Nick Evans
Biographic Data
| ID | 3720501 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nick Evans |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nick |
| FAMILY NAME | Evans |
| SIGNATURE | EVANS N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Worcester |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8725-0042 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 387 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Using the Candidacy Model to Understand Service Users’ Experiences of Access to Social Prescribing
Social prescribing is an increasingly well‐known international model of healthcare, yet there is little agreement about its role and efficacy. This paper comprises a secondary analysis of findings from service users in a small‐scale (n.8) qualitative study in the English Midlands using the approach of candidacy, a comprehensive framework with the potential for achieving a deeper understanding of social prescribing. Participants were accessed thro…
The sound of one quotation mark: Quoted speech in Indigenous Australian narrative
Winging It”: An Exploration of the Self-Perceived Professional Identity of Social Prescribing Link Workers
The practice of social prescribing (SP) has been rapidly expanding throughout the UK in recent years. The role of SP link workers (SPLWs) currently has no nationally prescribed requirements in terms of qualifications, background, or experience. This qualitative study of 13 SPLWs using semi-structured interviews is believed to be the first exploration of perceptions of their professional identity and the agency and structure within their roles. SP…
The Uses of Rupture in Medieval Northern Eurasian History
Will Russia’s invasion of Ukraine change bring about a rupture in how we write about and teach the history of medieval Northern Eurasia? Dominant accounts of the region’s medieval history invoke ruptures, such as the Mongol invasion, in the service of state‐centred narratives. Such narratives obscure the diversity of the region’s past and its present. This essay explores the uses of rupture in the historiography of medieval Northern Eurasia. It s…
Grambank reveals the importance of genealogical constraints on linguistic diversity and highlights the impact of language loss
While global patterns of human genetic diversity are increasingly well characterized, the diversity of human languages remains less systematically described. Here we outline the Grambank database. With over 400,000 data points and 2,400 languages, Grambank is the largest comparative grammatical database available. The comprehensiveness of Grambank allows us to quantify the relative effects of genealogical inheritance and geographic proximity on t…
Social prescribing: Exploring general practitioners' and healthcare professionals' perceptions of, and engagement with, the NHS model
Social prescribing (SP) has rapidly expanded over recent years. Previously a bottom-up, community-led phenomenon, SP is now a formal part of structured NHS policy and practice. This study was designed to ascertain how general practitioners and other primary healthcare professionals (HCPs) within one clinical commissioning group (CCG) perceive and engage with this new NHS model. The research comprised an online survey distributed to HCPs within a …
Burning Matters: The Rise and Fall of an Early-Medieval Fortified Centre. A New Chronology for Clatchard Craig
ONE OF THE MOST SIGNIFICANT DEVELOPMENTS in early-medieval northern Britain was the re-emergence of fortified enclosures and settlements. As in western England and Wales, the fort rather than the hall formed the most prominent material manifestation of power of an elite and their client group. While fortified sites dominate our knowledge of the form that central places of power and governance took in the early-medieval period in northern Britain,…
Where there's (farm) muck, there's brass
Settlement, landscape and land-use change at a Pictish Elite Centre: Assessing the palaeoecological record for economic continuity and social change at Rhynie in NE Scotland
The first millennium AD was a transformative period when many of the medieval kingdoms of Europe began to take shape, but despite recent advances in palaeoecological and archaeological research there remains a shortage of interdisciplinary collaborative research targeting this period. For some regions we know relatively little about the societies who lived during this formative period. This current investigation focusses on an early medieval elit…
Identifying Social Transformations and Crisis during the Pre-Monastic to Post-Viking era on Iona: New Insights from a Palynological and Palaeoentomological Perspective
Iona is renowned for its early monastery, founded following the arrival of Columba in AD 563. This paper uses palaeoecological data to provide insight into the social and environmental transformations that influenced the landscape of Iona during the later prehistoric and historic periods. The identification of cereal pollen suggests that arable farming occurred during the Bronze Age and possibly continued through the Iron Age. Pastoral farming wa…
Friend or foe? UK farmers' relationships with the weather
Babylon to brexit: Gareth Dale's Polanyi
Th is text looks at the early Communist intellectual movement in Slovakia (in an area that, for part of the time under discussion, was affi liated with the the Hungarian Soviet Republic) organized around the journal Kassai Munkás (Th e Košice Worker).By placing this movement in the context of the development of Western Marxism and the incipient Marxist aesthetics of György Lukács, who was among those who published in the journal, the paper charac…
Social Return on Investment: Valuing health outcomes or promoting economic values
Interventions and activities that influence health are often concerned with intangible outcomes that are difficult to value despite their potential significance. Social Return on Investment is an evaluation framework that explores all aspects of change and expresses these in comparable terms. It combines qualitative narratives and quantitative measurements with a financial approach to enable outcomes that can otherwise be overlooked or undervalue…
Agriculture – Who cares? An investigation of ‘care farming’ in the UK
Rural Wales in the Twenty-First Century: Society, Economy and Environment
The enigma of Pama-Nyungan expansion in Australia
Using language to date the origin and spread of food production, Archaeology and Language II represents groundbreaking work in synthesizing two disciplines that are now seen as interlinked: linguistics and archaeology. This volume is the second part of a three-part survey of innovative results emerging from their combination. Archaeology and historical linguistics have largely pursued separate tracks until recently, although their goals can be ve…
Multifunctional Agriculture: A Transition Theory Perspective
From stress to distress: Conceptualizing the British family farming patriarchal way of life
Adjustment strategies revisited: Agricultural change in the Welsh Marches
From 'As Good as Gold' to 'Gold Diggers: Farming Women and the Survival of British Family Farming
The survival of family farming in British agriculture has long been a topic of interest for rural researchers and is undergoing something of a current renewal of interest. However, insights from feminist approaches remain underutilised despite the crucial role farming women continue to play in family farming. This article addresses the unity of farm, family and business by interpreting it as a patriarchal way of life. An ethnographically informed…
A Lleyn Sweep for Local Sheep? Breed Societies and the Geographies of Welsh Livestock
In this paper we use Bourdieu's concept of habitus to examine human-animal relationships within capitalist agricultural systems. In the first part of the paper we examine how Bourdieu's ideas have been used by academics to provide insights into the ways that livestock affect and are affected by farming practice. In the second part we build on these conceptual, empirical, and policy insights by examining some of the national and international soci…
View with a view: Towards a typology of multiple perspective constructions
Agricultural turns, geographical turns: Retrospect and prospect
Re-assessing agrarian policy and practice in local environmental management: The case of beef cattle
Conceptualizing agriculture: A critique of post-productivism as the new orthodoxy
It has become fashionable to conceptualize recent shifts in agrarian priorities as a ‘postproductivist’ transition from a previously ‘productivist’ agriculture. This notion became more popular throughout the 1990s as a way to capture in one convenient package the complex changes experienced by both the agricultural sector specifically and within rural areas more generally. However, the widespread and uncritical use of such an all-encompassing ter…
Conceptualizing agriculture: A critique of post-productivism as the new orthodoxy
It has become fashionable to conceptualize recent shifts in agrarian priorities as a ‘postproductivist’ transition from a previously ‘productivist’ agriculture. This notion became more popular throughout the 1990s as a way to capture in one convenient package the complex changes experienced by both the agricultural sector specifically and within rural areas more generally. However, the widespread and uncritical use of such an all-encompassing ter…
Agricultural turns, geographical turns: Retrospect and prospect
From stress to distress: Conceptualizing the British family farming patriarchal way of life
"New Places for "Old Spots: The Changing Geographies of Domestic Livestock Animals
This paper considers the real and imagined geographies of livestock animals. In doing so, it reconsiders the spatial relationship between people and domesticated farm animals. Some consideration is given to the origins of domestication and comparisons are drawn between the natural and domesticated geographies of animals. The paper mainly focuses on the contemporary geographies of livestock animals and, in particular, "rare breeds" of British live…
Adjustment strategies revisited: Agricultural change in the Welsh Marches
Towards a geography of agri-environmental policies in England and Wales
Cheese Makers Are Always Women: Gendered representations of farm life in the agricultural press
Drawing upon the "Farmlife" pages of Farmers" Weekly, the most significant farming publication in the UK, this paper assesses the ways in which gender identities in farming are represented by its text and images. Lead articles from 1976 and 1996 issues of Farmlife are taken as the research focus to determine how representations have altered in line with restructuring of the agricultural industry. Reference is made to Connell"s (1987) notions of h…
A Lleyn Sweep for Local Sheep? Breed Societies and the Geographies of Welsh Livestock
In this paper we use Bourdieu's concept of habitus to examine human-animal relationships within capitalist agricultural systems. In the first part of the paper we examine how Bourdieu's ideas have been used by academics to provide insights into the ways that livestock affect and are affected by farming practice. In the second part we build on these conceptual, empirical, and policy insights by examining some of the national and international soci…
The Pluriactivity, Part-Time Farming, and Farm Diversification Debate
The current restructuring of agriculture has resulted in many farm families adjusting their business activities as part of a survival or accumulation strategy. Considerable attention has been paid to the nonconventional methods farm businesses employ to raise income, being conceptualised variously as 'farm diversification', 'part-time farming' and 'pluriactivity' . These terms incorporate a complex multitude of possible options, the nature of whi…
Research on the geography of agricultural change: Redundant or revitalized
Future research directions for agricultural geography were the subject of debate in Area in the late 1980s, and the subsequent application of political economy ideas undoubtedly revived interest in agricultural research. This paper argues that agricultural geography contains greater diversity than the dominant political economy discourse would suggest. It reviews ‘other’ areas of agricultural research such as policy, post‐ productivism, people, c…
From 'As Good as Gold' to 'Gold Diggers: Farming Women and the Survival of British Family Farming
The survival of family farming in British agriculture has long been a topic of interest for rural researchers and is undergoing something of a current renewal of interest. However, insights from feminist approaches remain underutilised despite the crucial role farming women continue to play in family farming. This article addresses the unity of farm, family and business by interpreting it as a patriarchal way of life. An ethnographically informed…
Agriculture – Who cares? An investigation of ‘care farming’ in the UK
Livestock and landscape
This short discussion considers the role that livestock play in the creation and dilution of landscape coherences. Using the example of the cattle breeds found in the British Isles, it argues that variations in breed types are an important but neglected part of the landscape. Selected examples are discussed and it is contended that cattle represent significant cultural aspects of the landscape. It is also acknowledged that variations in regional …
Social Return on Investment: Valuing health outcomes or promoting economic values
Interventions and activities that influence health are often concerned with intangible outcomes that are difficult to value despite their potential significance. Social Return on Investment is an evaluation framework that explores all aspects of change and expresses these in comparable terms. It combines qualitative narratives and quantitative measurements with a financial approach to enable outcomes that can otherwise be overlooked or undervalue…
Re-assessing agrarian policy and practice in local environmental management: The case of beef cattle
Settlement, landscape and land-use change at a Pictish Elite Centre: Assessing the palaeoecological record for economic continuity and social change at Rhynie in NE Scotland
The first millennium AD was a transformative period when many of the medieval kingdoms of Europe began to take shape, but despite recent advances in palaeoecological and archaeological research there remains a shortage of interdisciplinary collaborative research targeting this period. For some regions we know relatively little about the societies who lived during this formative period. This current investigation focusses on an early medieval elit…
Identifying Social Transformations and Crisis during the Pre-Monastic to Post-Viking era on Iona: New Insights from a Palynological and Palaeoentomological Perspective
Iona is renowned for its early monastery, founded following the arrival of Columba in AD 563. This paper uses palaeoecological data to provide insight into the social and environmental transformations that influenced the landscape of Iona during the later prehistoric and historic periods. The identification of cereal pollen suggests that arable farming occurred during the Bronze Age and possibly continued through the Iron Age. Pastoral farming wa…
Social prescribing: Exploring general practitioners' and healthcare professionals' perceptions of, and engagement with, the NHS model
Social prescribing (SP) has rapidly expanded over recent years. Previously a bottom-up, community-led phenomenon, SP is now a formal part of structured NHS policy and practice. This study was designed to ascertain how general practitioners and other primary healthcare professionals (HCPs) within one clinical commissioning group (CCG) perceive and engage with this new NHS model. The research comprised an online survey distributed to HCPs within a …
Friend or foe? UK farmers' relationships with the weather
Rural Wales in the Twenty-First Century: Society, Economy and Environment
Multifunctional Agriculture: A Transition Theory Perspective
Burning Matters: The Rise and Fall of an Early-Medieval Fortified Centre. A New Chronology for Clatchard Craig
ONE OF THE MOST SIGNIFICANT DEVELOPMENTS in early-medieval northern Britain was the re-emergence of fortified enclosures and settlements. As in western England and Wales, the fort rather than the hall formed the most prominent material manifestation of power of an elite and their client group. While fortified sites dominate our knowledge of the form that central places of power and governance took in the early-medieval period in northern Britain,…
Shorter notices
Burger, Henry G. The Wordtree: a transitive cladistic for solving physical & social problems. Overland Park, Kansas: The Wordtree. 1986. Pp. 382. Aarts, J. & Meijs, W. (eds) Theory and Practice in Corpus Linguistics. Amsterdam: Rodopi. 1990. Pp. iii + 254
Farming and the countryside: An economic analysis of external costs and benefits
Obituary: Steve Johnson
The Pluriactivity, Part-Time Farming, and Farm Diversification Debate
The current restructuring of agriculture has resulted in many farm families adjusting their business activities as part of a survival or accumulation strategy. Considerable attention has been paid to the nonconventional methods farm businesses employ to raise income, being conceptualised variously as 'farm diversification', 'part-time farming' and 'pluriactivity' . These terms incorporate a complex multitude of possible options, the nature of whi…
Multiple Case in Kayardild: Anti-iconic Suffix Ordering and the Diachronic Filter
Kayardild is an Australian language belonging to the Tangkic group of non Pama-Nyungan languages, spoken on Bentinck Island in the southern Gulf of Carpentaria; only about twenty speakers remain. Other members of the group are Lardil, Yukulta, and Yangkaal, the latter two now extinct and the former with just a few very old speakers. As Figure 15.1 shows, the typological division into ergative and non-ergative languages cross-cuts the genetic clas…
Livestock and landscape
This short discussion considers the role that livestock play in the creation and dilution of landscape coherences. Using the example of the cattle breeds found in the British Isles, it argues that variations in breed types are an important but neglected part of the landscape. Selected examples are discussed and it is contended that cattle represent significant cultural aspects of the landscape. It is also acknowledged that variations in regional …
Towards a geography of agri-environmental policies in England and Wales
"New Places for "Old Spots: The Changing Geographies of Domestic Livestock Animals
This paper considers the real and imagined geographies of livestock animals. In doing so, it reconsiders the spatial relationship between people and domesticated farm animals. Some consideration is given to the origins of domestication and comparisons are drawn between the natural and domesticated geographies of animals. The paper mainly focuses on the contemporary geographies of livestock animals and, in particular, "rare breeds" of British live…
Research on the geography of agricultural change: Redundant or revitalized
Future research directions for agricultural geography were the subject of debate in Area in the late 1980s, and the subsequent application of political economy ideas undoubtedly revived interest in agricultural research. This paper argues that agricultural geography contains greater diversity than the dominant political economy discourse would suggest. It reviews ‘other’ areas of agricultural research such as policy, post‐ productivism, people, c…
Cheese Makers Are Always Women: Gendered representations of farm life in the agricultural press
Drawing upon the "Farmlife" pages of Farmers" Weekly, the most significant farming publication in the UK, this paper assesses the ways in which gender identities in farming are represented by its text and images. Lead articles from 1976 and 1996 issues of Farmlife are taken as the research focus to determine how representations have altered in line with restructuring of the agricultural industry. Reference is made to Connell"s (1987) notions of h…
Conceptualizing agriculture: A critique of post-productivism as the new orthodoxy
It has become fashionable to conceptualize recent shifts in agrarian priorities as a ‘postproductivist’ transition from a previously ‘productivist’ agriculture. This notion became more popular throughout the 1990s as a way to capture in one convenient package the complex changes experienced by both the agricultural sector specifically and within rural areas more generally. However, the widespread and uncritical use of such an all-encompassing ter…
Agricultural turns, geographical turns: Retrospect and prospect
Re-assessing agrarian policy and practice in local environmental management: The case of beef cattle
View with a view: Towards a typology of multiple perspective constructions
From 'As Good as Gold' to 'Gold Diggers: Farming Women and the Survival of British Family Farming
The survival of family farming in British agriculture has long been a topic of interest for rural researchers and is undergoing something of a current renewal of interest. However, insights from feminist approaches remain underutilised despite the crucial role farming women continue to play in family farming. This article addresses the unity of farm, family and business by interpreting it as a patriarchal way of life. An ethnographically informed…
A Lleyn Sweep for Local Sheep? Breed Societies and the Geographies of Welsh Livestock
In this paper we use Bourdieu's concept of habitus to examine human-animal relationships within capitalist agricultural systems. In the first part of the paper we examine how Bourdieu's ideas have been used by academics to provide insights into the ways that livestock affect and are affected by farming practice. In the second part we build on these conceptual, empirical, and policy insights by examining some of the national and international soci…
From stress to distress: Conceptualizing the British family farming patriarchal way of life
Adjustment strategies revisited: Agricultural change in the Welsh Marches
Multifunctional Agriculture: A Transition Theory Perspective
The enigma of Pama-Nyungan expansion in Australia
Using language to date the origin and spread of food production, Archaeology and Language II represents groundbreaking work in synthesizing two disciplines that are now seen as interlinked: linguistics and archaeology. This volume is the second part of a three-part survey of innovative results emerging from their combination. Archaeology and historical linguistics have largely pursued separate tracks until recently, although their goals can be ve…
Rural Wales in the Twenty-First Century: Society, Economy and Environment
Agriculture – Who cares? An investigation of ‘care farming’ in the UK
Social Return on Investment: Valuing health outcomes or promoting economic values
Interventions and activities that influence health are often concerned with intangible outcomes that are difficult to value despite their potential significance. Social Return on Investment is an evaluation framework that explores all aspects of change and expresses these in comparable terms. It combines qualitative narratives and quantitative measurements with a financial approach to enable outcomes that can otherwise be overlooked or undervalue…
Babylon to brexit: Gareth Dale's Polanyi
Th is text looks at the early Communist intellectual movement in Slovakia (in an area that, for part of the time under discussion, was affi liated with the the Hungarian Soviet Republic) organized around the journal Kassai Munkás (Th e Košice Worker).By placing this movement in the context of the development of Western Marxism and the incipient Marxist aesthetics of György Lukács, who was among those who published in the journal, the paper charac…
Friend or foe? UK farmers' relationships with the weather
Geography (22 works) · Agriculture (17 works) · Political science (17 works) · Economics (15 works) · Rural development and sustainability (15 works) · Sociology (15 works) · History (10 works) · Archaeology (9 works) · Ecology (9 works) · Business (7 works)