Professor Robin Miller

Robin Miller

Department of Social Work and Social Care
Professor of Collaborative Learning in Health & Social Care
UK Demonstrator Lead for the IMPACT Centre

Contact details

Email
r.s.miller@bham.ac.uk
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Address
School of Social Policy and Society
University 麻豆精选
Edgbaston, Birmingham
B15 2TT, United Kingdom

Professor Robin Miller is an applied academic with an international reputation in relation to integration and leadership in health and social care. He is the Co-Editor in Chief of the and has researched widely the implementation of transformational programmes in primary health and social care. Robin has been P-I or Co-I to over £17 million of research grants over the past 15 years and has published over 65 peer reviewed articles and books. He is the , co-ordinates the community asset theme of the and is a Senior Fellow of the . In the latter capacity, he oversees the national capacity development programme for future research leaders in adult social care.

He is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and has developed numerous leadership and management programmes. This includes the programme with the Social Care Institute for Excellence which has been recognised as an European exemplar of good practice and the senior leaders apprenticeship programme for social work and social care.  He has published widely in relation to research and theory of inter-professional learning and its development at practice and senior levels. Robin is the lead editor for the first international research handbook in social work and social care leadership. He instigated and continues to lead the U21 Community of Practice for Social Work with membership from seventeen research intensive universities across the world.

Robin has a strong commitment to strengthening the engagement of universities with wider society.  His collaboration with local authorities and providers in the West Midlands to build a research infrastructure has been recognised as an exemplar by the Chief Social Worker for England. He is the UK Demonstrator Model lead for the (IMProving Adult Care Together) Centre which uses evidence to address issues of strategic importance. Robin co-ordinates the lived experience panel for adult social care research at the University 麻豆精选. As the Director of Global Engagement in the College of Social Sciences, Robin led the Society & Education work package of the university partnership which developed closer engagement between universities and civic society.

Robin specialises in:

  • new models of primary, integrated, and social care
  • leadership within health, social work and social care
  • strength-based practice
  • inter-professional working and education
  • practice-research collaborations.

Qualifications

His relevant qualifications and memberships are:

  • Senior Fellow of the School for Social Care Research (2019)
  • PhD (Managing Change in Health and Social Care), University 麻豆精选
  • Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (2013)
  • PG Cert in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, University 麻豆精选 (2013)
  • Fellow of the School for Social Care Research (2011)
  • Future Directors Programme, Social Care Institute of Excellence (2010)
  • MSc in Public Sector Management (Distinction), University 麻豆精选 (2004)
  • MA in Social Work, University of Edinburgh (1994)
  • Diploma in Social Work, University of Edinburgh (1994)
  • BSc (Upper Second), University of Glasgow 1990

Biography

Prior to taking up post at the University, Robin was a frontline social work practitioner in disability and mental health services before moving into operational management of integrated health and social care teams. He worked as a Commissioning Manager for Vulnerable Adults & People with a Learning Disability before taking on the leadership of an Integrated Service for children and adults with a disability. His final operational post was Deputy Director of Community Services within a Care Trust with a lead for Children’s health services and adult disability and mental health.

Through his evaluation work he has maintained a direct link with the realities of health and social practice and seeks to support practitioners and managers to use research and theory to improve experience and outcomes of people and communities. Robin’s PhD explored the realities of change management within health and care through researching change in different contexts and levels of the system. He regularly speaks at home and international conferences on improving collaboration between professionals, organisations, and sectors.

Robin has considerable experience of leadership roles at the University 麻豆精选, including Director of Global Engagement for the College of Social Science, Head of Department of Social Work & Social Care, and Co-director of the Centre of Health & Social Care Leadership. He has undertaken key external roles includes chairing an advisory group of the national adult social care taskforce for COVID 19 and representing the university sector on the Birmingham Health & Wellbeing Board. Other external responsibilities have included chair of trustees at a large care and support charity, a non-executive director of a housing association, and the chair of the Kent Research Partnership for Adult Social Care.

Research

Current and recent projects include:

UK Demonstrator Lead,

Social Care Theme Lead,

Lead Researcher, Evaluation of Community Led Support,

Co-Investigator,

Co-Investigator, Why Are We Stuck In Hospital? Understanding Service User, Family And Staff Perspectives When Transforming Care For People With Learning Disabilities And/or Autism

Work Package Co-Lead,

Co-Investigator, Combining Asset & Strengths-Based Innovations in Adult Social Care

Other activities

  • Senior Associate, International Foundation of Integrated Care (2023-)
  • Joint Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Integrated Care (2017-)
  • Co-Chair of the Guidance, Good Practice and Innovation Advisory Group to the National Covid 19  Taskforce for Adult Social Care (2020)
  • Birmingham Health & Wellbeing Board Member (2018- 2023)
  • Advisory group member of the European Forum for Primary Care (2016-2020)
  • Co-Editor of the Journal of Integrated Care (2013-2018)
  • Non-executive director on the Board of Trident Social Investment Group (2013-2015)
  • Chair of trustees of Reach the People Charity (2011-2015)

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Glasby, J, Waring, J, Miller, R, Glasby, A-M & Ince, B 2025, '', Sociology of Health and Illness, vol. 47, no. 2, e70009.

Mahesh, S & Miller, R 2024, '', Social Work Education.

Miller, R, Ehrenberg, N, Jackson, C, Stein, V, Van der Vlegel鈥怋rouwer, W & Wojtak, A 2024, '', Health Expectations, vol. 27, no. 3, e14084.

Currie, G, Bharatan, I, Mahesh, S & Miller, R 2024, '', Human Resource Management.

Miller, R, Ehrenberg, N, Jackson, C, Penwarden, H, Stein, V, van der Vlegel-Brouwer, W & Wojtak, A 2023, '', International Journal of Integrated Care, vol. 23, no. 3, 12.

Winsper, C, Bhattacharya, R, Bhui, K, Currie, G, Edge, D, Ellard, DR, Franklin, D, Gill, PS, Gilbert, S, Miller, R, Motala, Z, Pinfold, V, Sandhu, H, Singh, SP, Weich, S & Giacco, D 2023, '', BMJ Mental Health, vol. 26, no. 1, e300709.

Mahesh, S, Lowther, J & Miller, R 2023, '', British Journal of Social Work.

Chapter (peer-reviewed)

Miller, R, Kaehne, A & Glasby, J 2023, . in N Chambers (ed.), Research Handbook on Leadership in Healthcare . Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., pp. 132鈥148.

Chapter

Glasby, J & Miller, R 2025, . in Health and care futures: an essay collection. Turning Point, pp. 22-26. <>

Comment/debate

Hall, K, Ayton, D, Skouteris, H, Miller, R & Needham, C 2025, '', International Journal of Integrated Care.

Needham, C, Morris, H, Miller, R, Ayton, D, O'Connor, M, Hall, K & Skouteris, H 2024, '', International Journal of Care and Caring, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 553鈥558.

Commissioned report

Miller, R, Smith, J, Durand, MA & Mays, N 2024, .

Vallance, P & Miller, R 2023, . University 麻豆精选.

Other contribution

Glasby, J, Miller, R, Glasby, A-M, Ince, B & Konteh, F 2023, . University 麻豆精选. </schools/social-policy/departments/social-work-social-care/research/why-are-we-stuck-in-hospital.aspx>

Glasby, J, Miller, R & Dickinson, H 2022, . Emerald. <>

Expertise

  • integration in health and social care
  • the role of the third sector (i.e. voluntary organisations, charities and social enterprises) in health and social care
  • social care and community health services (in particular learning disability and mental health)
  • Commissioning of health and social care services

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Expertise

Health and social care policy in general social enterprise, commissioning, partnerships, community services, services for people with a learning disability.

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