Independent Researcher

independent scholar (for which read "unemployed"), formerly Research Assistant, Centre for Employment Studies Research

Thesis Title: see books

About

BSc (Bangor) MA (Exeter) PhD (Bristol)

I am not the guitarist in U2, so you may have the wrong web-page
: )

*from late 2011 i am wandering the globe teaching English for a prolonged period, and may be slow to respond to any queries; thankyou for your patience* It is hugely unlikely that i will be in the UK again, or work in academia.

My dayjob at UWE was researching Health and Wellbeing in the Workplace (following Dame Carol Black's report) as part of a joint project wth other UK universities. Now ended fixed-term contract (as of May 2011) and out of that job, so will alter research interests accordingly soon

My work profile page is here until such point as they take it down: http://bbs-staff.uwe.ac.uk/public/profile.aspx?username=df-evans  the @uwe.ac.uk email address to be found there is defunct

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In my own time as an independent researcher I am (among other things)

A social-cultural Historian of post ww2 British occultism (see http://hiddenpublishing.com/),
An Ethnographer of Rave Culture and Eclectic New Religious Movements,
A World War 2 Historian (see http://www.normandyd-day.com) ,
Researcher of entheogenic religious experience, Researcher of memorialistation/shrines (http://westengland.academia.edu/daveevans/Talks) and Student of Death Studies (http://westengland.academia.edu/daveevans/Talks).

I'm published in some but not all of those areas

Some years ago I co-founded an e-list (and associated Journal http://www.sasm.co.uk/) in the field of academic approaches to Magic, we now have 400+ respondents across over a dozen disciplines and it is a fabulous and friendly resource for any scholarly questions/discussion of occult-magic-paganism subjects; please feel free to join up, via this page http://www.uwe.ac.uk/hlss/research/usrc/sasm/discussionlist.shtml

As well as academic conference I also do public talks, of which one reviewer wrote:

... (Occulture Festival May 2009) Dr Gail Nina Anderson writes in Fortean Times issue 253, p 45 "Occulture did offer other routes of access to topics centred less on belief than on intellectual engagement. Dr Dave Evans, author of The History of British Magic After Crowley, shredded the pedigree of Amado Crowley, self-styled illegitimate son of the great Beast, with wit and vigour"

And I publish both academically and in magazines such as Fortean Times and Pentacle

In other lives i have worked as a pathologist, tree surgeon, civil servant... not enough room here for the whole list

I can be contacted on a webform via http://daveevansuk.reachby.com/

My ESSWE profile page (for esoteric areas of interest) is here http://www.esswe.org/member_detail.php?member_id=269&ref=