Syd Jeffers is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of East London, UK. He formerly taught at the University of Leicester and was a Research Fellow at the School for Advanced Urban Studies at the University of Bristol. He is currently a trustee of the British Sociological Association and is a member of the Editorial Collective of the journal Critical Social Policy.

He has been a Gooner since the early 1980s and is a season-ticket holder.