Keith Dixon presently lives with his wife Hegnes, and their two younger offspring, Edwin and Eileen, in Christchurch. His family ties are to Northumbria and to Nikunau Island. His academic career has included spells in several locations including Nottingham, Port Moresby, both main islands of New Zealand and Tarawa, for organisations as diverse as the UK Government Department for International Development, the Institute of Public Administration of Papua New Guinea, Kiribati Institute of Technology, and Massey, Keele and the Open Universities. He has worked at the University of Canterbury since 2007, researching about, and designing and staging courses in, accounting, finance, management and governance, mainly of governments and organisations that provide public services. He has been publishing about Pacific islands since the 1990s, specialising mostly on Kiribati and Aotearoa. He recently published the book, Acclimatising to higher ground: The realities of life of a Pacific Atoll People (Paperback ISBN: 9789464260298 | Hardback ISBN: 9789464260304 | Imprint: Sidestone Press).

Accounting, Critical History, Migration, Diasporas, Mining and its Discontents, Public Services, Indigenous Inquiry

Administrative sciences
Economical sciences

New Zealand
Kiribati
Papua (Indonesia)
Papua New Guinea
Indonesia

Kiribati
Nikunau
Tarawa
Canterbury
New Zealand

The Colonial time
20th century
21st century
Anticipatory
Geological eras

English, Kiribati