Stephen Miller previously held a post at the Austrian Academy of Sciences and taught at the University of Vienna. He is a past student at the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies at the University of Leeds, UK, having obtained his MA there. Later, he worked on the Tape-Recorded Survey of Yorkshire Speech at the College of Ripon and York St John, and he has also conducted ethnographic fieldwork on the Isle of Man. His research interests include the folklore and folk song of the Isle of Man, the Manx Language Revival, the Scottish folklorists the Rev. Walter Gregor and William George Black, and the historiography of the Folk-Lore Society. This has resulted in over 30 peer-reviewed articles on these topics, besides numerous other publications as part of public engagement and outreach on folklore topics. In 2020, he won the Reih Bleeaney Vanannan for lifetime achievement in Manx Studies.