Adam B. Evans

Adam B. Evans

Associate Professor


  1. Published

    Designing movement-based play with young people using powered wheelchairs

    Gerling, K. M., Hicks, K. C., Kalyn, M. R., Evans, Adam B. & Linehan, C., 2016, CHI '16: Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York, NY: Association for Computing Machinery, p. 4447-4458 12 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingArticle in proceedingsResearchpeer-review

  2. Creating wheelchair-controlled video games: Challenges and opportunities when involving young people with mobility impairments and game design experts

    Gerling, K. M., Linehan, C., Kirman, B., Kalyn, M. R., Evans, Adam B. & Hicks, K. C., 2016, In: International Journal of Human-Computer Studies. 94, p. 64-73 10 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  3. Published

    Designing for agency and compassion: Critical reflections on technology to support physical activity in late life: A 'Get a Move on' thinkpiece

    Gerling, K. M., Ray, M. & Evans, Adam B., 25 May 2017. 26 p.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaperResearchpeer-review

  4. Published

    Critical reflections on technology to support physical activity among older adults: An exploration of leading HCI venues

    Gerling, K. M., Ray, M., Vanden Abeele, V. & Evans, Adam B., 2020, In: ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing. 13, 1, 23 p., 1.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  5. Published

    Towards a qualitative understanding of exercise referral: Perceptions and opinions of Exercise Referral

    Henderson, H., Evans, Adam B., Allen-Collinson, J. & Siriwardena, N. A., May 2016.

    Research output: Contribution to conferenceConference abstract for conferenceResearchpeer-review

  6. Published

    The ‘wild and woolly’ world of exercise referral schemes: contested interpretations of an exercise as medicine programme

    Henderson, H., Evans, Adam B., Allen-Collinson, J. & Siriwardena, N. A., 2018, In: Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health. 10, 4, p. 505-523 19 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  7. Published

    Gendered bodies under scrutiny: women’s embodied experiences of aquatic physical activity in the United Kingdom.

    K. Williams, R., Allen-Collinson, J. & Evans, Adam B., Sep 2014.

    Research output: Contribution to conferenceConference abstract for conferenceResearchpeer-review

  8. Published

    Gendered bodies under scrutiny: women’s embodied experiences of aquatic physical activity in the United Kingdom.

    K. Williams, R., Allen-Collinson, J. & Evans, Adam B., May 2014.

    Research output: Contribution to conferenceConference abstract for conferenceResearchpeer-review

  9. Published

    ‘We may be falling apart but we still keep going’: Retired servicemen’s experiences of their ageing bodies

    K. Williams, R., Allen-Collinson, J., Evans, Adam B. & Briggs, J., 15 Mar 2018, In: Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health. 10, 2, p. 190-205 16 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  10. Published

    ‘Physical activity, aging and embodiment: Investigating contested memories of being a physically active older adult.’

    K. Williams, R., Allen-Collinson, J., Windle, K. & Evans, Adam B., 2016.

    Research output: Contribution to conferenceConference abstract for conferenceResearchpeer-review

  11. Published

    Swimming as self-care – A Foucauldian analysis of swimming for Danish Muslim women

    Lenneis, V., Evans, Adam B. & Agergaard, S., 2022, In: International Review for the Sociology of Sport. 57, 3, p. 401-420 20 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  12. Published

    Women-only swimming as a space of belonging

    Lenneis, V., Agergaard, S. & Evans, Adam B., 2022, In: Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health. 14, 1, p. 37-52 16 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  13. Published

    ‘Doing’ competitive swimming: Exploring the skilled practices of the competitive swimming lifeworld

    McNarry, G., Allen-Collinson, J. & Evans, Adam B., 2021, In: International Review for the Sociology of Sport. 56, 1, p. 3-19 17 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  14. Published

    Somewhere between a stopwatch and a recording device: Ethnographic reflections from the pool

    McNarry, G., Allen-Collinson, J. & Evans, Adam B., 2023, In: Journal of Contemporary Ethnography. 53, 1, p. 31-50

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  15. Published

    Walking the deck: Methodological considerations and preliminary findings from a sociological-phenomenological study of embodied, sensory experiences in performance swimming

    McNarry, G., Allen-Collinson, J. & Evans, Adam B., 2018, p. 75. 1 p.

    Research output: Contribution to conferenceConference abstract for conferenceResearchpeer-review

  16. Published

    "You always wanna be sore, because then you are seeing results": Exploring positive pain in competitive swimming"

    McNarry, G., Allen-Collinson, J. & Evans, Adam B., 2020, In: Sociology of Sport Journal. 37, 4, p. 301-309 9 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  17. Published

    Sensory sociological phenomenology, somatic learning and 'lived' temperature in competitive pool swimming

    McNarry, G., Allen-Collinson, J. & Evans, Adam B., 2021, In: Sociological Review. 69, 1, p. 206-222 17 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  18. Published

    ‘Ploughing on’: a sociological investigation of ‘endurance work’ in competitive swimming and distance-running

    McNarry, G., Allen-Collinson, J. & Evans, Adam B., 2021, In: Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health. 13, 4, p. 658-670 13 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  19. Published

    Reflexivity and bracketing in sociological phenomenological research: researching the competitive swimming lifeworld

    McNarry, G., Allen-Collinson, J. & Evans, Adam B., 1 Jan 2019, In: Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health. 11, 1, p. 138-151 14 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  20. Published

    Collaboration or contestation? A critical evaluation of current capacity building mechanisms in community-based obesity prevention programmes

    Middleton, G., Evans, Adam B., Henderson, H. & Windard, D., 2016, Capacity Building : Planning, Programs and Prospects. Brown, D. (ed.). New York: Nova Science Publishers, p. 21-32 12 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  21. ‘Ladies present!’: an auto/ethnographic study of women amateur golfers at an English provincial golf club

    Mitchell, S., Allen-Collinson, J. & Evans, Adam B., 2016, In: Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health. 8, 3, p. 273-286 14 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  22. Published

    “It made me feel young again”: Older adults’ perceptions of a physical activity intervention delivered at activity centres in Copenhagen.

    Nistrup, A., Pfister, G. U. & Evans, Adam B., May 2016.

    Research output: Contribution to conferenceConference abstract for conferenceResearchpeer-review

  23. Published

    Labour migration, national identity and basketball: the acculturation experiences of the Lithuanian Diaspora in the east of England

    Piggott, D. & Evans, Adam B., 2018.

    Research output: Contribution to conferenceConference abstract for conferenceResearchpeer-review

  24. Published

    Exploiting sport events: Towards a breaking point?

    Sterchele, D., Velija, P., Wheaton, B., Donnelly, P., Doidge, M., Evans, Adam B. & Roderick, M., 2022, Why Does Sociology Matter? : The Role of Sport Sociology in Interdisciplinary Research. European Association for the Sociology of Sport, p. 230-230 1 p. 288

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference abstract in proceedingsResearchpeer-review

  25. Published

    Workplace Active Certification: The creation of a certification process that values and rewards professional organisations implementing physical activity for their employees

    Vandaele, F., Evans, Adam B., De Dominicis, Stefano, Gross, M., Heuze, G. & De Clerck, I., 2023, In: European Journal of Public Health. 33, Suppl. 1, 1 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalConference abstract in journalResearchpeer-review

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