Dr Vicky Johnson

Senior Research Fellow

contact:
Education
Falmer
Brighton
BN1 9PH

Telephone: +44 (0)1273 643923

Email: V.Johnson2@brighton.ac.uk

Duties

• Senior Research Fellow within the Education Research Centre

Biography

Dr. Vicky Johnson is a Senior Research Fellow in the Education Research Centre at the University of Brighton. She has over twenty years of experience as a researcher and consultant in international social development and community development in the UK, with particular expertise in the areas of: strategic planning, policy development, participatory action research, children and young people’s participation, child protection/safeguarding, gender and inclusion, and monitoring, evaluation, impact assessment and learning.

Vicky has consistently published in the field of children and young people’s participation and holds a PhD in Childhood and Youth Research, specifically examining how changing contexts affect children’s participation. She has trained professionals and research teams to build their capacity in research and evaluation methodology and has been invited as a guest lecturer/ presenter at Universities, INGO and donor events, having also taught on Masters programmes for International Childhoods, Education and Development Studies at Birkbeck College.

Vicky has substantial experience of leading participatory research processes, training, evaluation and providing expert input for a number of international organizations including UNHCR, ILO, DFID, SIDA, CIDA, IPPF, Save the Children UK and Alliance, Plan International, ActionAid, and local national organisations across Africa, Asia and Latin America. In the UK, she has worked with local and national government and a range of NGOs, for example Brighton and Hove Council and a number of other local councils around the UK, Crawley and Croydon PCTs, the Croydon Children’s Fund. She recently led the international programmes and partnerships work of an international development charity called ChildHope who has a core principle the Right to Education and was a Visiting Fellow at the University of Central Lancashire.

Publications

Johnson, V. (2011), ‘Conditions for Change for Children and Young People’s Participation in Evaluation: ‘Change-scape’, Child Indicators Research, Springer Vol 4 No 4 pp 577-596

Johnson, V. (2010), ‘Revisiting Children and Researchers in Nepal: What facilitates and hinders change in a context of conflict and the changing political economy’, Journal for International Development, Wiley, Vol 22 No 8 pp 1076-1089

Johnson, V. (2009), Rights through Evaluation and Understanding Children’s Realities, in Percy-Smith, B. and Thomas, N. (2009), A Handbook of Children and Young People’s Participation: Perspectives from Theory and Practice, Routledge, Oxford

Johnson, V. (2009), Children’s Autonomous Organisation: Reflections from the Ground, in Thomas, N. (ed.), Children, Politics and Communication: Participation at the margins, Policy Press, Bristol

Johnson, V. with Nurick, R. (2008), ‘The Legacy: Croydon Children’s Fund’, Johnson, V. et al, (2005), ‘Croydon Children’s Fund: Full Programme Evaluation’ (2005), Croydon Voluntary Action, Croydon, Croydon

Johnson, V. and Nurick, R. (2005), ‘Gaining Respect: The Voices of Children in Conflict with The Law’, Save the Children UK, London

Chawla, L. and Johnson, V. (2004), ‘Not for Children Only: Lessons learnt from young people’s participation’, Participatory Learning and Action (PLA), 50: 63-72, IIED, London

Flower, C. and Johnson, V. (2004), ‘Completing the Globe: Tackling poverty and injustice in the North’, Participatory Learning and Action (PLA), 50: 107-116, IIED, London

Johnson, V. and Nurick, R. (2004), ‘Ranking Lines: Exploring local indicators of wealth and health’, Participatory Learning and Action (PLA), 50: 202, IIED, London

Johnson, V. and Nurick, R. (2003), ‘Developing Coding Systems to Analyse Difference’, PLA Notes, 47:19-24, IIED, London

Johnson, V. and Nurick, R. (2002) ‘Young Voices Heard: Young people leading projects in communities. Reflection and Review.’ The Saying Power Scheme, (funded by Millennium Award Scheme, Comic Relief), Save the Children, Birmingham

Nurick, R. and Johnson, V. (2001) ‘Putting child rights and participatory monitoring and evaluation with children into practice: some examples in Indonesia, Nepal, South Africa and the UK’, PLA notes, IIED, London, October

Johnson, V. and Webster, J. (2000) ‘Reaching the Parts…. Community mapping: Working together to tackle social exclusion and food poverty’, SUSTAIN – the alliance for better food and farming, London, with Oxfam, Oxford

Johnson, V. Ivan-Smith, E. Gordon, G. Pridmore, P. Scott, P. (ed) (1998), Stepping Forward: Children and young people’s participation in the development process, IT Publications, London

Nurick, R. and Johnson, V. (1998) ‘Towards community based indicators for monitoring quality of life and the impact of industry in south Durban’, Environment and Urbanisation, 10(1): 233-250, April

Johnson, V. (1996) 'Linking PRA-based Research with Policy', PLA Notes Number 24, October, IIED, London

Johnson, V. (1996) 'Introduction: Starting a Dialogue with Children', PLA Notes Number 25, February, IIED, London. Also guest editor for PLA Notes 25: Special Issue on Children's Participation.

Johnson, V. and Nurick, R. (1995) 'Behind the Headlines: The Ethics of the Population and Environment Debate', International Affairs, 71(3): 547-566, July

Johnson, V. Hill, J. and Ivan-Smith, E. (1995), Listening to Smaller Voices: Children in an Environment of Change, ActionAid, UK

Johnson, V, Hill, J, Rana, S, Bharadwaj, M, Sapkota, P, Lamichanne, R, Basnet, B, Ghimimire, S, Sapkota, D, Lamichanne, R, Ghimire, S (1995), Listening to Smaller Voices: Children in an environment of change (Nepal case study), ActionAid Nepal, Kathmandu

Johnson, V. (ed.) (1992) ‘Lifestyle Overload? Population and environment in the balance’, ActionAid, UK

Johnson, V. and Tomkins, R. (1989) ‘Fuelwood Scarcity in Swaziland’, International Journal of Ambient Energy, Vol 10, no. 2. Pp 59-102