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Academic Biography
Dr Kevin Dixon is a criminology‑aligned social scientist whose work focuses on crime, social harm, regulation, and civic responsibility, using sport, leisure, and digital cultures as applied research contexts.
He has authored or edited six books with leading publishers, including Sport and Crime (Routledge, 2025) and Screen Society (Palgrave, 2018), alongside a sustained record of peer‑reviewed publications. His research examines violence, deviance, masculinism, digital risk, and moral regulation, with clear relevance to policy, and public debate.
As a measure of research quality, Dr Dixon has been returned to the Research Excellence Framework on two occasions. In REF 2014, he was returned under Unit 22 (Social Work and Social Policy), with the Teesside University submission ranked joint 5th nationally. In REF 2021, he was returned under Unit 24 (Sport and Exercise Sciences, Leisure and Tourism), which placed 12th out of 61 submissions.
His latest funded research is a Leverhulme Research Fellowship examining masculinism and institutional responses to digital harm in what he terms the “Platformed Risk Society.”
Dr Dixon currently supervises PhD candidates and welcomes enquiries from prospective doctoral students.
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Digital Patriarchy and the Perceived Threat of Andrew Tate: Women’s Experiences in the Platformed Risk Society
Dixon, K., Cashmore, E. & Cleland, J., 17 Feb 2026, In: Sociology. 19 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Staging the spectacle: the panoptic–synoptic dynamics of prosumer fandom in live PDC darts
Davis, L. & Dixon, K., 9 Feb 2026, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Managing Sport and Leisure. 23 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The footballer as enterprise – players as brands, activists, and media platforms
Cashmore, E. & Dixon, K., 3 Jun 2026, In: Football Studies. 1, 6 p., 100056.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Fighting to survive: the precarity of grassroots boxing as a leisure practice – a Bourdieusian perspective
Dixon, K., Genner, K. & Wright, M., 27 Oct 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Leisure Studies. 21 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Sports and cybercrime: an overview of a growing threat
Cleland, J. & Dixon, K., 9 Jun 2025, In: Managing Sport and Leisure. p. 1-11 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Football is a business like no other – despite all of this the fans keep coming back, they can’t help it.
12/04/16
1 Media contribution
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Will the Paris 2024 Olympics be a platform for activist protests amid global tensions? Phys Org Social Science News.
2/07/24
1 item of Media coverage
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Live interview at Middlesbrough Central Library ahead of Middlesbrough FC’s promotion match.
17/05/16
1 Media contribution
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Depriving children of screen time is tantamount to 'child abuse'
21/05/18
1 item of Media coverage
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BBC Radio Tees Covers Conference held at Teesside University, 'The People's Game: contemporary challenges in football cultures'.
7/09/18
1 Media contribution
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