure. Newcastle-Upon-Tyne: Newcastle Institute for Creative Arts Practice, 2019. Short film.
• Evers C. The gendered emotional labor of male professional 'freesurfers' digital media work. Sport in Society 2018, Epub ahead of print.
• Evers C, Davoll J. Far from Heaven: Live Performance. 2018. Paris: Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme.
• 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. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Newcastle Institute for Creative Arts Practice, 2018. Short Film.
• 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: Polluted Leisure in Blue Spaces (multimedia exhibition). 2018. Newcastle University: Ex Libris Gallery, 6.
• 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.
• 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).
• 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. Cultural studies: not drowning but waving?. Cultural Studies Review 2016, 2(2).
• 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. Masculinities and other interpretive frameworks: Audience, bodies and Mark Moss's The Media and Models of Masculinity. Masculinities: A Journal of Identity and Culture 2014, (1).
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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, 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.
• 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.
• Evers C. Notes For a Young Surfer. Melbourne Australia: Melbourne University Press, 2010.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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, 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.
• Evers C. Men who surf. Cultural Studies Review 2004, 10(1), 27-41.