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Professor Andy Miah has written extensively on the Olympics and digital media and has reported from 6 Olympic Games. He has given invited lectures in over 15 countries, including the Australian Sports Commission, the Royal Institution of Great Britain,  the World Anti-Doping Agency, and the International Olympic Academy.  In 2009, he was a Supervising Professor at the International Olympic Academy.

Andy Miah has been researching the cultural, political and media structures of the Olympic Movement since 2000, most recently examining the role of the Olympic Truce in international peace processes and, for the last 10 years, the role of the non-accredited media at the Olympic Games.

He has written for a wide range of national broadsheets and magazines, including The Washington Post, The Observer (London), The Huffington Post, The Times (London), Project Syndicate, Science and Public Affairs. He is also regularly interviewed by newspapers, radio and television and has appeared on BBC Newsnight, SkyOne, CBC The National, ABC The 7:30, among others.

Recent Talks

• Miah, A. (2010) Untold Stories of the Olympic Games, British Library, London.
• Miah, A. (2010) The Twitter Olympics, Keynote for Fresh Media Olympics conference, Vancouver 2010.
• Miah, A., Jones, J. & Adi, A. (2010) Monetizing the Olympic Web, for International Sport Business Symposium, Vancouver 2010.
• Miah, A. (2009) Northern Voice, Vancouver, Panel on the Olympics and Social Media.
• Miah, A. (2008) Supervising Professor, International Olympic Academy Postgraduate Seminar, Olympia, Greece.
• Miah, A. (2008) Biotechnology & the Olympics, Keynote, Body & Economy, London 2012 Cultural Olympiad, FACT, Liverpool, UK .
• Miah, A. (2008) Web 2.0 and the Olympics, Olympic Legacy: People, Place, Enterprise 1st Annual Colloquium 8th & 9th May 2008 University of Greenwich, London, UK
• Miah, A. ‘New Media at the Beijing 2008 Olympics’, ADM-HEA Seminar, London Metropolitan University, UK.
• Miah, A. and García, B. (2006) ‘We Are the Media’: Citizen Journalists & Non-Accredited Media’, in: Narrative, Counter Narrative and The Beijing Olympics: Hearts, Minds and the Projection of Modern China, Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
• Miah. A. and García, B. (2006) ‘Non-Accredited Media, Olympic Games and the Host City’, in Communication Forum 2006: Global Olympiad, Chinese Media, National Center for Radio and Television Studies, Communication University of China and Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania (Beijing)