He took part in the BSA's excavations at Palaikastro,[4] and the survey of Lakonia[5] (see Artemis Orthia and Menelaion, Sparta); also at Rhitsona.

[6] He undertook linguistic fieldwork in Cappadocia from 1909 to 1911, which resulted in a basic work on Cappadocian Greek.

[8] During the First World War, he served as an intelligence officer attached to the Royal Navy in Crete.

[9] In December 1919, he was elected the first Bywater Professor of Byzantine and Modern Greek Language and Literature in the University of Oxford.

[8] Between 1928 and 1930, Dawkins served as president of the Folklore Society, and in his later life published three considerable collections of Greek folk tales.