#  David Johnson 

Chartered Psychologist and Professorial Fellow and Reader in Comparative and International Education in the University of Oxford

 

 

 



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**David Johnson** is a Chartered Psychologist and Professorial Fellow and Reader in Comparative and International Education in the University of Oxford. He is the director of the Centre for Comparative and International Education.

David studies educational systems in the developing world and is particularly interested in countries affected by war and conflict. He has written widely on ethnicity, conflict and education in countries such as South Africa, Sierra Leone, and Sudan and on post-election violence on education in Kenya.

He is the series editor of Policy Directions for Raising Learning Outcomes in Developing Countries (Bloomsbury) and was until recently the Programme Research Lead for the £20 million ESRC/DFD funded Raising Learning Outcomes in Education Systems in Developing Countries Research Programme that comprises of 30 research studies in 15 countries in Africa, South Asia, and Latin America.

Currently he is one of 5 principal investigators in a £3million research study on Nigeria. The research is housed at Princeton University and falls under the auspices of the Research on Improving Systems of Education (RISE) Research Programme (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford).

He works closely with the World Bank on the design and implementation of National Learning Assessments in Sudan (2015 and 2018) and Nigeria (2019) and designed in 2010 indicators for the assessment of teacher effort and motivation, currently used in a comparative study of service delivery (Service Delivery Indicators, World Bank) across sub-Saharan Africa.