He is also Director of the Center for the Study of Ethical Development and Principal Investigator for the ‘Educational Leadership for Character’ project funded ($2.5m) by the Kern Family Foundation. His interdisciplinary research explores how to develop character and how character is shaped by context and culture.
After a first career as a soldier, Walker received his PhD from Durham University, UK and completed post-doctoral study at Purdue University, USA before leading research at the University of Birmingham in UK. He was awarded a Vice Chancellors’ Senior Research Fellowship at Northumbria University, UK before taking up his current position.
Dr. Walker is a Fellow of the UK Higher Education Authority, is a member of the Editorial Board for the Journal of Moral Education and is on the steering committee for the Network for Research on Morality.