Dr McNaughton's current position includes being a Director of the Woolf Fisher Research Centre which opened in October 1998. This is an externally funded centre developing research-based educational programmes in communities with low resources in South Auckland. He leads a research team (of colleagues, post doctoral and doctoral students) in studies of effective educational interventions for schooling success. The centre has a focus on Maori and Pacific Islands childrens educational achievement.
In 2014 he was appointed Chief Education Scientific Advisor for the Ministry of Education
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