University of Essex

Department of Sociology

University of Essex

Research Staff

Dr Adrian Evans

Staff position	Senior Research Officer
E-mail	abevans (non Essex users should add @essex.ac.uk)
Telephone	2665 (non Essex users should add 01206-87 to the beginning of this number)
Room	5A.340
Current research	Adrian is currently working as a Senior Research Officer for the ESRC Sustainable Practices Research Group. He is working with Mark Harvey on the consumption and provision of bottled water in four European countries, Delhi and Mexico City. Adrian has previously worked on the EU-funded Welfare Quality project investigating the consumption and retail of animal welfare-friendly foods across Europe and he is the book review editor for the International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food. He has a particular interest in theories of practice and in developing novel methodologies to explore embodied practices within divergent research settings – ranging from archival research to exploring the practical ethics-aesthetics of contemporary food consumption. His research interests also include science and technology studies, historical geography and material-culture studies.
Publications	Articles Evans A and Miele M (forthcoming) Between food and flesh: how animals are made to matter (and not matter) within food consumption practices (accepted for publication in Environment and Planning D) Miele M, Veissier I, Evans A and R. Botreau (2011) Establishing a dialogue between science and society about animal welfare. Animal Welfare 20 (1), 103-117 Miele M and Evans A (2010) When foods become animals, ruminations on ethics and responsibility in care-full spaces of consumption. Ethics, Place and Environment 13 (2), 171-190 Evans A (2008) Enlivening the archive: glimpsing embodied consumption practices in probate inventories of household possessions. Historical Geography 36, 40-72. Griffin C and Evans A (2008) On historical geographies of embodied practice and performance, Historical Geography 36, 5-16 Griffin C and Evans A (2007) Historical Geographies of embodied practice, Past Place 15 (2), 3-7 Book Chapters Higgin M, Evans A and Miele M (Forthcoming) A good kill: socio-technical organisations of farm animal slaughter in Charles N and Carter R (Eds) ‘Human and Other Animals: Critical Perspectives’ Palgrave: London Miele M and Evans A (2006) ‘Negotiating signs of pleasure and pain: towards a democratic-deliberative model of animal welfare monitoring’ in Kaiser, M and Lien, M (Eds) (2006) Ethics and the politics of food, p190-197. Wageningen Academic Publishers: Wageningen Reports Miele M, Evans A and Higgin M (2010) Comparative citizen jury report: The results of a dialogue between citizens and experts regarding farm animal welfare in the UK, Norway and Italy Deliverable: D4.17 Sub task: 4.4.1.1 EU Food-CT-2004-506508 Evans A, Higgin M, Miele M, Morgan S, Ara A, Pinducciu D and Kulo M (2010) A comparative report on the provision of educational materials about farmed animal welfare in Italy, Norway and the United Kingdom. Deliverable report D5.9 for Welfare Quality® EU Food-CT-2004-506508 Evans A and Miele M (2010) Comparative literature review regarding citizens’ views about religious slaughter. Deliverable report D4.1 for DIALREL EU SSA-43075 Blackler F, Evans A and Zivotofski A (2010) Final report consumer and consumption issues: halal and kosher focus group results. Deliverable D3.1 for DIALREL EU SSA-43075 Evans A (2009) Religious slaughter and the consumption of kosher and halal foods in the UK: the media debate. Sub-deliverable report for use in D4.2 for DIALREL EU SSA-43075 Evans A and Miele M (2008) Consumers’ views about farm animal welfare. Part II: European compative report based on focus group research Welfare Quality Report No.5 ISBN 1-902647-83-1
Conferences/presentations	The public understanding of farm animal welfare in Europe (The Veterinary Public Health Association, November 2010, Harrogate) Results from the Dialrel project (The World Halal Forum Europe, November 2010, Earls Court Conference Centre, London) Welfare multiple: The use of citizen juries to explore interactions between expert and lay understandings of farm animal welfare (The Association of American Geographers, Annual Meeting, Animal Geography Session, April 2010, Washington – with Miele M) Exploring societal views about animal welfare science (The British Sociological Association, Science and Society Session April 2009, Cardiff - with Higgin M and Miele M) Consuming rural myths: exploring consumer knowledges about food, farming and animal welfare (The Royal Geographical Society, August 2008, London - with Miele M.) Drinking smoke and eating tea: Towards a performative understanding of the consumption of foreign commodities in eighteenth-century England. (The Association of American Geographers, Annual Meeting, 2007, San Francisco, California) The embodied (ethical) practices of consuming animal welfare-friendly foods (The British Sociological Association, 2007, London - with Mara Miele) Negotiating signs of pleasure and pain: towards a democratic-deliberative model of animal welfare monitoring (Ethics and the Politics of Food 6th Congress of the European Society for Agricultural and Food Ethics Oslo, Norway, June 22-24, 2006 - with Mara Miele) Conference sessions Working Group on ‘Conceptualising animal welfare: towards an understanding of how we enact, govern and represent our multiple relationships with non-human animals’ (XXI Congress of the European Society for Rural Sociology, Keszthely, Hungary, 2005 - with Miele M) 3 paper sessions on ‘Historical Geographies of embodied practice’ (The American Association of Geographers, San Francisco, 2007 - with Carl Griffin)

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