Dr Clifton Evers
Senior Lecturer in Media and 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
- 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), leisure, 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 am co-chair of the School of Arts and Cultures Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion group and am part of the School Executive Board. 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, as well as for Widening Participation.
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. I am also a team member of the 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
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, 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 and made 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.
Recent selected recent talks/performances
Living in the End Times: Utopian and Dystopian Representations of Pandemics, Cappadocia University, Turkey. 2021.
Communicate, Bristol Natural History Consortium (2020)
Experience as Placed, Durham University, Medical Humanities Institute (2019)
Creative Research in Blue Spaces, Oviedo University (2019)
Leisure Studies Association conference, Dundee. Scotland (2019)
The First Fossil free Welfare State? Swedish Petro-Dreams, Resistances, and Coastal Transformations. Fiskebackskil and Lysekil, Sweden (2019)
AnthropOcean, Imaginaires, Oceaniques, Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme (2018)
ASA18 Sociality, matter, and the imagination, Association of Social Anthropologists, Oxford University (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)
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, blue spaces, pollution, sport and leisure, media, creative and participatory research methods
primarily employ ethnography to conduct research, and experiment with creative outputs and research methods e.g. ethnographic fiction, soundscapes, film, performance art.
I am part of a research team on the grant The First Fossil free Welfare State? Swedish Petro-Dreams, Resistances, and Coastal Transformations. The project asks:
I am also on the team for the project Illness in the Age of Extinction: Anglophone narratives of personal and planetary degradation (2000-2020) funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities. This research project analyses the experience of being ill in the first two decades of the 21st century, specifically focusing on the relationship between human and environmental diseases. We focus on anglophone narratives published in the UK, Ireland, and the USA between 2000 and 2020, a period usually referred to as "the age of extinction", as the basis for future research projects on wider geographical, linguistic, and cultural areas. Ours is a collaborative project of an interdisciplinary research team (with specialists in the areas of Literature, History, Fine Arts, Translation and Interpretation Studies, Medicine, and Medical and Environmental Humanities). The project involves scholars from Oviedo University (ESP), Newcastle University (UK), and Harvard University (USA).
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. I am also a team member of the 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 co-investigator on the project: Northeast coastal community resilience: a just transition from industrial heritage to a low carbon future. Funded by OnePlanet. The context is how coastal communities with an industrial heritage experience resilience and transformation as they face ongoing climate crisis challenges. These challenges include their future socio-economic well-being and evolving identity given the arrival of new low carbon technologies .
I am also on the team for a project entitled Improve Your Play (IYP) project aims to reduce technology-facilitated harm of a sexualized nature experienced by young women. To achieve this, the will conduct research, consult with young people, and ultimately develop resources and a social media campaign designed to encourage and empower young men (15-17 years) to make ethical decisions when engaging in online conversations of a sexual nature with young women. The project is funded by The Alannah & Madeline Foundation, Australia.
Research Projects
Improve Your Play (IYP). The project aims to reduce technology-facilitated harm of a sexualized nature experienced by young women. To achieve this we are focused on improving the mindset and behaviour of young men. Funded by the Alannah & Madeline Foundation.
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
Age of Extinction: Anglophone narratives of personal and planetary degradation. Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities. Oviedo University (ESP), Newcastle University (UK), and Harvard University (USA).
The First Fossil free Welfare State? Swedish Petro-Dreams, Resistances, and Coastal Transformations. FORMAS.
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, 2022. In Preparation.
- 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 CW, Davoll J. Pollution. Macquarie University, 2020.
- 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 2020, ePub ahead of print.
- Evers C. Polluted Leisure and Blue Spaces: More-than-human concerns in Fukushima. Journal of Sport and Social Issues 2019, n/a, n/a.
- Green K, Evers C. Finding Intimacy and Fragility on the Mats and in the Surf. Contexts 2019. In Press.
- 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, Doering A. Lifestyle Sports in East Asia. Journal of Sport and Social Issues 2019, 43(5), 343-352.
- 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 CW. Polluted Leisure. Leisure Sciences 2019, 41(5), 423-440.
- 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 2019, 22(10), 1691-1706.
- 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.