Dr. David Ian Walker is Professor in the Department of Educational Studies at the University of Alabama.  He is also Director of the Center for the Study of Ethical Development. 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 for the Association of Moral Education.