Hannah Walker

Project Manager: Schools 2030

Hannah Walker is the Portfolio Lead for Global Education at Open Development and Education. She has worked in both international and UK-based education settings for over nine years. Prior to joining the team, she worked in UK secondary state schools for four years, focusing on work with pupil premium students and EdTech as a classroom and assessment tool. She holds an MPhil in International Development and Education from the University of Cambridge and conducted her research in rural Zimbabwe on technology-supported teacher professional development and interactive classroom pedagogy. Her international experience spans across multiple projects and countries with a focus on enhancing the quality of education through effective teacher professional development, monitoring and evaluation, curriculum development and EdTech interventions – key project funders include FCDO, UNICEF, NHS, Dubai Cares.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Walker, H., Moustafa, N., & Haßler, B. (2023). EdTech Impact in Education – An Analysis Prepared for the Education Endowment Foundation. OpenDevEd. https://doi.org/10.53832/opendeved.0294
Walker, H., Tegha, G., Lurvink, A.-F., McBurnie, C., & McBurnie, H. W., Ghislaine Tegha, Anne-Fleur Lurvink and Chris. (2022, March 31). Tich Mi Ar Tich Dem - Open Development & Education. https://opendeved.net/2022/03/31/tich-mi-ar-tich-dem/, https://opendeved.net/2022/03/31/tich-mi-ar-tich-dem/
Walker, H., Hennessy, S., & Pimmer, C. (2022). Trialling open educational resources for technology-supported teacher professional development in rural Zimbabwe. Research Papers in Education, 0(0), 1–25. https://doi.org/10.1080/02671522.2022.2034925
Haßler, B., Adam, T., Allier-Gagneur, Z., Blower, T., Brugha, M., Damani, K., Hennessy, S., Hollow, D., Jordan, K., Martin, K., Megha-Bongnkar, G., Murphy, M., & Walker, H. (2021). Methodology for literature reviews (Working Paper 10). EdTech Hub. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4557508
Girls’ Education Challenge, & EdTech Hub. (2021). Designing and monitoring distance teaching and learning interventions: A guide for projects and implementers | INEE. https://inee.org/resources/designing-and-monitoring-distance-teaching-and-learning-interventions-guide-projects-and
Haßler, B., Adam, T., Brugha, M., Damani, K., Allier-Gagneur, Z., Hennessy, S., Hollow, D., Jordan, K., Martin, K., Murphy, M., & Walker, H. (2019). Literature reviews of educational technology research in low and middle-income countries: an audit of the field (EdTech Hub Working Paper 2). EdTech Hub. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3523942
Haßler, B., D’Angelo, S., Walker, H., & Marsden, M. (2019). Synthesis of Reviews on Teacher Professional Development in Sub-Saharan Africa. Open Development & Education. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3497271
Walker, H. (2018). A Critical Investigation into How Year 8 Students’ Narrative Writing Skills are Developed Through the Medium of Oral Storytelling. Journal of Classics Teaching, 19(37), 35–45. https://doi.org/10.1017/S2058631018000053

Full list of publications available here.