James Miller

James Miller has been Deputy Vice Chancellor (DVC) of Glasgow Caledonian University since August 2015.

Professor Miller is currently responsible for the 3 schools based at the Glasgow Campus; The GCU London Campus as well as the professional services portfolios of Strategy, Planning, and Business Intelligence; Internationalisation, Recruitment, and Admissions; The Glasgow Caledonian University Institute of University to Business Education. James is also a Trustee and Board Secretary to the Glasgow Caledonian New York College.

Professor Miller began his career in 1986 as a Clinical Nurse in Edinburgh after graduating from North Lothian College of Nursing and Midwifery. He became Quality Facilitator and Deputy Director of Nursing for West Lothian Healthcare NHS Trust in 1992 and remained there until 2001, by which time he had become Divisional General Manager. He was Divisional General Manager of South Glasgow University Hospitals NHS Trust from 2001 to 2005, when he became Chief Executive of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow. He took up the post of Director of the Open University in Scotland in August 2010.

Professor Miller gained an MBA from Napier University in 1998 and a PhD from Edinburgh University in 2004. James is an Alumnus of Harvard University’s Institute of Education Management. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, a member of the Institute of Directors, and has been a Visiting Lecturer at four Scottish universities, teaching on undergraduate and Masters programmes in nursing, healthcare management and clinical leadership. He has published in peer-reviewed national and international journals on a range of clinical and management issues in healthcare and is a regular reviewer for a number of journals.

Professor Miller is a member of the British Council’s Digital Advisory Board and has recently agreed to become a member of the International Advisory Board for the Amity University Group in India.

Professor Miller can be contacted at GCU via his email.