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PhD, University of Huddersfield, 1996
MA in Contemporary Sociology, Lancaster University, 1992.
BA (Hons.) Fist Class Humanities, Nottingham Trent Polytechnic, 1990.
2013 – Professor of Sociology
2009 – 2013 Professor of Urban Culture/Director of Postgraduate Studies (Arts), University of Brighton.
2004 – 2009 Reader, University of Liverpool
2002 – 2004 Reader, Head of Research, Centre for Cultural Policy and Management, Northumbria University.
1997 – 2002 Principal Lecturer, University of Plymouth.
1995 – 1997 Lecturer, University of Glasgow
Departmental research co-ordinator.
Postgraduate Studies co-ordinator.
Consumption and Identity in Contemporary Society: Level 3 undergraduate unit
MA European Urban Cultures
I am currently writing a book to be published by Routledge and entitled, ‘Retail and Social Change’ and am involved in a number of other publishing projects. I am working with the British Council to advise the Brazilian government as to the role of the creative industries in economic development. I was co-investigator on an AHRC research project, ‘the Brighton FUSE’ designed to look at what can be learnt from the Creative, Digital and IT cluster in Brighton and was responsible for designing Impacts08 the largest research programme looking at the social, cultural and economic impacts of European Capital of Culture, worldwide.
Research and areas for potential PhD supervision
S. Miles (2012). Spaces for Consumption: Pleasure and Placelessness in the Post-Industrial City. SAGE Publications Ltd.
K. Meethan, A. Anderson, S. Miles (2006). Preface.
K. Meethan, A. Anderson, S. Miles (2006). Tourism consumption and representation: Narratives of place and self.
S. Miles, K. Meethan, A. Anderson (2005). Introduction: The meaning of consumption;the meaning of change?.
S. Miles, A. Anderson, K. Meethan (2005). The Changing Consumer. A. Anderson, K. Meethan, RS. Miles, S. Miles. Routledge.
S. Miles (2020). Consuming culture-led regeneration: the rise and fall of the democratic urban experience. Space and Polity. 24(2), pp.210-224.
S. Miles (2019). Immersive narratives of ‘self-work’ in an experience society: understanding the cruise ship experience. Leisure Studies. 38(4), pp.523-534.
S. Miles (2016). What clothes should leisure research wear?. Annals of Leisure Research. 19(3), pp.270-274.
S. Miles (2014). The Beijing Olympics: complicit consumerism and the re-invention of citizenship. Contemporary Social Science. 9(2), pp.159-172.
S. Miles (2013). The Beijing Olympics: Complicit consumerism and the re-invention of citizenship. Contemporary Social Science.
S. Miles (2012). The neoliberal city and the pro-active complicity of the citizen consumer. Journal of Consumer Culture. 12(2), pp.216-230.
M. Pyšňáková, S. Miles (2010). The post-revolutionary consumer generation: ‘mainstream’ youth and the paradox of choice in the Czech Republic. Journal of Youth Studies. 13(5), pp.533-547.
D. O'Brien, S. Miles (2010). Cultural policy as rhetoric and reality: a comparative analysis of policy making in the peripheral north of England. Cultural Trends. 19(1-2), pp.3-13.
S. Miles (2007). Feeling 10 feet tall: creative inclusion in a community of practice. British Journal of Sociology of Education. 28(4), pp.505-518.
S. Miles (2007). ‘Different journeys at different speeds’: Young People, Risk and the Challenge of Creative Learning. Journal of Youth Studies. 10(3), pp.271-284.
S. Miles (2005). Understanding the Cultural ‘Case’. Sociology. 39(5), pp.1019-1028.
S. Miles, R. Paddison (2005). Introduction: The Rise and Rise of Culture-led Urban Regeneration. Urban Studies. 42(5-6), pp.833-839.
S. Miles (2005). 'Our Tyne': Iconic Regeneration and the Revitalisation of Identity in NewcastleGateshead. Urban Studies. 42(5-6), pp.913-926.
K. Moore, S. Miles (2004). Young people, dance and the sub-cultural consumption of drugs. Addiction Research & Theory. 12(6), pp.507-523.
S. Miles (2004). Newcastle Gateshead Quayside: Cultural investment and identities of resistance. Capital & Class. 28(3), pp.183-189.
C. Bailey, S. Miles, P. Stark (2004). CULTURE‐LED URBAN REGENERATION AND THE REVITALIsATION OF IDENTITIES IN NEWCASTLE, GATESHEAD AND THE NORTH EAST OF ENGLAND. International Journal of Cultural Policy. 10(1), pp.47-65.
S. Miles, R. Paddison (1998). Urban Consumption: An Historiographical Note. Urban Studies. 35(5-6), pp.815-823.
S. Miles (1998). The Consuming Paradox: A New Research Agenda for Urban Consumption. Urban Studies. 35(5-6), pp.1001-1008.
S. Miles (1996). The Cultural Capital of Consumption: Understanding 'Postmodern' Identities in a Cultural Context. Culture & Psychology. 2(2), pp.139-158.
S. Miles (2021). Rethinking aging - the selfless consumer: Older people, risk and uncertainty in contemporary China. In: Aging in Asia. pp.161-173.
S. Miles (2017). Victims of risk? Young people and the construction of lifestyles. In: Young People in Risk Society: The Restructuring of Youth Identities and Transitions in Late Modernity. pp.58-73.
IG. Cook, S. Miles (2016). Olympic Cities. JR. Gold, MM. Gold. In: Olympic Cities: City Agendas, Planning, and the World's Games, 1896-2020. Routledge, pp.359-377.
S. Miles (2015). Consumption and place. In: The Routledge Companion to the Cultural Industries. Routledge, pp.228-237.
S. Miles (2013). Branded Space; Branded Consumers: Spaces for Consumption and the Uncomfortable Consequences of Complicit Communality. In: Branded Spaces. Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, pp.217-228.
IG. Cook, S. Miles (2010). Olympic Cities. JR. Gold, MM. Gold. In: Olympic Cities: City Agendas, Planning and the World's Games, 1896-2016: Second Edition. Routledge, pp.340-358.
S. Miles (2006). Small city - big ideas: Culture-led regeneration and the consumption of place. In: Small Cities: Urban Experience Beyond the Metropolis. pp.233-243.
S. Miles (2005). Consuming youth: Consuming lifestyles. In: The Changing Consumer: Markets and Meanings. pp.131-144.
S. Miles (2004). Resistance or security? Young people and the 'appropriation' of urban, cultural and consumer space. In: Urban Futures: Critical Commentaries on shaping Cities. pp.65-75.
E. Ettorre, S. Miles (2004). Young people, drug use and the Aconsumption of health. In: Consuming Health: The Commodification of Health Care. pp.173-186.