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Dr Jeremy Dixon
BA (Hons) MSW DSW
- Available for postgraduate supervision
Teams and roles for Jeremy Dixon
Academic
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
- End of life care
Publication
2025
- Dixon, J., Bark, H., Fang, C., Laing, J. and Patsios, D. 2025. The use of mental capacity and mental health laws in the care of people living with dementia in residential and hospital settings: A systematic review of the literature. Dementia: The International Journal of Social Research and Practice (10.1177/14713012251367810)
- Wilson, R. et al. 2025. Exploring risk factors for COVID-19 mortality and infection in care homes in the west of England: A mixed-methods study. Journal of Health Services Research & Policy (10.1177/13558196251344174)
- Woodthorpe, K. and Dixon, J. 2025. Editorial: Innovation at the end of life. Mortality 30(2), pp. 325-332. (10.1080/13576275.2025.2497015)
- Heyes, K. et al. 2025. A co-produced review of the experiences of Black male detention under mental health legislation: Challenging discrimination in psychiatry using The Silences Framework. PLOS Mental Health 2(4), article number: e0000041. (10.1371/journal.pmen.0000041)
- Teggi, D., Dixon, J. and Dickson, M. 2025. Demographic, health, and social predictors of place of death in England, 2004-2013: Identifying barriers to dying in the community. Journal of Aging and Social Policy (10.1080/08959420.2025.2482298)
- Penhale, B. and Dixon, J. 2025. Editorial: The journal of adult protection. The Journal of Adult Protection: Evidence-based practice in relation to safeguarding adults 27(2), pp. 69-71. (10.1108/JAP-03-2025-099)
- Dixon, J. and Eastman, M. 2025. An Interview with Mervyn Eastman: Campaigning for the recognition of older adult abuse in the 1980s and beyond. The Journal of Adult Protection: Evidence-based practice in relation to safeguarding adults 27(2), pp. 108-113. (10.1108/JAP-01-2025-0003)
2024
- Forrester-Jones, R., Dixon, J. and Jaynes, B. 2024. Exploring romantic need as part of mental health social care practice. Disability and Society 39(10), pp. 2611-2633. (10.1080/09687599.2023.2222900)
- Klein, M., Dixon, J., Butler, C. and Best, D. 2024. “It’s almost as if I’ve relapsed”: An interpretative phenomenological analysis of addiction therapists’ experiences with supporting their clients through repeated relapse. Journal of Drug Issues (10.1177/00220426241277775)
- Laing, J., Dixon, J. and Stone, K. 2024. 'I was going into it blind': Nearest relatives, legal literacy, and the Mental Health Act 1983. International Journal of Law and Psychiatry 94, article number: 101981. (10.1016/j.ijlp.2024.101981)
2023
- Dixon, J. 2023. Adult safeguarding observed. How social workers assess and manage risk and uncertainty. Bristol: Policy Press. (10.51952/9781447357315)
- Bark, H., Dixon, J. and Laing, J. 2023. The professional identity of social workers in mental health services: a scoping review. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 20(11), article number: 5947. (10.3390/ijerph20115947)
- Richter, D. and Dixon, J. 2023. Models of mental health problems: a quasi-systematic review of theoretical approaches. Journal of Mental Health 32(2), pp. 396-406. (10.1080/09638237.2021.2022638)
- Crath, R., Dixon, J. and Warner, J. 2023. Risk at the boundaries of social work: an editorial. Health, Risk & Society 25(1-2), pp. 1-8. (10.1080/13698575.2023.2172142)
2022
- Dixon, J., Stone, K. and Laing, J. 2022. Beyond the call of duty: a qualitative study into the experiences of family members acting as a nearest relative in Mental Health Act assessments. The British Journal of Social Work 52(7), pp. 3783-3801. (10.1093/bjsw/bcab258)
- Klein, M., Dixon, J. and Butler, C. 2022. Multiple relapses into opiate and crack misuse among people in recovery: an interpretative phenomenological analysis. Journal of Addictions and Offender Counseling 43(2), pp. 97-110. (10.1002/jaoc.12106)
- Dixon, J., Donnelly, S., Campbell, J. and Laing, J. 2022. Safeguarding people living with dementia: how social workers can use supported decision-making strategies to support the human rights of individuals during adult safeguarding enquiries. The British Journal of Social Work 52(3), pp. 1307-1324. (10.1093/bjsw/bcab119)
2020
- Klein, M. and Dixon, J. 2020. Problematising ‘recovery’ in drug policy within Great Britain: a comparative policy analysis between England, Wales and Scotland. Journal of Drug Policy Analysis 13(1) (10.1515/jdpa-2020-0001)
- Brown, C. and Dixon, J. 2020. 'Push on through': children's perspectives on the narratives of resilience in schools identified for intensive mental health promotion. British Educational Research Journal 46(2), pp. 379-398. (10.1002/berj.3583)
- Dixon, J., Laing, J. and Valentine, C. 2020. A human rights approach to advocacy for people with dementia: a review of current provision in England and Wales. Dementia: The International Journal of Social Research and Practice 19(2), pp. 221-236. (10.1177/1471301218770478)
- Dixon, J., Wilkinson-Tough, M., Laing, J. and Stone, K. 2020. Treading a tightrope: professional perspectives on balancing the rights of patient's and relative's under the Mental Health Act in England. Health and Social Care in the Community 28(1), pp. 300-308. (10.1111/hsc.12864)
2019
- Jones, K., Birchley, G., Huxtable, R., Clare, L., Walter, T. and Dixon, J. 2019. End of life care: a scoping review of experiences of advanced care planning for people with dementia. Dementia: The International Journal of Social Research and Practice 18(3), pp. 825-845. (10.1177/1471301216676121)
2018
- Dixon, J. and Richter, D. 2018. Contemporary public perceptions of psychiatry: some problems for mental health professions. Social Theory & Health 16, pp. 326–341. (10.1057/s41285-017-0059-9)
- Dixon, J., Lei, J., Huang, W., Sin, J. and Smith, G. 2018. The views of mental health manager towards the use of a family work model for psychosis in Guangzhou, China. Community Mental Health Journal 54, pp. 1057–1063. (10.1007/s10597-018-0247-7)
- Dixon, J. 2018. Narratives of illness and offending: mentally disordered offenders' views on their offending. Sociology of Health & Illness 40(6), pp. 1053-1068. (10.1111/1467-9566.12740)
- Laing, J., Dixon, J., Wilkinson-Tough, M. and Stone, K. 2018. The nearest relative in the Mental Health Act 2007: still an illusionary and inconsistent safeguard?. Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law 40(1), pp. 37-56. (10.1080/09649069.2018.1414366)
2016
- Birchley, G., Jones, K., Huxtable, R., Dixon, J., Kitzinger, J. and Clare, L. 2016. Dying well with reduced agency: a scoping review and thematic synthesis of the decision-making process in dementia, traumatic brain injury and frailty. BMC Medical Ethics 17, pp. 1-15., article number: 46. (10.1186/s12910-016-0129-x)
- Dixon, J. and Robb, M. 2016. Working with women with a learning disability experiencing domestic abuse: how social workers can negotiate competing definitions of risk. The British Journal of Social Work 46(3), pp. 773–788. (10.1093/bjsw/bcu149)
2015
- Dixon, J. 2015. Treatment, deterrence or labelling: mentally disordered offenders' perspectives on social control. Sociology of Health & Illness 37, pp. 1299-1313. (10.1111/1467-9566.12313)
- Dixon, J. 2015. Balancing risk and recovery in mental health: An analysis of the way in which policy objectives around risk and recovery affect professional practice in England. In: Chamberlain, J. M. ed. Medicine, Risk, Discourse and Power. Routledge
2013
- Dixon, J. 2013. Effective strategies for communication? Student views of a communication skills course eleven years on. The British Journal of Social Work 43(6), pp. 1190-1205. (10.1093/bjsw/bcs040)
2012
- Dixon, J. 2012. Mentally disordered offenders' views of 'their' risk assessment and management plans: Perceptions of health risks. Health, Risk and Society 14(7-8), pp. 667-680. (10.1080/13698575.2012.720965)
2010
- Dixon, J. 2010. Social supervision, ethics and risk: an evaluation of how ethical frameworks might be applied within the social supervision process. The British Journal of Social Work 40(8), pp. 2398–2413. (10.1093/bjsw/bcq076)
Articles
- Dixon, J., Bark, H., Fang, C., Laing, J. and Patsios, D. 2025. The use of mental capacity and mental health laws in the care of people living with dementia in residential and hospital settings: A systematic review of the literature. Dementia: The International Journal of Social Research and Practice (10.1177/14713012251367810)
- Wilson, R. et al. 2025. Exploring risk factors for COVID-19 mortality and infection in care homes in the west of England: A mixed-methods study. Journal of Health Services Research & Policy (10.1177/13558196251344174)
- Woodthorpe, K. and Dixon, J. 2025. Editorial: Innovation at the end of life. Mortality 30(2), pp. 325-332. (10.1080/13576275.2025.2497015)
- Heyes, K. et al. 2025. A co-produced review of the experiences of Black male detention under mental health legislation: Challenging discrimination in psychiatry using The Silences Framework. PLOS Mental Health 2(4), article number: e0000041. (10.1371/journal.pmen.0000041)
- Teggi, D., Dixon, J. and Dickson, M. 2025. Demographic, health, and social predictors of place of death in England, 2004-2013: Identifying barriers to dying in the community. Journal of Aging and Social Policy (10.1080/08959420.2025.2482298)
- Penhale, B. and Dixon, J. 2025. Editorial: The journal of adult protection. The Journal of Adult Protection: Evidence-based practice in relation to safeguarding adults 27(2), pp. 69-71. (10.1108/JAP-03-2025-099)
- Dixon, J. and Eastman, M. 2025. An Interview with Mervyn Eastman: Campaigning for the recognition of older adult abuse in the 1980s and beyond. The Journal of Adult Protection: Evidence-based practice in relation to safeguarding adults 27(2), pp. 108-113. (10.1108/JAP-01-2025-0003)
- Forrester-Jones, R., Dixon, J. and Jaynes, B. 2024. Exploring romantic need as part of mental health social care practice. Disability and Society 39(10), pp. 2611-2633. (10.1080/09687599.2023.2222900)
- Klein, M., Dixon, J., Butler, C. and Best, D. 2024. “It’s almost as if I’ve relapsed”: An interpretative phenomenological analysis of addiction therapists’ experiences with supporting their clients through repeated relapse. Journal of Drug Issues (10.1177/00220426241277775)
- Laing, J., Dixon, J. and Stone, K. 2024. 'I was going into it blind': Nearest relatives, legal literacy, and the Mental Health Act 1983. International Journal of Law and Psychiatry 94, article number: 101981. (10.1016/j.ijlp.2024.101981)
- Bark, H., Dixon, J. and Laing, J. 2023. The professional identity of social workers in mental health services: a scoping review. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 20(11), article number: 5947. (10.3390/ijerph20115947)
- Richter, D. and Dixon, J. 2023. Models of mental health problems: a quasi-systematic review of theoretical approaches. Journal of Mental Health 32(2), pp. 396-406. (10.1080/09638237.2021.2022638)
- Crath, R., Dixon, J. and Warner, J. 2023. Risk at the boundaries of social work: an editorial. Health, Risk & Society 25(1-2), pp. 1-8. (10.1080/13698575.2023.2172142)
- Dixon, J., Stone, K. and Laing, J. 2022. Beyond the call of duty: a qualitative study into the experiences of family members acting as a nearest relative in Mental Health Act assessments. The British Journal of Social Work 52(7), pp. 3783-3801. (10.1093/bjsw/bcab258)
- Klein, M., Dixon, J. and Butler, C. 2022. Multiple relapses into opiate and crack misuse among people in recovery: an interpretative phenomenological analysis. Journal of Addictions and Offender Counseling 43(2), pp. 97-110. (10.1002/jaoc.12106)
- Dixon, J., Donnelly, S., Campbell, J. and Laing, J. 2022. Safeguarding people living with dementia: how social workers can use supported decision-making strategies to support the human rights of individuals during adult safeguarding enquiries. The British Journal of Social Work 52(3), pp. 1307-1324. (10.1093/bjsw/bcab119)
- Klein, M. and Dixon, J. 2020. Problematising ‘recovery’ in drug policy within Great Britain: a comparative policy analysis between England, Wales and Scotland. Journal of Drug Policy Analysis 13(1) (10.1515/jdpa-2020-0001)
- Brown, C. and Dixon, J. 2020. 'Push on through': children's perspectives on the narratives of resilience in schools identified for intensive mental health promotion. British Educational Research Journal 46(2), pp. 379-398. (10.1002/berj.3583)
- Dixon, J., Laing, J. and Valentine, C. 2020. A human rights approach to advocacy for people with dementia: a review of current provision in England and Wales. Dementia: The International Journal of Social Research and Practice 19(2), pp. 221-236. (10.1177/1471301218770478)
- Dixon, J., Wilkinson-Tough, M., Laing, J. and Stone, K. 2020. Treading a tightrope: professional perspectives on balancing the rights of patient's and relative's under the Mental Health Act in England. Health and Social Care in the Community 28(1), pp. 300-308. (10.1111/hsc.12864)
- Jones, K., Birchley, G., Huxtable, R., Clare, L., Walter, T. and Dixon, J. 2019. End of life care: a scoping review of experiences of advanced care planning for people with dementia. Dementia: The International Journal of Social Research and Practice 18(3), pp. 825-845. (10.1177/1471301216676121)
- Dixon, J. and Richter, D. 2018. Contemporary public perceptions of psychiatry: some problems for mental health professions. Social Theory & Health 16, pp. 326–341. (10.1057/s41285-017-0059-9)
- Dixon, J., Lei, J., Huang, W., Sin, J. and Smith, G. 2018. The views of mental health manager towards the use of a family work model for psychosis in Guangzhou, China. Community Mental Health Journal 54, pp. 1057–1063. (10.1007/s10597-018-0247-7)
- Dixon, J. 2018. Narratives of illness and offending: mentally disordered offenders' views on their offending. Sociology of Health & Illness 40(6), pp. 1053-1068. (10.1111/1467-9566.12740)
- Laing, J., Dixon, J., Wilkinson-Tough, M. and Stone, K. 2018. The nearest relative in the Mental Health Act 2007: still an illusionary and inconsistent safeguard?. Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law 40(1), pp. 37-56. (10.1080/09649069.2018.1414366)
- Birchley, G., Jones, K., Huxtable, R., Dixon, J., Kitzinger, J. and Clare, L. 2016. Dying well with reduced agency: a scoping review and thematic synthesis of the decision-making process in dementia, traumatic brain injury and frailty. BMC Medical Ethics 17, pp. 1-15., article number: 46. (10.1186/s12910-016-0129-x)
- Dixon, J. and Robb, M. 2016. Working with women with a learning disability experiencing domestic abuse: how social workers can negotiate competing definitions of risk. The British Journal of Social Work 46(3), pp. 773–788. (10.1093/bjsw/bcu149)
- Dixon, J. 2015. Treatment, deterrence or labelling: mentally disordered offenders' perspectives on social control. Sociology of Health & Illness 37, pp. 1299-1313. (10.1111/1467-9566.12313)
- Dixon, J. 2013. Effective strategies for communication? Student views of a communication skills course eleven years on. The British Journal of Social Work 43(6), pp. 1190-1205. (10.1093/bjsw/bcs040)
- Dixon, J. 2012. Mentally disordered offenders' views of 'their' risk assessment and management plans: Perceptions of health risks. Health, Risk and Society 14(7-8), pp. 667-680. (10.1080/13698575.2012.720965)
- Dixon, J. 2010. Social supervision, ethics and risk: an evaluation of how ethical frameworks might be applied within the social supervision process. The British Journal of Social Work 40(8), pp. 2398–2413. (10.1093/bjsw/bcq076)
Book sections
- Dixon, J. 2015. Balancing risk and recovery in mental health: An analysis of the way in which policy objectives around risk and recovery affect professional practice in England. In: Chamberlain, J. M. ed. Medicine, Risk, Discourse and Power. Routledge
Books
- Dixon, J. 2023. Adult safeguarding observed. How social workers assess and manage risk and uncertainty. Bristol: Policy Press. (10.51952/9781447357315)
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
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President of the International Sociological Association's Research Committee for the Sociology of Mental Health and Illness (from 2023 - present).
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Vice-chair of the Health Research Authority's Social Care Ethics Committee (from 2022 - present)
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Vice President of the International Sociological Association's Research Committee for the Sociology of Mental Health and Illness (from 2018 - 2023).
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Editorial Board Member of Health, Risk & Society (from 2018 - present)
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Secretary of the European Sociological Association's Research Committee on the Sociology of Risk and Uncertainty (2017-present)
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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
Current supervision
Rosie Moore
Past projects
I have supervised the following projects to completion:
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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).
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Rosie Buckland, ‘Experiences of Mental Health Act assessments: a critical discourse analysis' - URSA Funded Phd Studentship (first supervisor with Dr Sarah Moore).
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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).
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Natalie Booth ‘Women crime and society: A family affair?' (second supervisor with Professor Tess Ridge) – ESRC 1 + 3.
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Renske Visser ‘Ageing in Place: The dwelling and the neighbourhood' (second supervisor with Dr Kate Woodthorpe) – ESRC 1 + 3.
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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
Contact Details
DixonJ7@cardiff.ac.uk
+44 29 2251 4618
sbarc|spark, Room 3.27, Maindy Road, Cathays, Cardiff, CF24 4HQ
+44 29 2251 4618
sbarc|spark, Room 3.27, Maindy Road, Cathays, Cardiff, CF24 4HQ
Research themes
Specialisms
- Social work
- Social care
- Mental Health
- Risk policy
- Safeguarding