Dr Adam Dixon

BA (George Washington), Masters (Sci-Po Paris), DPhil (Oxon)

Lecturer in Human Geography

Contact

Office: 2.13n
Tel: +44 (0)117 928 9829
Fax: +44 (0)117 9287878
Email: adam.dixon@bristol.ac.uk

Research interests

Adam's research interest straddles the boundaries of several disciplines, primarily that of geography, political science, sociology and economics. He is currently engaged in three primary research areas.

Financial Geography and Economic Development: A large part of Adam's research is focused on political and economic geographies of financial institutions, particularly large institutional investors. More specifically, this research focuses on understanding the relationship between the political development of institutional investors and economic development at different geographic scales.
Political Geography of Sovereign Wealth Funds: This area of research is interested in conceptualizing the relationship between sovereignty and the sovereign wealth fund.
Corporate Environmental Management: This area of research focuses on understanding how firms manage their environmental footprint, particularly in relation to the long-term value proposition they can offer to investors.

Selected publications

Dixon, AD. 'Variegated capitalism and the geography of finance: Towards a common agenda', Progress in Human Geography, 35, (pp. 193-210), 2011. ISSN: 0309-1325 10.1177/0309132510372006

Clark, GL, Monk, A, Dixon, AD, Pauly, LW, Faulconbridge, J, Yeung, H & Behrendt, S. 'Symposium: sovereign fund capitalism', Environment and Planning A, 42, (pp. 2271-2291), 2010. ISSN: 0308-518X 10.1068/a43313

Clark, GL, Dixon, AD & Monk, AHB (Eds.). Managing Financial Risks: From Global to Local, Oxford University Press, 2009. ISBN: 9780199557431

Dixon, AD & Monk, AHB. 'The power of finance: accounting harmonization's effect on pension provision', Journal of Economic Geography, 9, (pp. 619-639), 2009. ISSN: 1468-2710 10.1093/jeg/lbp018