Lilian Miles

Lilian Miles is Professor of Sustainability and Social Enterprise at the University of Westminster. Her research interests include gender, migration, health and work. She received competitive external grant money (Newton Fund Impact Scheme, 2020-22) to implement interventions in factories in Malaysia to support the reproductive health of their factory women migrant workers. She co-authored a Strategy Paper on preventing GBV against women migrant workers in Malaysia (2019), which was circulated to the government to inform the drafting of its twelfth National Development Plan. She led a research team to investigate how resettlement planning for Syrian refugees in London can be improved (2022). She was co-director of a team commissioned by the UK Home Office (2022) to investigate asylum seeker decision-making in journeys to the UK. Lilian is part of a programme of research exploring how reproductive health education can be delivered to Rohingya refugee adolescents via social media in Malaysia (2023). Much of her work is published in highly regarded international Journals. Lilian has developed extensive networks of researchers, advocacy organisations, health care providers and employer associations.