Redhead held professorships in Canada and the United Kingdom, and a Visiting Professorship at
Murdoch University in Australia. While his later scholarship focused on
Paul Virilio and theories of accelerated
modernity, he was known for his research on post-youth culture, law,
critical criminology, and popular culture and
football fanzines. He held an LLB and LLM from
Manchester University, and a PhD from the
University of Warwick. Combining law and cultural studies, his scholarship focused on theories of deviance in both football fandom and dance cultures, along with current interests in speed, terrorism, football memoirs, war and theories of social change. Redhead was known for a series of scholarly innovations, in theories of deviance, (post) youth culture and accelerated modernity. While later working in
Bathurst in regional New South Wales, Australia, most of his career was spent at
Manchester Metropolitan University where he was Co-Director of the Manchester Institute for Popular Culture with Derek Wynne. A
media commentator, he appeared on the
BBC4 programme,
Dance Britannia. He was also a podcaster and developed a series of micro interviews with Tara Brabazon. Redhead died on 8 March 2018. ==Publications==