Andrew Dixon
Andrew Dixon has worked as a social-housing practitioner and as an academic researcher. Andrew has past course development and management experience in the fields of Housing Studies and Sociology. Andrew has been course director with responsibility for the undergraduate Sociology degrees at BCU. Recent areas of teaching include human rights; restorative justice; globalization; state, class and society. Andrew presently runs the optional placement modules for Sociology undergraduates.
Research interests have centred on housing in later life and ethnicity; the incidence/distribution of housing in poor condition; housing provision, demography and environmental change. Andrew has participated in past research funded by the European Union and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. Andrew is currently working as a researcher on an EU Horizon project focused on young people and pathways from education into employment.
Andrew has worked for the London Boroughs of Tower Hamlets and Wandsworth, and at The Centre for Urban and Regional Studies, University of Birmingham.