Melanie Miller is a teacher, maker, curator, writer and editor in the Textiles/Embroidery field. She also participates in and organises conferences, and manages educational projects with schools.

Melanie has a degree in History from the London School of Economics, a degree in Textiles/Fashion from Manchester Polytechnic, and a PhD from Manchester Metropolitan University.

Melanie worked as an editor at Dorling Kindersley Book Publishing Company, and taught for over twenty years at Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU)/Manchester School of Art. She was the route leader for the MA Textiles course for eight years.

​For the last few years Melanie has been working with educational charities including The Ideas Foundation, the Comino Foundation and the Paul Hamlyn Foundation on residency projects in schools with designers, poets and musicians.

Research interests include exploring the combination of traditional and digital technologies; and issues around gender stereotyping, globalisation and branding. Work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including Art of the Stitch 2006; Global intrigue II 4th Riga International Textile and Fibre art triennial 2010; The Power of Copying, Xuzhou Museum of Art, China 2010; and The Function of Folk, Krakow Ethnographic Museum 2012.

Melanie has extensive external examining and research supervision experience.

During 2018 Melanie worked with Mostyn Art Gallery/CALL (Culture Action Llandudno) to create a banner for the Artichoke Processions project, culminating in a mass participation event in Cardiff on 10th June. https://www.processions.co.uk