Steve Jackson is a Professor specialising in the socio-cultural analysis of sport at the University of Otago, New Zealand. He is a graduate of the University of Western Ontario (Canada) and the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (USA). He is a past president of the International Sociology of Sport Association (ISSA) and Research Committee 27 of the International Sociology Association (ISA), 2008–2015, and Co-Director of the New Zealand Centre for Sport Policy & Politics. Professor Jackson's research focuses on globalisation, national identity and the media, and his current research projects include Advertising and the Colonisation of Sport Culture; Sport, Culture and Alcohol, and Globalisation, Sport and Corporate Nationalism.
