Miles Thomas completed his Post Graduate Certificate in Education at the University of Bath and taught in the UK and Spain. He has a Masters in Educational Psychology and a Doctorate in Child and Educational Psychology from UEL. He is an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. He is employed in local government as a Registered Educational Psychologist. He is a Senior Practitioner and retains responsibility for delivering psychological services to a small patch of schools.

Miles is an Academic and Professional Tutor on the Doctorate in Child and Educational Psychology (initial training). He is Head of Stage 2 of the programme and Module leader for Consultation and Intervention. He works at the Stratford campus on Mondays,Thursdays and Fridays.

Miles has particular interest in the application of Solution Focused approaches and Goal Attainment Scaling. He has supervised Masters and Doctoral level Research in areas such as Nurture Groups and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy with Children. He examines Doctoral Vivas at UEL and is also an External Examiner for Bristol University Doctorate in Educational Psychology.

Miles is an invited lecturer and supervisor for other programmes at UEL including the Doctorate in Counselling Psychology and Masters in Applied Positive Psychology. He is also invited to speak at other Universities and at conferences in the UK and abroad.

Miles is an Associate Editor of Psychologist Magazine and a member of the Psychologist Policy Committee. He reviews books and articles for a range of other journals and magazines. He runs a website on psychology and wine, www.winepsych.com, which has a database of research in the area. He also maintains a blog and is currently writing a book, The psychology of wine: how we think about the wine we drink, for Wiley Blackwell’s new “Psychology of…” series. He is published in the UK and abroad and is regularly invited to speak on this topic.

• Doctorate in Child and Educational Psychology (initial training)

• Module Leader for Consultation and Intervention