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Kerryn Dixon, Dr

Associate Professor at University of the Witwatersrand

Kerryn Dixon is Associate Professor in the School of Education at the University of Nottingham. Her career spans South Africa, Australia, and the UK, and she has held visiting appointments at the University of South Carolina and the University of Queensland. A scholar of critical language and literacy studies, her research focuses on children's meaning-making, literacy practices, and the ways power circulates through educational, linguistic, and social contexts. Drawing on critical, posthuman, and Global South perspectives, she examines how children's lives, identities, and learning are shaped across diverse settings. She is the co-author of Language Narratives and Shifting Multilingual Pedagogies: English Teaching from the South (Bloomsbury, 2023), which received the 2024 UKLA Academic Book Award, and Postdigital Play and Global Education Research: Reconfiguring Research (Routledge, 2024). She is Associate Editor of Literacy, a founding member of the Global South Childhood Studies Network, and has contributed to international research, policy, and professional debates on language, literacy, multilingualism, childhood, and educational justice.