Rob Steen Illustrator, Author & Editor

Rob Steen is a senior lecturer and co-leader of the BA (Hons) Sport Journalism course at the University of Brighton. An award-winning author, journalist and sportswriter for more than 30 years, he has written for, among others, the Sunday Times (where he was deputy sports editor), the Guardian, the Independent, the FT, the Melbourne Age, the Hindustan Times and India Today as well as Sport in Society and the International Journal of the History of Sport. A longstanding columnist for Cricinfo, winner of the 2005 UK section of the EU Journalism Award "for diversity, against discrimination", he has written more than a dozen sports books, including Spring, Summer, Autumn (runner-up for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year), David Gower: A Man Out of Time (winner of the Cricket Society Literary Award) and his latest, Floodlights and Touchlines: A History of Spectator Sport, which was shortlisted for the 2014 William Hill award