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 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,[6][7] The Development of National, Ethnolinguistic and Religious Identity in Children and Adolescents living in the New Independent States of the former Soviet Union,[7][8][9] and Processes Influencing Democratic Ownership and Participation (PIDOP).
In this role, he has participated in a number of intercultural education and citizenship education projects, including: developing the Autobiography of Intercultural Encounters;[14] editing a book examining the similarities and the differences between interculturalism and multiculturalism;[15] co-authoring a statement paper on Developing Intercultural Competence through Education;[16] leading the development of the Reference Framework of Competences for Democratic Culture;[17][18][19] and acting as the lead expert on assessment for the Education Policy Advisers Network.
[20] 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.