Dr Steve Dixon-Smith

Bio

Steve completed an ESRC funded PhD in Education at Goldsmiths, University of London in 2024. His research takes a critical sociolinguistic approach to questions of social justice and centres around race and class in Higher Education. This approach has been informed by his professional practice across a range of Higher Education Institutions and his studies In Applied Linguistics (MA Kings College, London) and Social and Political Theory (MSc Birkbeck, University of London). He became a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in 2019.

Research outputs

• Dixon-Smith, S. (2023) ‘Language and Youth in Education and Family’ in B. Svensen and R. Jonsson (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Language and Youth Culture. London: Routledge.
• Dixon-Smith, S. (2022) ‘‘‘How are you Brown?’: orienting to racializing discourses and exclusion at university in Brexit Britain’, in A. Auer & J. Thorburn (eds.) Approaches to Migration, Language and Identity. Bern: Peter Lang.
• Badger, I., Dixon-Smith, S., Hatfield, E., Kupper, C., Rowan, J., Sutter, J. & Wallis, M. (2016) 'Critical collaboration: a narrative account of a newly established professional team' In: Schneider, M. et al. (ed.) Connecting the dots: Collaboration across learning support professions in higher education to enhance student learning. Huddersfield: Innovative Libraries.

Commissioned Papers

• Da Costa, C., Dixon-Smith, S. & Singh, G. (2021) Beyond BAME: Rethinking the politics, construction, application, and efficacy of ethnic categorisation. Coventry: HERAG. Accessible at: https://pureportal.coventry.ac.uk/en/publications/beyond-bame-rethinking-the-politics-construction-application-and-
• Dixon-Smith, S. (2017) Co-researching beyond the category: a thematic analysis of a student-led focus group study into BME student experiences at the University for the Creative Arts. UCA. Accessible at: https://tinyurl.com/ycea5886

Selected Conference Papers

• Dixon-Smith, S. (2023) ‘Looking like a Londonish accent: indexical inversion and everyday articulations of race and class in a UK undergraduate architecture studio’ Explorations in Ethnography, Language and Communication 9. UCL.
• Dixon-Smith, S. (2021) ‘Beyond BAME: discursive constructions of identity’ Degrees of Difference: Examining racialised disadvantage in UK higher education, BERA Annual Conference.
• Dixon-Smith, S. (2021) ‘Constructing ethnicities in racialized structures: questions of identity’, Why (not) Race, Sociolinguistic Symposium 23. University of Hong Kong.
• Badger, I., Dixon-Smith, S., Holder, A. & Trogal, A. (2019) ‘Demystifying, challenging and (re)working together: Cross-specialist collaboration to support transitions into HE’, Curriculum Design Symposium: The Hidden Curriculum: Unpacking the academic practices critical for student success. Advance HE.
• Dixon-Smith, S. (2019) ‘Re-articulating ethnicity, race and class in Higher Education’, BERA Annual Conference: Social Justice SIG.
• Dixon-Smith, S. (2018) ‘Transition Talk: discursive constructions of identity beyond ‘BME’ for architecture students entering HE’, Critical perspectives on transitions into, through and beyond Higher Education. Centre for Higher Education Equity Research – University of Sussex.
• Dixon-Smith, S. & Elugbadebo-Solomons, A. (2017) ‘Co-researching beyond the Category’ Paper presented at Connecting Higher Education: International perspectives on research-based education. UCL.