STEVE REDHEAD is Professor of Sport and Media Cultures in the Chelsea School at the University of Brighton. He has honours and masters degrees from the University of Manchester and a Ph.D from the University of Warwick. He has worked in numerous countries around the world, including Canada and Australia as well as the UK, and is a recognised international scholar in social, legal and cultural theory and urban and popular culture. He has successfully supervised 25 Ph.D students and examined at postgraduate level all over the world. He is co-editor of Berg’s Subcultural Style book series and a contributor to http://www.rocksbackpages.com.

Formerly Professor of Law and Popular Culture at Manchester Metropolitan University he has been a member of the Senior Management of various Humanities and Social Science departments. He has been on the Senior Staff of several Universities responsible to the Vice Chancellor and appointed to national research, teaching and learning quality agencies such as the Council for National Academic Awards.
In Manchester he created and directed the Unit for Law and Popular Culture and the internationally known Manchester Institute for Popular Culture (MIPC) research centre.

Steve is author of Sing When You're Winning: The Last Football Book (Pluto Press, London, 1987), The End-of-the-Century Party: Youth and Pop Towards 2000 (Manchester University Press, Manchester and New York, 1990), Football With Attitude (Wordsmith, Manchester, 1991), Unpopular Cultures: The Birth of Law and Popular Culture (Manchester University Press, Manchester and New York, 1995), Subculture To Clubcultures: An Introduction to Popular Cultural Studies (Blackwell, Oxford, 1997 and Golden Bough, Seoul, Korea, 1999), Post-Fandom And The Millennial Blues: The Transformation of Soccer Culture (Routledge, London and New York, 1997), Repetitive Beat Generation (Rebel Inc/Canongate, Edinburgh, 2000) and Paul Virilio: Theorist for an Accelerated Culture (Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, and University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 2004). Steve is the editor of Rave Off: Politics and Deviance in Contemporary Youth Culture (Avebury, Aldershot, 1993, reprinted 1995) and The Passion and The Fashion: Football Fandom in the New Europe (Avebury, Aldershot, 1993) and the Ashgate 'Popular Cultural Studies' book series. He has organised and co-edited The Clubcultures Reader: Readings in Popular Cultural Studies (Blackwell, Oxford, 1997), as well as the collaborative report The Culture Industry (Avebury, Aldershot, 1992) edited by Derek Wynne. He has created and edited The Paul Virilio Reader and The Jean Baudrillard Reader (Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, and Columbia University Press, New York, 2004 and 2008).

Steve has has held various overseas Visiting Professor appointments, including Visiting European Professor at the School of Communication, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada in 1994 and Visiting Professor in the School of Media, Communication and Culture at Murdoch University, Perth, Western Australia in 2002-3. In 2004 he chaired the Creative Industries Taskforce for the Premier of Western Australia.