Dr. Steven McCabe is Associate Professor in the Institute of Design and Economic Acceleration (IDEA) and Senior Fellow in the Centre for Brexit Studies (CBS) at Birmingham City University when he has been based as an academic and researcher since joining in 1987 when it was Birmingham Polytechnic.

Steven has published numerous texts, papers and chapters on various aspects of management, social history and technology. As well as writing a weekly blog for CBS, he regularly comments in the local, national and international press and media on political, economic and business issues.

Since March 2019 Steven has co-edited Brexit and Northern Ireland, Bordering on Confusion (published by Bite-Sized Books) and written chapters in Brexit Negotiations after Article 50: Assessing Process, Progress and Impact, (edited by De Ruyter and Nielsen, published by Emerald Group Publishing), Boris, Brexit and the Media (edited by Mair, Clark, Fowler, Snoddy and Tait, published by Abramis Academic Publishing), The Virus and the Media: How British Journalists Covered the Pandemic (edited by Mair, published by Bite-Sized Books) and The Wolves in the Forest: Tackling Inequality in the 21st Century (edited by Paul Hindley and Paul Hishman, published by Social Liberal Forum).