Dr Steven McCabe formerly Associate Professor at Birmingham City University is now Professor and Pro Vice Chancellor at DoctorateHub. Prior to becoming an academic in 1987, where he taught economics and management as well as researching business, he worked in housebuilding. Steven writes and comments in the media extensively on management, business matters and politics.

As well as writing a number of chapters dealing with Brexit, inequality and the pandemic, Steven has co-edited Brexit and Northern Ireland, Bordering on Confusion, (published in 2019), English Regions After Brexit: Examining Potential Change through Devolved Power (published in 2020), and Exploring the Green Economy, Issues, Challenges, and Benefits and Green Manufacturing, what this involves and how to achieve success (both published in 2021), Another Way (published 2022), India at 75, Thoughts and Reflections (published in 2023) and Net Zero – Creating Solutions for a Greener Society and Sustainable Economic Growth (published 2025).