Dickenson has supervised more than 20 completed PhD students as well as contributing to undergraduate science and medical teaching.

He is a founding and continuing member of the London Pain Consortium, a Wellcome Trust Integrated Physiology Initiative, which funds a group of scientists in London and Oxford studying pain mechanisms and educating young scientists in this field.

[2] He has authored more than 330 refereed publications[3] including Science and Nature, edited three books and written many chapters.

At UCL, the focus of his group's research has been based on understanding the transmission and control of pain, how neuronal systems alter in pathophysiological states and how novel and licensed drugs produce their effects with the aim of translating the basic research into clinical applications.

Tony's group was also the first to show the NMDA receptor mediation of wind-up and its role in persistent pain.