Miles Oglethorpe was elected onto the Board of the International Committee for the Conservation of the Industrial Heritage (TICCIH) in Russia in 2003, and at its last congress in Santiago, Chile in 2018, became TICCIH President. He is also Head of Industrial Heritage at Historic Environment Scotland, the national body responsible for the built heritage in Scotland.
A graduate of Durham University, he completed his PhD in Geography at the University of Glasgow, subsequently moving to Strathclyde University’s Scottish Industrial Archaeology Survey Unit in 1983. In 1985 he joined the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland in Edinburgh, from where he moved to the Scottish Government heritage agency, Historic Scotland, in 2007. He has since fulfilled a number of key roles there, including Head of Education, Outreach and Publications, Deputy Chief Inspector, and Head of Policy.
Further afield, he has worked with international partners on industrial heritage, notably in Norway and Japan, and most recently led the team responsible for preparing the successful World Heritage nomination for the Forth Bridge (inscribed in 2015). In addition, he works with UNESCO advisors, the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) on World Heritage issues, and is assisting with the development of a new tourism destination in Scotland, focused on the Forth Bridges.
He has edited, authored and co-authored a number of books and papers relating to industrial heritage, and energy in particular. Of these, his book, Scottish Collieries: An Inventory of the Scottish Coal Industry in the Nationalised Era (2006) is the most significant, containing the fruits of many years’ work on Scotland’s coal industry. He also jointly founded Capturing the Energy, an initiative established by the University of Aberdeen, Oil & Gas UK, TOTAL and other partners which is emulating the work of Norwegian colleagues in attempting to ensure the achievements of the UK’s offshore oil and gas industries are properly recorded and recognised. In addition, he contributes to post-graduate programmes in the Universities of Edinburgh and Glasgow.
Sessions in which Dr Miles Oglethorpe participates
UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R510
Event
Lucie K. Morisset, Canada Research Chair in Urban Heritage (Moderator)
Dr Miles Oglethorpe, TICCIH (Presenter)
Christian Agbobli, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM) (Presenter)
UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R510
Roundtable
Dr Miles Oglethorpe, TICCIH (Moderator)
UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1420
Regular session
Torsten Meyer, Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum (DBM) (Moderator)
Dr Miles Oglethorpe, TICCIH (Moderator)
Michael Farrenkopf, Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum (DBM) (Moderator)
Dr. Barry L. Stiefel, College of Charleston (Moderator)
UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1420
Regular session
Torsten Meyer, Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum (DBM) (Moderator)
Dr Miles Oglethorpe, TICCIH (Moderator)
Michael Farrenkopf, Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum (DBM) (Moderator)
Dr. Barry L. Stiefel, College of Charleston (Moderator)
UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1420
Regular session
Torsten Meyer, Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum (DBM) (Moderator)
Dr Miles Oglethorpe, TICCIH (Moderator)
Michael Farrenkopf, Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum (DBM) (Moderator)
Dr. Barry L. Stiefel, College of Charleston (Moderator)
UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1420
Regular session
Torsten Meyer, Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum (DBM) (Moderator)
Dr Miles Oglethorpe, TICCIH (Moderator)
Michael Farrenkopf, Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum (DBM) (Moderator)
Dr. Barry L. Stiefel, College of Charleston (Moderator)
UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1420
Regular session
Torsten Meyer, Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum (DBM) (Moderator)
Dr Miles Oglethorpe, TICCIH (Moderator)
Michael Farrenkopf, Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum (DBM) (Moderator)
Dr. Barry L. Stiefel, College of Charleston (Moderator)
UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-1420
Paper
Dr Miles Oglethorpe, TICCIH (Speaker)
UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R515
Roundtable
James Douet, patrimoni-industrial.com (Moderator)
James Gunn, Dounreay Site Restoration Ltd (Panelist)
Dr Miles Oglethorpe, TICCIH (Panelist)
Elisa Rubalcava, GoA - Historic Resources Management Branch (Panelist)
UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R510
Paper
Dr Miles Oglethorpe, TICCIH (Presenter)
Dag Avango, Luleå University of Technology (Moderator)
Sessions in which Dr Miles Oglethorpe attends
UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS Registration table (meeting point)
Tour
Jean-Yves Bourdages (Speaker)
UQAM, Cœur des sciences - Agora Hydro-Québec
Cocktail
Patrick Dieudonné, Université de Bretagne occidentale, Institut de Géoarchitecture, France (Other Participant)
Lucie K. Morisset, Canada Research Chair in Urban Heritage (Moderator)
UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R510
Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée
Gérard Beaudet (Keynote speaker)
UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R510
Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée
Steven High, Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling (Speaker)
UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R510
Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée
Prof. Laurajane Smith, Australian National University (Speaker)
UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R910 (access from the metro floor)
Workshop
Daniel Trepal, Michigan Technological University (Moderator)
Don Lafreniere, Michigan Technological University (Moderator)
Sarah F Scarlett, Michigan Technological University | Industrial Heritage and Archaeology Program (Moderator)
Timothy Scarlett, Michigan Technological University (Moderator)
UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R510
Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée
Stefan Berger (Speaker)
Écomusée du fier monde - Piscine
Cocktail
UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R510
Keynote with simultaneous translation / Conférence avec traduction simultanée
Cathy Stanton, Tufts University (Speaker)
Usine C - Hall
Repas