Hoja de vida de Pauline Dixon

1. Hoja de Vida
Expositora: Pauline Dixon
Tema: La oportunidad de los pobres a una educación de calidad
Jointly authored article on “Private Schools for the Poor in Gansu Province” in Private
Education Research (in Chinese) won first prize in the 2007 academic essay competition of
The Fourth China Educators’ Annual Conference.
Templeton Prize for Free Market Solutions to Poverty, 1st Prize, March 2006, (presented in
Colorado Springs, USA) (As Director of Research in the EG West Centre, Newcastle
University)
The course on “Educational Freedom – A global perspective” jointly created by Dixon and
Tooley won a $25,000 award from the Freedom Project of the Atlas Economic Foundation
(USA).
Don Lavoie Memorial Graduate Student Essay Contest Winner 2003 for Regulation of Private
Schooling for Low-Income Families in India
Full scholarship and place on the ‘Advanced Seminar in Austrian Economics’, in New York,
USA (2001).
PROFESSIONAL BODIES
Member of the Monte Pelerin Society
Editorial Board for the Journal of School Choice, USA
RESEARCH GRANTS - LEADING RESEARCHER/INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH
COORDINATOR
All $ are US dollars
September 2011-September 2013, £310,344.82, UBS, AG, Extending Access to Quality
Education for the Underserved (Contributed to the research proposal as well as bought out
10%)
April 2011-May 2013, £270,000, John Templeton Foundation. Low cost private schools in the
world’s most difficult places: the role of for-profit private education in conflict-affected states
in Africa (Contributed to the research proposal (40%) and named as Co Investigator; bought
out 10%)
Jan 2007-December 2009, $2 million, Orient Global Foundation, Competition, Innovation and
Change in Education Markets for the Poor in Developing Countries (Contributed to the research
proposal and named as one of two co-researchers in this; bought out 60% of my time as
International Research Coordinator; allocated 40% of grant in the RAE summary)
June 2003 to Dec 2005, £568,000, John Templeton Foundation (plus $75,000 additional grant and
$75,000 Templeton matching grant) Is Private Education good for the Poor? A research and
development project in Africa and Asia (Contributed to the research proposal and named as the only
co-researcher; bought out 100% of my time as International Research Co-ordinator; allocated 45%
of grant in the RAE summary).
Jan 2001 –Sep 2002, £86,000, CfBT R&D in private education for the poor in India
1999 Regeneration Project, North East England, Northern Economic Research Unit (NERU)

2. CONSULTANCY
Academic expert columnist for Geopolitical Information Services 2011-present
(http://www.geopolitical-info.com/en)
Education Advisor for International Education 2009-present - Absolute Return for Kids (ARK)
with focus on schools catering for the poor in Delhi, India – Voucher Programme and Phonics
Intervention.
South Africa 2008-2009 - The Centre for Development and Enterprise in Johannesburg –
Private Schools for the Poor in South Africa.
PUBLICATIONS - BOOKS AND MONOGRAPHS
Dixon, P. and Marshall, P. (2011) International Aid and Educating the Poorest, London,
Centre Forum.
Dixon, P. (2010) RTE Act and Private School Regulation, CCS Policy Review 4, Delhi, India
Centre for Civil Society.
Tooley, J., and Dixon, P. (2006) Educación Privada Y Pobreza – Un estudio de las escuelas
privadas que sirven en países de bajos ingresos, Lima, Peru, UPC.
Tooley, James, and Dixon, Pauline (2005) Private education is good for the poor: A study of
private schools serving the poor in low-income countries, Washington DC: Cato Institute.
(Translated into Spanish, 2006, published in Peru and Guatemala).
Tooley, James, and Dixon, Pauline (2005) Private Schools Serving the Poor: A study from
Delhi, India, Centre for Civil Society, New Delhi
Tooley, James, Dixon, Pauline and Stanfield, James (2003) Delivering Better Education:
market solutions to education London, Adam Smith Institute
Tooley, James and Dixon, Pauline, (2003) Private Schools for the Poor: A Case Study from
India, Reading, CfBT
Craven, B., Dixon, P., Stewart, G., and Tooley, J. (2001) HIV and Aids in Schools: The
political economy of pressure groups and miseducation, London, Profile Books.
PUBLICATIONS - CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
Dixon P, and Woolner P. (2012) Practical Quantitative Data Analysis - Using SPSS. In: Briggs,
A. and Coleman, M, ed. Research Methods in Educational Leadership and
Management. Sage: London, 2012, pp.340-362.
Dixon, P., and Tooley, J. (2011) Revolution at the grassroots in developing countries:
Implications for School Choice in America, In: Forster, G., Thompson, C.B., ed.
Freedom and School Choice in American Education, New York: Palgrave Macmillan,
2011, pp. 111-128.
Dixon P. (2011) Private Schools for the Poor: A Little Nurturing and Support goes a very long
way. In: Leube, K.R., ed. Economics, Politics, Philosophy, and the Arts: Essays in
Honor of H.S.H. Prince Philipp of Liechtenstein. van Eck Publishers.
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3. Dixon, P. (2008) Delivering Better Education: A Market for Schools, In HSH Prince Michael of
Liechtenstien, Leube, K. R., (Eds.) 2068, Liechtenstein, Industrie Und Finanzkontor.
Tooley, J., and Dixon, P., (2007). Private education for low income families: Research from a
global research project. In:Srivastava, P., Walford, G. (Eds.), Private Schooling in
Less Economically Developed Countries: Asian and African Perspective. Symposium
Books, Didcot.
Tooley, James and Dixon, Pauline, (2006), The Failures of State Schooling in Developing
Countries and the People’s Response, in Miles, M., Homes, K.R., and O’Grady, M.A.
(eds), 2006 Index of Economic Freedom, Chapter 2, 27-37, The Heritage Foundation
and Wall Street Journal, Washington DC.
Tooley, James and Dixon, Pauline (2006), Los fracasos de la educación pública en los países
en desarrollo y la respuesta popular, in Miles, M., Homes, K.R., and O’Grady, M.A. (eds),
Indice de Libertad Economica 2006, Capítulo 2, 29-39, The Heritage Foundation and
Wall Street Journal, Washington DC.
Tooley, James and Dixon, Pauline, (2003) “Providing Education to the World’s Poor: A case
study of the private sector in India”, in Davies, Brent and West-Burnham, John (eds),
The Handbook of Educational Leadership and Management, Pearson Longman, London
and New York.
PUBLICATIONS – REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES
Dixon, P., Schagen, I., and Seedhouse, P. (2011) The Impact of an Intervention on Children's
Reading and Spelling Ability in Low-Income Schools in India, School Effectiveness and
School Improvement, Volume 22, No.4
Dixon P., and Tooley, J. (forthcoming) The Impact of Free Primary Education on Private
Schools in Kibera, Kenya: A longitudinal study – Four Years On, Educational
Management, Administration and Leadership,
Burgess, M., and Dixon, P. (forthcoming) An Assessment of School Climate in the Developing
World: A Comparative Study of Private and Public Sector School Management in
Aguablanca, Colombia, Educational Management Administration and Leadership
Tooley, J., Dixon, P., Bao, Y., and Merrifield, J. (2011), School Choice and Academic
Performance: Some Evidence from Developing Countries, Journal of School Choice:
Research, Theory and Reform, 2011, volume 5, number 1, pp. 1-39
Tooley, J., Dixon, P, and SV Gomathi, (2010) A Rejoinder to Sarangapani and Winch, Oxford
Review of Education, Volume 36, Issue 4 August 2010 , pages 517 – 520, doi:
10.1080/03054985.2010.509169
Tooley, J., Dixon, P., Shamsan, Y., and Schagen, I. (2010) ‘The Relative Quality and Cost-
Effectiveness of Private and Public schools for Low-income Families: A case study from
developing countries’, School Effectiveness and School Improvement. Volume 20 issue
4, pp.1-28
Tooley, J., Dixon, P., and Stanfield, J. (2008) The Impact of Free Education in Kenya: A case
study in private schools in Kibera, Educational Management, Administration and
Leadership, Volume 36, No 4, pp. 449-469
Tooley, James; Qiang, Liu; & Dixon, Pauline. (2007). Private Schools for the Poor in Gansu
Province, China. Xi’an: Private Education Research. Vol. 6, 29 (2), pp 25-28. 詹姆
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4. 斯·杜力，刘强， 鲍玲·狄金森. (2007). 中国甘肃省农村地区为低收入家庭服务的民办
学校. 西安:民办教育研究.第六期，29 卷（2），25-28 页.
Tooley, J., and Dixon, P. (2007) Private schooling for low-income families: A census and
comparative survey in East Delhi, India, International Journal of Educational
Development, volume 27, no. 2, pp. 205-219.
Tooley, James, Dixon, Pauline and Gomathi, S.V., (2007) Private Schools and the Millennium
Development Goal of Universal Primary Education: A census and comparative survey
in Hyderabad, India, Oxford Review of Education 33(5), 539-560.
Tooley, James, Dixon, Pauline and Amuah, Isaac (2007), “Private and Public Schooling in Ga,
Ghana: A census and comparative survey” International Review of Education 53(3–
4): 389-415.
Tooley, J., and Dixon, P. (2006) Los fracasos de la educacion publica y la respuesta popular,
Perspectiva, No. 9, pp. 22-27
Tooley, James and Dixon, Pauline, (2006) ‘De Facto’ Privatisation of Education and the Poor:
Implications of a Study from sub-Saharan Africa and India, Compare 36(4), 443-462
Tooley, J., P. Dixon, and O. Olaniyan. 2005. “Private and Public Schooling in Low-Income
Areas of Lagos State, Nigeria: A Census and Comparative Survey.” International
Journal of Educational Research 43(3): 125–46.
Tooley, James and Dixon, Pauline (2005) An Inspector Calls: the regulation of ‘budget’ private
schools in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India, International Journal of Educational
Development. 25, 269-285
Dixon, P., and Tooley, J., (2005) The Regulation of Private schools serving Low-income
families in Andhra Pradesh, India, Review of Austrian Economics, volume 18 no.1,
March, pp. 29-54
Tooley, James and Dixon, Pauline (2005) Is there a conflict between commercial gain and
concern for the poor? Evidence from private schools for the poor in India and Nigeria,
Economic Affairs, 25.2, 20-27.
Dixon, P. (2004) The Regulation of Private schools serving Low-income families in Hyderabad,
India: An Austrian Economic Perspective, Economic Affairs, vol. 24, no. 4, pp. 31-37,
December, IEA, London.
Mitra, Sugata, Tooley, James, Inamdar, Parimala, and Dixon, Pauline, (2003), “Improving
English Pronunciation: An automated instructional approach”, Information Technologies
and International Development, 1.1.75-84
DOCTORAL STUDENTS
Completion
Dr. Ahmed Al-Zaidi
Current supervisions
Ahmad Ismail
Mohamad, Amer
Pi-Yu Kao
Busola Eshiet
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5. Tina Huddart
Christine M Chifamba
Michael Burgess
Chris Counihan
COURSES TAUGHT AT NEWCASTLE
MA (International Development and Education)
MEd (International Development and Education)
MARes (Masters in Educational Research)
REFERENCES
Professor Tom Kirkwood CBE, Professor of Medicine and Director, Institute for Ageing and Health,
Newcastle University, Campus for Ageing and Vitality, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE4 5PL –
tom.kirkwood@ncl.ac.uk
Professor Pete Boettke, Director of the James M. Buchanan Center for Political Economy, Mercatus
Center, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA – pboettke@gmu.edu
Professor Sir Christopher Edwards, Coldharbour House, Court-at-Street Lympne, Kent,
England CT21 4PE (Retired Vice Chancellor, Newcastle University) 01303 261564 –
c.edwards@ncl.ac.uk
OTHER INTERESTS
Home, cats, family, sport, India.
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