Dr. Gloria Miller holds the degrees of B.Sc. and M.Sc. in experimental psychology, and MBA. and PhD in Management from the University of Calgary. Her doctoral research was on the experience of women professionals in the Alberta oil and gas industry. It was an interpretive cultural analysis of the experiences of women, generally engineers and geologists, who held positions ranging from well site geologist to multinational vice president, and who had tenures between seven or eight to almost 30 years in the industry.

Gloria's non-academic experience is broad and varied, and includes a stint of approximately 15 years as a psychologist, clinical treatment director, and manager in various non-profit and public sector organizations. She spent a decade setting up, and running, a service that provided on-site consulting advice to educators of students with special needs by educational and para-medical specialists in Southern Alberta. The program required considerable coordination and negotiation among various involved levels of government as well as local boards of education and school principals. During the latter 5 years in this role, she obtained a Master of Business Administration degree at the University of Calgary as a part-time student, a wonderful and demanding learning experience she highly recommends to all.

In 1993, Gloria returned to the full-time student role as a doctoral student in the Faculty of Management at the University of Calgary. While working on her PhD, she taught part-time at Mount Royal College in Calgary, at the University of Calgary, and at Red Deer College. Upon completion of her PhD in May 1998, she taught at Saint Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia. In the summer of 1999, Gloria took a job in the Faculty of Administration at the University of Regina.

For Gloria, this is a return to Regina, since she spent her teen years there and promptly migrated to Calgary upon high school completion, a practice that remains the norm. Gloria's areas of interest in teaching include organizational theory and behavior, organization development and change, and diversity issues in organizations. In terms of research interests, gender and diversity issues in organizations are paramount. Gloria has published academic articles in Cultures and Society, Women in Management Review, Gender, Work & Organization and has contributed to journals used by management practitioners and advocates for change for women in organizations such as the 25th Anniversary Edition of Feminist Voices, and Oilweek on women in the oil industry.