Dr Sam Miles

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Sam is a Senior Lecturer at Barts and The London and Queen Mary University of London. As theme lead for Sociology, Sam delivers and develops the teaching of social sciences across the Medical School. He teaches medical students on the MBBS in London and Malta, as well as on the intercalated BSc in Medical Education and the MA in Education for Clinical Contexts.

Sam is the Deputy Lead for Student Selected Components (SSCs) for MBBS Year 1 and Year 2, and co-lead for the Human Sciences and Public Health module. He also teaches on the Fundamentals of Medicine module, Theory Behind Teaching & Learning, and Clinical Communication Skills modules, and is a PBL tutor for Fundamentals of Medicine and iBSc Medical Education. Sam also teaches qualitative research methods including ethnography, interviewing and focus groups, and runs workshops on qualitative data analysis including NVivo. He is a MedPro supervisor and Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Sam joined QMUL from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, where he worked from 2017-2022 in the Faculty for Public Health & Policy. His research focused on sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), young people and community participation, as part of the DEPTH public health research group. Sam completed his 1+3 ESRC-funded Research Methods MRes and PhD in Human Geography at QMUL in 2017, with a doctoral thesis analysing mobile phone dating apps and MSM health and wellbeing. He holds a BA (Hons) and MA from University of Exeter.

Sam’s research has included sexual and reproductive health in complex environments (funded by UK FCDO), young people's experiences of sickle cell disease (funded by NIHR), and online life for young people and LGBTQ communities (funded by ESRC). With LSHTM colleagues he has conducted research into Covid-19 and NHS and public health services for Gypsy, Roma & Traveller communities and migrant workers (funded by UK Department of Health), as well as co-production and PPI iniatives in London NHS Health Services (funded by NIHR ARC).

Before returning to academia in 2012, Sam worked for the British Council in Madrid, in media technology for LIFT festival, and in fundraising for the Helen Bamber Foundation.

Sam welcomes enquiries for MBBS dissertation and iBSc, MA and PhD supervision in sociology, public health, digital technology, qualitative research, LGBTQ and queer health, sexual health and co-production/PPI.

Teaching

• Deputy Lead Student Selected Components (SSCs) MBBS Year 1 and Year 2

• Co-lead Human Sciences and Public Health (MBBS) with Dr Esther Murray

• Lecturer, Fundamentals of Medicine (MBBS); Year 2 SSC Induction (MBBS); Medical Education (iBSc); Education for Clinical Contexts (MA)

• PBL tutor, Fundamentals of Medicine (MBBS); Medical Education (iBSc)

• Tutor, Clinical Communication Skills, Years 1-5 (MBBS)

• MedPro supervisor

• iBSc dissertation supervisor

• OSCE invigilator, Years 2-4
  
  
• Workshops on ethnography, interviewing, focus groups, qualitative data analysis & NVivo (IMER MA)

Research

Research Interests:

Sam’s research interests include LGBTQ and queer health, sexual health, digital technologies, young people’s health and wellbeing, PPI and co-production, higher education teaching and learning, qualitative research methods and qualitative data analysis.

Publications

Nicholls EJ, McGowan CR, Miles S, et al. Provision of cervical screening for transmasculine patients: a review of clinical and programmatic guidelines. BMJ Sexual & Reproductive Health. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjsrh-2022-201526

R Chingono, C Kasese, S Miles, J Busza (2022). ‘I was in need of somewhere to release my hurt:’ Addressing the mental health of vulnerable adolescent mothers in Harare, Zimbabwe, through self-help groups. Global Health Action, 15 (1), 2040151 https://doi.org/10.1080/16549716.2022.2040151

S Miles, A Renedo, C Marston (2021). Reimagining authorship guidelines to promote equity in co-produced academic collaborations. Global Public Health, 1-13 https://doi.org/10.1080/17441692.2021.1971277

S Miles (2021). Let’s (not) go outside: Grindr, hybrid space, and digital queer neighborhoods. The life and afterlife of gay neighborhoods, 203-220 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66073-4_9

S Miles, J Coffin, A Ghaziani, DB Hess, A Bitterman (2021). After/lives: insights from the COVID-19 pandemic for gay neighborhoods. The life and afterlife of gay neighborhoods: renaissance and resurgence, 393-418 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66073-4_17

R Koch, S Miles (2021). Inviting the stranger in: Intimacy, digital technology and new geographies of encounter. Progress in Human Geography, 45 (6), 1379-1401 https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132520961881

A Renedo, S Miles, S Chakravorty, A Leigh, J Warner, C Marston (2021). Understanding the health-care experiences of people with sickle cell disorder transitioning from paediatric to adult services: This Sickle Cell Life, a longitudinal qualitative study. NIHR Journals Library, National Institute of Health Research (NIHR UK) https://europepmc.org/article/nbk/nbk564442

S Miles (2020). “I've never told anyone this before”: Co‐constructing intimacy in sex and sexualities research. Area, 52 (1), 73-80 https://doi.org/10.1111/area.12550

S Miles, A Renedo, C Augustine, P Ojeer, N Willis, C Marston (2020). Obstacles to use of patient expertise to improve care: a co-produced longitudinal study of the experiences of young people with sickle cell disease in non-specialist hospital settings. Critical Public Health, 30 (5), 544-554 https://doi.org/10.1080/09581596.2019.1650893

C Marston, A Renedo, S Miles (2020). Community participation is crucial in a pandemic. The Lancet, 395 (10238), 1676-1678 https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(20)31054-0

A Renedo, S Miles, C Marston (2020). Transitions to adulthood: self‐governance and disciplining in the making of patient citizens. Sociology of Health & Illness, 42 (3), 481-495 https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.13019