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Professor Paul Miller, PhD

Professor Paul Miller, PhD, is Professor of Educational Leadership & Social Justice and President - Commonwealth Council for Educational Administration & Management. He is the first black person to be appointed a professor of educational leadership at a UK university, and he is currently the only black Head of School of Education in the country. He has been a secondary school teacher in Jamaica and in London, and he has written extensively on race discrimination among overseas trained teachers and teachers of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) heritage in England.
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Professor of Educational Leadership & Social Justice and President, Commonwealth Council for Educational Administration & Management

Professor Paul Miller, PhD, is Professor of Educational Leadership & Social Justice and President - Commonwealth Council for Educational Administration & Management. He is the first black person to be appointed a professor of educational leadership at a UK university, and he is currently the only black Head of School of Education in the country. He has been a secondary school teacher in Jamaica and in London, and he has written extensively on race discrimination among overseas trained teachers and teachers of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) heritage in England.

His research on teacher progression/ discrimination have been listed in UNESCO’s Etico database, and in 2017, the UK Cabinet Office acknowledged that it was using his work in [anti-racist]  policy development. Paul is an invited member of the Department for Education's (DfE) Diversity in Teaching Roundtable, and President of the Commonwealth Council for Educational Administration & Management (CCEAM). He is Fellow of the Chartered College of Teaching; Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences; and Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.