Professor David Miller

Summary

David Miller is Professor of Political Sociology in the School for Policy Studies at the University of Bristol.

He is an investigative researcher interested in concentrations of power in society and how they might be democratised and made accountable. He works on corporate and state power and how they are (re)produced in particular through policy and expert processes and via social movements from both above and below.  Recent work has focused on terrorism and counter terrorism, the sociology of expertise, lobbying, public relations and propaganda - especially of the British government, think tanks, Islamophobia, the Zionist movement, corporate influences on health and science, conflict of interest and the financing of the conservative movement.

David is a director of Public Interest Investigations a non profit company of which Spinwatch and Powerbase are projects; a director of the non-profit Organisation for Propaganda Studies; and a member of the Working Group on Syria, Propaganda and the Media.

Teaching

SPOLM0014 Introduction to Qualitative Research Methods in the Social Sciences

SPOL20034 Harms of the Powerful

Memberships

Organisations

School for Policy Studies

Research centres

• Centre for the Study in Poverty and Social Justice

Recent publications

• Bakir, V, Herring, E, Miller, D & Robinson, P, 2018, ‘Organized Persuasive Communication: A new conceptual framework for research on public relations, propaganda and promotional culture’. Critical Sociology.
• Miller, D, 2018, ‘Revealed: rebranded D-Notice committee issued two notices over Skripal affair’. Public Interest Investigations, Spinwatch
• Miller, D, Mills, T & Massoumi, N, 2018, ‘We should aim our attention at powerful institutions and the super-rich’. Network: British Sociological Association Newsletter., pp. 22-24
• Bakir, V, Miller, D & Herring, E, 2018, ‘Lying and Deception in Politics'’. in: The Oxford Handbook of Lying. Oxford University Press, UK, pp. 529-540
• McKeigue, P, Mason, J, Miller, D & Robinson, P, 2018, ‘Briefing note: the alleged chemical attack in Douma on 7 April 2018, and other alleged chlorine attacks in Syria since 2014’.
• Delmar-Morgan, A & Miller, D, 2018, ‘The UAE Lobby: Subverting British democracy?’. Public Interest Investigations
• McKeigue, P, Miller, D & Robinson, P, 2018, ‘Briefing Note: Update on the Salisbury poisonings’. Working Group on Syria, Propaganda and Media
• Miller, D, 2018, ‘Russia, Novichok and the long tradition of British government misinformation’. Open Democracy
• Miller, D, 2017, ‘The Neoconservative Movement: Think Tanks as Elite Elements of Social Movements From Above’. in: Narzanin Massoumi, Tom Mills, David Miller (eds) What is Islamophobia? Racism, Social Movements and the State. Pluto Press, UK, pp. 215-233
• Miller, D, Massoumi, N & Mills, T, 2017, ‘The challenge of Islamophobia’. in: Mayer Wakefield (eds) Why We Need A New Foreign Policy. Stop the War Coalition, pp. 21-25

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