Steve Roberts is Professor of Education & Social Justice in the School of Education, Culture and Society. Steve is an internationally recognised expert in research on youth, social class inequality and young people’s transitions to adulthood, and also on the changing nature of men and masculinities. The latter includes men’s engagement with risky drinking; sexting; emotionality; computer gaming; violence; domestic labour; compulsory and post-compulsory education; employment. He has published widely in a variety of esteemed international journals, including The Sociological Review, Sociology, British Journal of Sociology of Education, Continuing Studies in Education, Boyhood Studies, British Educational Research Journal, Journal of Youth Studies, and New Media and Society. He is also (co)author of three research monographs, (co)editor of five edited volumes, and co-author of the teaching text book 'Youth Sociology' (Palgrave, 2020). 

Steve is currently Associate Editor of Journal of Youth Studies, an International Advisory Editor of Men and Masculinities and a member of VicHealth's inaugral Research Expert Advisory Panel.  He was a member of the Scientific Advisory Group of the Australian Institute for Family Studies ‘Ten to Men’ study from 2019-2021.

Steve has been awarded competitive research funding from the UK's ESRC, the Australian Research Council, VicHealth, ANROWS, Dept. of Prime Minister and Cabinet, Dept. of Education, Skills and Employment, among others. Notably, he was lead CI for the much publicised and prize winning 'Men’s Risky Drinking' project, funded by VicHealth. 

Steve joined Monash University in February 2015, and was based in the School of Social Sciences for seven years before moving to the Faculty of Education. Prior to joining Monash he held ongoing academic positions at the School of Education, University of Southampton, and then at the School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research, University of Kent. Steve obtained an MA in Social Research Methods, a PhD in Social Policy (both funded by the UK's Economic and Social Research Council) and his teaching qualifications all at University of Kent.  

 Steve is keen to hear from prospective research students who are interested in projects focussing on some aspect of either (broadly speaking):

1) men, masculinity, inequality and social change – this might be changes and continuities in masculinity, men's employment, men's education trajectories, men’s risk taking, men’s friendships, homophobia, sexuality, drinking practices.

2) young people’s transition to adulthood and their experience of the contemporary world - this might be gender identities (especially masculinity), housing, family formation, leisure lives, risk taking, cultural consumption, education or work, for example.