Paul Dickerson

A dedicated professional with expertise in inspiring, supporting, and empowering undergraduate and postgraduate students. Skilled in designing apps to enhance the university experience for both students and staff. Accomplished author of pedagogically innovative books and papers, with a strong focus on qualitative research and the intersection of interaction and technology.

• Dautenhahn, K., Werry, I., Rae, J., Dickerson, P., Stribling, P. and Ogden, B. (2002). Robotic Playmates: Analysing Interactive Competencies of Children with Autism Playing with a Mobile Robot. In K. Dautenhahn, A. Bond, L. Canamero and B. Edmonds (Eds.) Socially Intelligent Agents – Creating Relationships with Computers and Robots. Kluwer Academic Publishers. (Pp 117-124).
• Dickerson, P. (1996). Let Me Tell Us Who I Am: The discursive construction of viewer identity. European Journal of Communication, 11, 57-82.
• Dickerson, P. (1997). ‘It’s not just me who’s saying this…’ The deployment of cited others in televised political discourse. British Journal of Social Psychology, 36, 33-48.
• Dickerson, P. (1997). Humpty Dumpty Meet Mikhail Bakhtin. Journal of Pragmatics, 27, 527-530.
• Dickerson, P. (1998). ‘I did it for the nation’: Repertoires of intent in televised political discourse. British Journal of Social Psychology, 37, 477-494.
• Dickerson, P. (2000). ‘But I’m different to them’: Constructing contrasts between self and others in talk in interaction. British Journal of Social Psychology, 39, 381-398.
• Dickerson, P. (2001). Disputing with care: analysing interviewee’s treatment of interviewers’ prior turn in televised political interviews. Discourse Studies, 3, 203-222.
• Dickerson, P., Rae, J., Stribling, P. Dautenhahn, K., Ogden, B. and Werry, I. (2005) Autistic children’s co-ordination of gaze and talk: re-examining the ‘asocial autist’., in K. Richards and P. Seedhouse (Eds). Applying Conversation Analysis. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan., 19-37.
• Dickerson, P. and Robins, B. (2015). Looking or Spotting: A conversation analytic perspective on interaction between a humanoid robot, a co-present adult and a child with an ASC, pp. 59-68 in M O’Reilly and J.N. Lester. The Palgrave Handbook of Child Mental Health. Palgrave MacMillan: Basingstoke, UK.
• Dickerson, P. and Robins, B. (2017). Conversation analysis with children with an ASD and limited verbal ability. pp 167-191 in M. O'Reilly, J. Lester and T. Muskett (Eds.) A Practical Guide to Doing Social Interaction Research in Autistic Spectrum Disorders (ASD): Communication, Discourse and Conversation Analysis. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave MacMillan.
• Dickerson, P., Robins, B. and Dautenhahn, K. (2013). Where the action is: A conversation analytic perspective on interactions between a humanoid robot, a co-present adult and a child with an ASD, Interaction Studies, 14, 297-316.
• Dickerson, P., Stribling, P. and Rae, J. (2007). Tapping into interaction: How children with Autistic Spectrum Disorders design and place tapping in relation to activities in progress. Gesture, 7, 271–303.
• Dickerson, P. (2025). Learning with Socrates – How Generative AI and Ancient Pedagogy can Develop Students’ Critical Thinking Skills. Pp 90-105 in H. Crompton & D. Burke (eds.) Artificial Intelligence Applications in Higher Education: Theories, Ethics, and Case Studies for Universities. Routledge: Taylor & Francis Group.
• Enoksen, A. and Dickerson, P. (2018). "That proves my point": how mediums re- construe disconfirmation in medium-sitter interactions. British Journal of Social Psychology, 57, 386-403
• Goodings, L. & Dickerson, P. (2020). Houston, We've Had a Problem [30 paragraphs]. Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 21(2), Art.
• 5, http:// dx.doi.org/10.17169/fqs-21.2.3331.
• Howe, L, Grey, B. & Dickerson, P. (2022). The early and later-life care experiences of
• individuals using short-term homeless services: an attachment-informed interpretative phenomenological analysis. Mental Health and Social Inclusion. Advance online publication. DOI: 10.1108/MHSI-12-2021-0088
• Korkiakangas, T.K., Rae, J.P. and Dickerson, P. (2012). The interactional work of repeated talk between a teacher and a child with Autism, Journal of Interactional Research in Communication Disorders, 3, 1-25.
• Lucas, R., Dickerson, P., Rae, J. & Essau, C. A. (2022). The impact of immersive video on a parenting programme for adoptive parents, foster carers and special guardians, Adoption and Fostering, 46, 3, p. 227-246.
• Murray, N., Roberts, D., Steed, A., Sharkey, P., Dickerson, P. and Rae, J. (2007). An assessment of eye gaze potential within immersive virtual environments . Association for Computing Machinery Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications, 3(4)1-17.
• Murray, N., Roberts, D., Steed, A., Sharkey, P., Dickerson, P., Rae, J. and Wolff, R. (2009) Eye Gaze in Virtual Environments: Evaluating the need and initial work on implementation. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, 21, 1437-1449.
• O'Driscoll, S., Gaitanidis, A. & Dickerson, P. (2016). A discursive analysis of White trainee counselling psychologists' experience in racial difference. Counselling Psychology Review, 31, 33-45.
• Robins, B., Dautenhahn, K. and Dickerson, P. (2012). Embodied and Cognitive Learning – Can a Humanoid Robot Help Children with Autism to Learn about Tactile Social Behaviour? Lecture Notes in Computer Science vol. 7621, Social Robotics, 66-75.
• Robins, B., Dickerson, P., Stribling, P, & Dautenhan, K. (2004) Robot-mediated joint attention in children with autism.: A case study in robot-human interaction. Interaction Studies, 5 (2), 161-198.
• Stribling, P., Rae, J. and Dickerson, P. (2005) 'Spelling it out': The design, delivery, and placement of 'echolalic' utterances by a child with an autism spectrum disorder. Issues in Applied linguistics, 15,
• Stribling, P. Rae, J. and Dickerson, P. (2007). Two forms of spoken repetition in a girl with autism. International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders. 42, 427 – 444.
• Stribling, P., Rae, J. and Dickerson, P. (2009) Using conversation analysis to explore the recurrence of a topic in the talk of a boy with an autism spectrum disorder. Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics. 23, 555–582.

• Interactional competencies in children with an autistic spectrum disorder (Principal Investigator) ESRC, £47,165 10/2004-09/2005
• Eye Catching: Supporting tele-communicational eye-gaze in Collaborative Virtual Environments (Co-Researcher) EPSRC £84,254 10/2006-09/2008

• Dickerson, P. (2012). Social Psychology: Traditional and Critical Perspectives, Pearson.
• Dickerson, P. (2020). How to Write Brilliant Essays. Sage.
• Dickerson, P. (2021). Social Psychology: Traditional and Critical Perspectives (1st Greek Edition). Kritiki.
• Dickerson, P. (2024). Social Psychology: Traditional and Critical Perspectives (2ndEdition). Sage.
• Dickerson, P. (In Press - AI focus) How to Write Brilliant Essays (2nd Edition – AI focus). Sage.