{{Short description|British social scientist}} '''Martyn David Barrett''', FBPsS, FAcSS, FRSA (born 18 June 1951) is a British social scientist. He was educated at the St John's College, Cambridge and the University of Sussex, and originally specialised in developmental psychology. He taught at Roehampton Institute of Higher Education (1978-1987), Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, University of London (1987-1993) and the University of Surrey (1993-2012). Since 2012, he has held the position of Emeritus Professor of Psychology at the University of Surrey.<ref>{{cite web |title=Surrey University Biography |url=https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/martyn-barrett |access-date=29 December 2020}}</ref>

Barrett conducted his doctoral research on language acquisition,<ref>Barrett, M.D. (1979). Semantic Development during the Single-Word Stage of Language Acquisition (Unpublished doctoral thesis, University of Sussex, UK).</ref> including semantic development, pragmatic development and holophrasis (sentence words), and published several books on the development of language in children.<ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Barrett |editor1-first=M |title=Children's Single-Word Speech |date=1985 |publisher=John Wiley |location=Chichester |isbn=0471903744}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Kuczaj |editor1-first=S.A. |editor2-last=Barrett |editor2-first=M. |title=The Development of Word Meaning |date=1986 |publisher=Springer-Verlag |location=New York |isbn=3540961526}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Barrett |editor1-first=M |title=The Development of Language |date=1999 |publisher=Psychology Press |location=Hove |isbn=0863778461}}</ref> He subsequently worked on the development of children's national identity and ethnic identity, the development of national, ethnic and racial attitudes and prejudice in children and adolescents, and the development of civic engagement and political participation in youth, ethnic minorities and migrants. He led three multinational research projects on these topics funded by the European Commission: ''Children’s Beliefs and Feelings about their Own and Other National Groups in Europe'',<ref>{{cite web |title=Children's beliefs and feelings about their own and other national groups in Europe |url=https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/CHRX940687 |access-date=29 December 2020}}</ref><ref name=ckbfnng>{{cite book |last1=Barrett |first1=M. |title=Children's Knowledge, Beliefs and Feelings about Nations and National Groups |date=2007 |publisher=Psychology Press |location=Hove |isbn=978-1841693019}}</ref> ''The Development of National, Ethnolinguistic and Religious Identity in Children and Adolescents living in the New Independent States of the former Soviet Union'',<ref name=ckbfnng/><ref>{{cite web |title=The development of national, ethnolinguistic and religious identity in children and adolescents living in the NIS |url=https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/INTAS-1997-01363 |access-date=29 December 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Barrett |editor1-first=M. |editor2-last=Riazanova |editor2-first=T. |editor3-last=Volovikova |editor3-first=M. |title=Development of National, Ethnolinguistic and Religious Identities in Children and Adolescents |date=2001 |publisher=Institute of Psychology, Russian Academy of Sciences (IPRAS) |location=Moscow |isbn=5927000223}}</ref> and ''Processes Influencing Democratic Ownership and Participation (PIDOP)''.<ref>{{cite web |title=Processes Influencing Democratic Ownership and Participation |url=https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/225282 |access-date=29 December 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Processes Influencing Democratic Ownership and Participation |url=https://pidop.surrey.ac.uk/ |access-date=29 December 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Barrett |editor1-first=M. |editor2-last=Zani |editor2-first=B. |title=Political and Civic Engagement: Multidisciplinary Perspectives |date=2015 |publisher=Routledge |location=London |isbn=9780415704687}}</ref>

Since 2006,<ref>{{cite web |title=Professor Martyn Barrett |url=https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/martyn-barrett |website=University of Surrey |access-date=29 December 2020}}</ref> Barrett has been a consultant for the Council of Europe. In this role, he has participated in a number of intercultural education and citizenship education projects, including: developing the ''Autobiography of Intercultural Encounters'';<ref>{{cite web |title=Autobiography of Intercultural Encounters |url=https://www.coe.int/autobiography |access-date=1 January 2021}}</ref> editing a book examining the similarities and the differences between interculturalism and multiculturalism;<ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Barrett |editor1-first=M. |title=Interculturalism and Multiculturalism: Similarities and Differences |date=2013 |publisher=Council of Europe Publishing |location=Strasbourg |isbn=9789287176929}}</ref> co-authoring a statement paper on ''Developing Intercultural Competence through Education'';<ref>{{cite book |last1=Barrett |first1=M. |last2=Byram |first2=M. |last3=Lázár |first3=I. |last4=Mompoint-Gaillard |first4=P. |last5=Philippou |first5=S |title=Developing Intercultural Competence through Education |date=2013 |publisher=Council of Europe Publishing |location=Strasbourg}}</ref> leading the development of the ''Reference Framework of Competences for Democratic Culture'';<ref>{{cite web |title=Reference Framework of Competences for Democratic Culture |url=https://www.coe.int/en/web/reference-framework-of-competences-for-democratic-culture/ |access-date=1 January 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Barrett |first1=M. |title=Competences for Democratic Culture: Living Together as Equals in Culturally Diverse Democratic Societies |date=2016 |publisher=Council of Europe Publishing |location=Strasbourg |isbn=9789287182371}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Barrett |first1=M. |last2=de Bivar Black |first2=L. |last3=Byram |first3=M. |last4=Faltýn |first4=J. |last5=Gudmundson |first5=L. |last6=van’t Land |first6=H. |last7=Lenz |first7=C. |last8=Mompoint-Gaillard |first8=P. |last9=Popović |first9=M. |last10=Rus |first10=C. |last11=Sala |first11=S. |last12=Voskresenskaya |first12=N. |last13=Zgaga |first13=P. |title=Reference Framework of Competences for Democratic Culture |date=2018 |publisher=Council of Europe Publishing |location=Strasbourg |isbn=9789287185730}}</ref> and acting as the lead expert on assessment for the ''Education Policy Advisers Network''.<ref>{{cite web |title=Education Policy Advisers Network (EPAN) |url=https://www.coe.int/en/web/reference-framework-of-competences-for-democratic-culture/education-policy-advisers-network-epan- |access-date=1 January 2021}}</ref>

Barrett has also worked for the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), helping to design the global competence assessments for use in PISA 2018.<ref>{{cite web |title=PISA 2018 Global Competence |url=http://www.oecd.org/pisa/pisa-2018-global-competence.htm |access-date=1 January 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Piacentini |first1=M. |last2=Barrett |first2=M. |last3=Boix Mansilla |first3=V. |last4=Deardorff |first4=D. |last5=Lee |first5=H-W. |title=Preparing our youth for an inclusive and sustainable world: The OECD PISA global competence framework |url=http://www.oecd.org/pisa/Handbook-PISA-2018-Global-Competence.pdf |publisher=OECD |access-date=1 January 2021 |location=Paris |date=2018}}</ref>

In 2022, Barrett was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Psychology by the University of Chichester.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Honorary Awards |url=https://www.chi.ac.uk/alumni/honorary-awards/ |access-date=2025-06-11 |website=University of Chichester |language=en-GB}}</ref>

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== * [https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/martyn-barrett Home page] * [https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ou-_WbAAAAAJ&hl=en Google Scholar page]

{{DEFAULTSORT:Barrett, Martyn}} Category:1951 births Category:Fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences Category:Living people Category:Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge Category:Fellows of the Royal Society of Arts