Dr. Andrew Miles

Biography

Andrew Miles has been an academic since the mid-1980s, specializing in social history. He has held positions at various UK universities including Keele, Warwick, Cardiff, and Birmingham from 1992 to 2002. After a brief hiatus from academia while working as a consultant in the cultural sector, he re-entered the academic world in 2004 with a focus on cultural sector research methods through his affiliation with CRESC (the ESRC Centre for Research on Socio-cultural Change). He became a Reader in Sociology at the University of Manchester in 2012. His major projects have included the AHRC-funded project 'Understanding Everyday Participation – Articulating Cultural Values' and the EPSRC project on travel and transport behavior. Andrew's research primarily explores cultural stratification, class issues, social mobility, and cultural participation, contributing significantly to the understanding of class and culture in the UK, including co-authoring 'Social Class in the 21st Century'.

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