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Departmental Disability Co-ordinator (Department of Sociology)
Unit co-Leader - MA Globalisation: Media, Culture and Consumption
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.
C. Porter (2019). Supporter Ownership in English Football Class, Culture and Politics. Palgrave Macmillan.
C. Porter, A. May, A. Kiernan (2019). Football, Community and Sustainability. Routledge.
C. Porter (2019). Supporter Ownership in English Football Class, Culture and Politics. Palgrave Macmillan.
C. Porter, A. May, A. Kiernan (2016). ‘Thinking long and wide’: which communities have a future within the global game?. Soccer & Society. 17(5), pp.661-665.
C. Porter (2008). Manchester United, global capitalism and local resistance. Belgeo. pp.181-192.
G. Mellor, C. Porter (2008). Respect Athlete Mentoring Programme (RAMP) Monitoring and Evaluation Report 2007/08. Substance/Youth Sports Trust, Youth Sports Trust.
A. Brown, J. Massey, C. Porter (2004). The Sports Development Impact of the 2002 Commonwealth Games: Post Games Report. , UK Sport.
2005 “Football Ownership, Local Identity and Regulation” International Conference on Sport and Urban Development, Beurs-World Trade Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2005 “Manchester's re-imaging strategies: a city united?” International Football Institute (IFI) Research Forum, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK.
2006 “The Urban Battleground of the Local and the Global: Interdependencies and Contradictions” Sociology Seminar Series, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.
2007 “‘Through thick and thin’: is blind loyalty still enough for football fans?” Annual Research Student Conference, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.
2007 “Opposing the Global in the Everyday City” Everyday Life in the Global City Conference, Manchester Institute of Social and Spatial Transformations, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.
2007 “Consumers, Fanatics, Tourists, Militants And Rebels: In The Globalising World Of Football, What’s Happening To The Supporters?” International Sociology of Sport Association (ISSA) / International Society for the History of Physical Education and Sport (ISHPES) Joint World Congress, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
2008 “Red Army on the March: Football fan protests and political engagement” Alternative Futures and Popular Protest XIII, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.
2009 “Let’s Pretend: English Football Clubs and their Imagined Communities” Manchester Institute of Social and Spatial Transformations, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.
2012 "Little United and the Big Society: Football Clubs and Community Volunteering" Football and Community conference, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
2012 "Football Supporter Culture & Globalisation: An Uneasy Relationship" Global Studies Association Conference, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
‘Sport in the Era of Austerity’, Manchester Policy Week, hosted by the University of Manchester (01st December 2013)
Member of the Global Studies Association