Professor Steven Miles

Professor Steven Miles is the faculty of Art’s Director of Postgraduate Studies. Steven joined Brighton from the University of Liverpool where he was part of the management group of Impacts 08, the research programme designed to assess the social, cultural and economic impacts of European Capital of Culture.

Steven previously worked at Northumbria University where he was Head of Research for the Centre for Cultural Policy and Management and where he conducted a large-scale research project into the impact of cultural investment on Newcastle Gateshead Quayside. Many years previously Steven undertook his PhD in the Behavioural Sciences Department at the University of Huddersfield in which he was concerned with the relationship between consumption and identity amongst young people.

Steven’s research interests concern the sociology of consumption and cultural policy and regeneration. He is the author of 'Consumerism as a Way of Life' and 'Youth Lifestyles in a Changing World.'