An expatriot United States citizen living in Northern Ireland, Robert Miller studied at Duke University and the University of Florida and completed his Ph.D. at Queen’s University, Belfast. He is now partially retired but until recently was Deputy Director of the ARK Project, a social science research infrastructure and dissemination initiative of staff at the two Northern Irish universities. Much of his career has focused on questions of social mobilty, broadly conceived; beginning with quantitative academic survey work and continuing with applications of mobility techniques to the investigation of religious discrimination and gender & political involvement in Northern Ireland. He has contributed to the policy debate surrounding equal opportunity issues in Northern Ireland –most notably with a highly controversial study of religious discrimination in the Northern Irish Civil Service that led directly to the reform of that body. He was on the Steering and Executive Committees that created the European Sociological Association (ESA) and served a term as its General Secretary as well as subsequently being a Chair of the ESA Research Network ‘Biographical Perspectives on European Societies’. He moved to qualitative biographical methods in mid-career and recently finished directing EUROIDENTITIES, a 7th Framework investigation of European identity. He presently is developing an interest in biographical identity and other aspects of virtual reality cyberenvironments.