Dickon is a clinical academic who leads the urological research team within the School of Surgery and is responsible for undergraduate education in urology at the University of Western Australia. He is a urologist at Fremantle Hospital and has recently been appointed Head of Urology at the new Fiona Stanley Hospital. Dickon chairs the West Australian Urologic Research Organisation and leads the Urology Tumour Collaborative of the WA Cancer & Palliative Care Network (WACPCN).