David Miller
David Miller is Professor of Sociology in the Department of Social & Policy Sciences at the University of Bath in England. He is one of the world’s leading academic experts on Islamophobia, and also specialises in the analysis of state and corporate lobbying. He teaches political sociology at the University of Bristol and set up the UK’s lobbying watchdog, Spinwatch, which has tracked corporate power for 15 years. Spinwatch’s work has included investigations on the pharmaceutical lobby, the fossil fuel and fracking lobbies, as well as state lobbies that promote Islamophobia, such as those of Israel and the United Arab Emirates.
Miller is interested in understanding power: who has it, how it is exercised and how it can be democratised. He is mostly interested in studying the powerful and is interested in a wide range of methods for doing so, including via investigative research, which he pursues with a range of collaborators.