Mr
Liam
Miles
Lecturer in Criminology
Faculty of Business and Law
Staff Profile
Mr Liam
Liam Miles is a lecturer in Criminology. Prior to his appointment at UON, Liam taught Criminology and Sociology at Birmingham City University and Birmingham Newman University – where he contributed to the development of modules at both Undergraduate and Postgraduate levels. Liam’s PhD research leans into Community based Research, with a particular focus on the Cost-of-Living Crisis and its effects on young people. Through this, Liam’s research has informed regional and local policy making across the West Midlands and he continues to have strong working relations with local authorities and local charity organisations such as the Birmingham Poverty Truth Commission. Liam’s other research interests involve the Political Economy of Crime, Youth and Community and social harm-based perspectives. Liam is an active member of the British Society of Criminology.
- Criminological Theory
- Criminological Research
- Youth and Crime
- Political Economy
- Prisons and Punishment
- Policing, Crime and Society
PhD title: How are young people in Birmingham affected by the Cost-of-Living Crisis?
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Miles L and Azad M (2026) Service encounters and the manufacture of harm: violence in the service economy under late-modernity. Frontiers in Sociology. Vol 11. Available at https://doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2026.1782224
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Jones, S., Azad, M., Miles, L., and Lynes, A (2025) Embracing the Unknown: Experiences of doing a PhD in the social sciences. Bristol, UK: Policy Press.
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Miles, L (2023) Communities of Rupture, Insecurity and Risk: Inevitable and Necessary for Meaningful Political Change? In: S, Page., M, Coates., J, Tipping., J, Frangos., and K, Goldstraw. Action on Poverty in the UK. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. C.4. P.p. 51-69.
- Miles, L. (2023). Understanding violence on British university campuses through the lens of the deviant leisure perspective. Journal of Consumer Culture, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/14695405231186471