Dr Chris Porter

My profile

Biography

Other academic service (administration and management)

Departmental Disability Co-ordinator (Department of Sociology)

Membership of professional associations

Member of the Global Studies Association

Teaching

Postgraduate teaching

Unit co-Leader - MA Globalisation: Media, Culture and Consumption

Subject areas

Sociology

Supervision

  • PhD Supervisor
  • Masters Dissertation Supervisor

Research outputs

Key research interests for Chris revolve around class, culture and politics. This includes topics such as football fandom, supporter ownership, globalisation, community, consumption, popular culture and local identity. His doctoral thesis involved an exploration of the potential for political engagement within Manchester’s football supporter culture.

Subsequent research has focused on the participatory structure of fan-owned football clubs, volunteering, community activism and the current political and economic climate of austerity and neoliberalism. Chris is a member of the Centre for the Study of Football and its Communities (CSFC), a research group based within the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at MMU, that through multidisciplinary and international collaboration, and partnerships with football industry practitioners, aims to shine a critical light on claims by football clubs and authorities to be operating in the interests of their communities.