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Jeremy Dixon  BA (Hons) MSW DSW

Dr Jeremy Dixon

BA (Hons) MSW DSW

Academic

School of Social Sciences

Email
DixonJ7@cardiff.ac.uk
Telephone
+44 29 2251 4618
Campuses
sbarc|spark, Room 3.27, Maindy Road, Cathays, Cardiff, CF24 4HQ
Users
Available for postgraduate supervision

Overview

I am a Reader in Social Work at the Centre for Adult Social Care Research (CARE).  I have several research interests.  These include:

  • How professionals understand and manage risk and uncertainty 
  • Adult safeguarding
  • How professionals interpret mental health law
  • The views of people living with mental health problems and unpaid carers on mental health law and mental health services

 

Publication

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Biography

I have been employed as a Reader in the Centre for Adult Social Care since April 2024. 

Prior to joining Cardiff University, I worked at the University of Bath as a lecturer, senior lecturer and then reader in social work between 2012-2024.  Before this, I was employed as a senior lecturer in social work at the University of the West of England from 2009-2012.  

I qualified as a social worker in 1998 and worked in a wide variety of teams.  This included work in mental health assessment teams, community mental health teams, a mental health medium secure unit, hospital social work teams as well as drug and alcohol teams.  During my period as a social worker, I was also employed as an Approved Mental Health Professional and as a senior practitioner in a forensic mental health unit.  

Prior to qualifying as a social worker, I was employed as a care worker in an alcohol detoxification centre and as a sabbatical officer for St. John's College Students' Union.  

Professional memberships

I am registered as a social worker with Social Work England.  

Academic positions

  • Reader in Social Work, University of Bath, March 2024.
  • Senior Lecturer in Social Work at the University of Bath, May 2019 - February 2024.
  • Lecturer in Social Work at the University of Bath, September 2012 - April 2019.
  • Senior Lecturer in Social Work at the University of the West of England, May 2009 - August 2012.  

Committees and reviewing

  • President of the International Sociological Association's Research Committee for the Sociology of Mental Health and Illness (from 2023 - present). 

  • Vice-chair of the Health Research Authority's Social Care Ethics Committee (from 2022 - present) 

  • Vice President of the International Sociological Association's Research Committee for the Sociology of Mental Health and Illness (from 2018 - 2023). 

  • Editorial Board Member of Health, Risk & Society (from 2018 - present) 

  • Secretary of the European Sociological Association's Research Committee on the Sociology of Risk and Uncertainty (2017-present) 

  • Treasurer of the International Sociological Association's Research Committee for the Sociology of Mental Health and Illness (2014 – 2018). 

 

Supervisions

I am interested in supervising work focussed on:

  • Adult social work
  • Adult safeguarding
  • Mental health social work

Past projects

I have supervised the following projects to completion: 

  • Maike Klein, 'Living through Relapse: Recovery Narratives of Young Adults in the U.K. who have suffered from Multiple Relapses from Substance Misuse' - ESRC 1 + 3 (first supervisor with Dr Catherine Butler).  

  • Rosie Buckland, ‘Experiences of Mental Health Act assessments: a critical discourse analysis' - URSA Funded Phd Studentship (first supervisor with Dr Sarah Moore).  

  • Debbie Martin ‘Community Treatment Orders: What do they tell us about the exercise of power over the psychiatric patients in modern service provision?' - ESRC 1 + 3 (second supervisor with Professor Ian Butler).   

  • Natalie Booth ‘Women crime and society: A family affair?' (second supervisor with Professor Tess Ridge) – ESRC 1 + 3.  

  • Renske Visser ‘Ageing in Place: The dwelling and the neighbourhood' (second supervisor with Dr Kate Woodthorpe) – ESRC 1 + 3.  

  • Michelle James 'Being Human: A Human-Centred Investigation into the Impact of Social Protection on the Wellbeing of United Kingdom Asylum Seekers' (second supervisor with Professor Rachel Forrester-Jones) - ESRC 1 + 3 

Research themes

Specialisms

  • Social work
  • Social care
  • Mental Health
  • Risk policy
  • Safeguarding