 He was awarded a European Research Council Advanced Grant (2013–2018) for Neo-Milk, The Milking Revolution in Temperate Neolithic Europe, which investigated where, when and why dairying arose in temperate Neolithic Europe.Evershed was awarded the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Interdisciplinary Award in 2003, and the Aston Medal of the British Mass Spectrometry Society in 2010.In 2016, he was the winner of the Royal Society of Chemistry's Robert Boyle Prize for Analytical Science.