STEVE REDHEAD is Professor of Legal Studies in the Faculty of Social Science and Humanities at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT), Ontario, Canada. He has honours and masters degrees from the University of Manchester and a Ph.D from the University of Warwick. He has supervised hundreds of postgraduates including twenty-eight Ph.D students to completion. He has worked in numerous countries around the world and is widely recognised as an international scholar in social, legal and cultural theory and the study of urban and popular culture. Formerly Professor of Law and Popular Culture at Manchester Metropolitan University he directed the Unit for Law and Popular Culture and co-directed the Manchester Institute for Popular Culture (MIPC) in Manchester, North West of England and co-directed the Centre for Sport Research at the University of Brighton, Sussex, in the South East of England.
He is author, or editor, of many books including Sing When You’re Winning: The Last Football Book (Pluto Press, London and New Hampshire, 1987), The End-of-the-Century Party: Youth and Pop Towards 2000 (Manchester University Press, Manchester and NY, 1990), Football With Attitude (Wordsmith, Manchester, 1991), Rave Off: Politics and Deviance in Contemporary Youth Culture (Avebury, Aldershot, 1993, reprinted 1995), The Passion and The Fashion: Football Fandom in the New Europe (Avebury, Aldershot, 1993). Unpopular Cultures: The Birth of Law and Popular Culture (Manchester University Press, Manchester and NY, 1995), Subculture To Clubcultures: An Introduction to Popular Cultural Studies (Blackwell, Oxford, 1997 and Golden Bough, Seoul,1999), The Clubcultures Reader: Readings in Popular Cultural Studies (Blackwell, Oxford, 1997), Post-Fandom And The Millennial Blues: The Transformation of Soccer Culture (Routledge, London and NY, 1997), Repetitive Beat Generation (Rebel Inc/Canongate, Edinburgh, 2000), Paul Virilio: Theorist for an Accelerated Culture (Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh/University of Toronto Press, Toronto and Buffalo, 2004), The Paul Virilio Reader (Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh/Columbia University Press, NY, European Perspectives, 2004), The Jean Baudrillard Reader (Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh/Columbia University Press, NY, European Perspectives, 2008), We Have Never Been Postmodern: Theory at the Speed of Light (Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2011, distributed in North America by Columbia University Press, NY) and Post-Subcultural Criminology (forthcoming).
He has written many chapters, articles, reviews and reports and has carried out consultancy and advisory work with diverse bodies including the BBC, Granada TV, Department of Culture, Media and Sport, Lancashire County Cricket Club, Manchester City FC, Manchester United FC, Factory Records, WA Asthma Foundation, New Zealand Government and Wellington City Council. He chaired the Creative Industries Taskforce of the State Government of Western Australia in 2004. He has also been a specialist policy advisor on mobile city cultures to the Minister of Culture and the Arts, the Department of Industry and Resources and the Office of the Premier in the State Government of Western Australia in Perth. He was co-editor of Ashgate’s Arena ‘Popular Cultural Studies’ fifteen book series.He has worked on various collaborative academic research projects including The Culture Industry, Culture of Cities and Whatever Happened to the Leisure Society? He is a writer on the renowned popular music website www.rocksbackpages.com., editor of Berg’s Subcultural Style book series and is a member of many international journal editorial boards including Sport in Society, International Journal of Child, Youth and Family Studies and Entertainment and Sports Law Journal.
He has held various overseas Visiting Professorships, including Visiting European Professor at the School of Communication, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada in 1994, Visiting Professor on the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada ‘Culture of Cities’ project at McGill University and York University, Canada, 1999-2001 and Visiting Professor and Visiting Fellow in Communications and Cultural Studies in the School of Media, Communication and Culture at Murdoch University, Perth, Western Australia in 2002.