Miles is a Royal Society Research Professor in Optical Physics at the University of Glasgow. During his five years as Vice-Principal for Research in 2014–2019 he championed how the support of early-stage careers combined with academic creativity could drive the research excellence agenda. Miles is the institutional co-lead for research culture and co-lead of the Lab for Academic Culture. It is the university’s belief that a better culture is not an alternative to excellence but is what will allow more of us to excel.

Miles.Padgett@glasgow.ac.uk
@milespadgett
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6643-0618