Media Studies : Industries, Texts and Audiences

Leighton Evans is an Associate Professor of Media Theory at Swansea University. Leighton teaches across the undergraduate programmes in the department of Media and Communication, and his research focuses on the phenomenology of immersive media and the mediation of everyday life by digital media. Leighton is the author of Locative Social Media (2015), The Re-emergence of Virtual Reality (2018) and the co-author of Location-based Social Media: Space, Time and Identity (2017) and Intergenerational Locative Play: Augmenting Family (2021).In 2023, Leighton was the recipient of the Dillwyn Medal in Social Sciences, Business and Education from the Learned Society of Wales in recognition of his research. In the same year, Leighton was the recipient of a Swansea University Academy of Teaching and Learning (SALT) Excellence in Teaching Award, nominated by his students.