Andrew Dixon

• Human Rights
• Restorative Justice
• Environmental Justice

• 1999-02 Post Graduate Certificate in Education. UCE
• 1984-86 MSc Urban and Regional Planning Studies: Birkbeck College - University of London
• 1982-83 Postgraduate Diploma Housing Administration: Sheffield City Polytechnic
• 1978-81 BA (Single Hons) Politics: University of Newcastle upon Tyne.

• (Lapsed) Corporate Member of the Chartered Institute of Housing

Andrew teaches on the following modules:

• SOC3003 Sociology: The Foundations
• SOC5058 Sociological Placement
• PPY5001 Professional Practice Year

Recent topics taught:

• Theories of Rights
• Globalisation
• People and Society
• Restorative Justice

Experience of having written and delivered teaching materials for BSc (Hons) Health Studies, BA (Hons) Housing, and BA (Hons) Professional Housing Studies with a focus on housing provision, community-practice/development, neighbourhoods and wellbeing.

Current areas of interest centre on: human rights and housing; environmental justice and city-society interconnections.

• Past PhD supervision as second supervisor and Internal assessor: circa 1996 – 2000. Topics: housing finance – UK/Pakistan: Homelessness (Ethiopia) Informal housing settlements (Kenya)

• Dixon A (2014) Ethnicity and the Share of Social Housing for Older People in the Metropolitan West Midlands. Sociolgija. Minitis ir veiksmas 2014/1 (34)
• Dixon A (2008) Social housing for older people: what do people in later life from minority ethnic communities get, know and want? Some findings from the metropolitan West Midlands. Workshop paper presented at the European Network for Housing Research Conference, Dublin July 2008.
• Dixon A (2005) Prospects for Prescott’s five-year plan. Property People. Issue 462. p6
• Bhatti, M. and Dixon, A. (2003) Introduction [Special Focus on Housing, Environment and Sustainability] Housing Studies. 18. 4. pp 501-503.
• Dixon, A. and Yarnell, A. (2001) Housing Conditions, Housing Renewal and Environmental Sustainability: A Focus on Privately Owned Housing in the West Midlands. Workshop paper (part-written) presented to Housing Studies Association Spring Conference 2001, on ‘Housing, Environment and Sustainability’ at the University of York.
• Chapman D, Dickins I, Dixon A, Larkham P and Pratt D (2001) Movement Corridors, Urban Form and Urban Design. Urban Design Quarterly. 86. pp 36-37.
• Dixon A, Yarnell A and Daniel, A. (2001) Taking Stock. Housing Conditions in the West Midlands Region. The Housing Corporation/UCE.
• Turkington R and Dixon A (1997) Thinking Ahead, Housing Care and the Future for Black Elders. Nehemiah Housing Association, School of Housing, UCE, Birmingham.
• Middleton A and Dixon A (1996) Housing Need and Provision: The West Midlands., in Breheny M, Hall P, eds. The People – Where Will They Go? National Report of the TCPA Regional Enquiry into Housing Need and Provision in England. TCPA.
• Middleton, A. and Dixon, A. (1996) Housing Need and Provision: The West Midlands. Paper presented to the Town and Country Planning Association ‘Regional Inquiry into Housing Need and Provision in England’, Birmingham.
• Dixon, A. (1996) Green Homes for New Households and the Role of Self-Build Housing. Workshop paper presented to the Sustainability Research Group conference on ‘Cities, People and Sustainability’ at UCE Birmingham.
• Dixon A, (1996) Where’s the Fairness in the British Government’s Strategy on Sustainable Development: A brief comment., in Heron G (ed) Struggling with Sustainability, West Midlands New Economic Foundation.
• Dixon A, (1994) Where’s the Fairness in the Government’s Strategy for Sustainable Development? ‘Struggling with Sustainability’ Conference Paper, University of Staffordshire.
• Dixon A and Turkington R (1992) Sheltered Housing in the Metropolitan West Midlands: The Experience of Caribbean and African Elders. Nehemiah Housing Association/School of Housing, UCE.
• Walker B, Marsh A, Dixon A (1991) Housing Finance and Subsidy in Birmingham. Joseph Rowntree Foundation.

• A background in voluntary/public sector committee work. (St Basil’s Housing Association, Heath Town Estate Management Board, Neighbourhood Justice Scrutiny Panel – West Midland Police.)
• Experience as an external examiner – Housing Studies, Anglia Ruskin University.
• A contributor to the QAA Housing Studies subject benchmark statement.
• Formerly the Subject Lead in Housing Studies at UCE.
• Experience as a distance - learning tutor. (Chartered Institute of Housing/De Montfort University, Leicester)