Timothy P. Williams, MSW, MSc, PhD

Specializes in child rights, protection, and education

Tim is an Assistant Professor of Global Practice at Boston College School of Social Work.  His research interests focus on the systems that perpetuate inequalities and the experiences of those affected, particularly children.

Over the last 15 years, he has authored and co-authored more than 70 academic articles, reports, and book chapters in education, child protection, and health. This work has been published in  The New England Journal of Medicine, World Development, Comparative Educational Review, and The Washington Post, among others.

Tim’s recent research and consultancy work includes: providing technical support to UNICEF’s child protection system strengthening work; writing an influential report for the International Committee of the Red Cross on the consequences of urban warfare on children; co-authoring a systematic evidence review for the Safe Futures Hub on interventions to prevent child sexual violence in low- and middle-income countries; and drafting a working paper on the politics of education policy adoption for the World Bank’s World Development Report.

His notable research also includes a decade-long study on education policy in Rwanda, in which he received the 2020 Dudley Seers Prize for best paper in The Journal of Development Studies as well as the 2018 Joyce Cain Award from the Comparative and International Education Society of North America.

Timothy earned a Ph.D. in international development from the University of Bath, an MSc in public health from Harvard, and an MSW from Boston College. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and served as an honorary research fellow with the Effective States and Inclusive Development Research Centre at the University of Manchester.

More information on Tim’s work is available on his website: www.timothypwilliams.com