Dr Daniel Edwards
- Email: edwardsd@acer.edu.au
Daniel Edwards is an Adjunct Research Associate at the Centre for Population and Urban Research at Monash University. He currently works for the Australian Council of Educational Research (ACER) as a Senior Research Fellow in the Transitions and Post-School Education and Training research program.
Biography
Daniel completed his BA (Hons) in Sociology at Monash University in 2000. After graduating, he worked for two years in Victorian politics and for a year in London with a firm of surveyors before returning to Monash in 2004 to take up a research fellowship in the Centre for Population and Urban Research.
He completed his PhD, titled “Competition and choice: Determinants of access to university places via the Victorian school system” in 2007.
In January 2008, Dr Edwards was appointed to help develop ACER’s higher education research. His association with Monash continues with his Adjunct position within the CPUR and also through teaching within the Sociology Department. Dr Edwards coordinates the course Issues in Public Policy, which is part of the Masters of Applied Social Research, run by the Department of Sociology.
Research
Dr Edwards’ research encompasses a range of educational issues, with particular emphasis on access to university in Australia. He has a keen interest in all aspects of education policy and has explored issues relating to demand for higher education places (both amongst students and employers), student achievement and aspirations in the final years of schooling, and educational ‘choice’ theories. He has also had experience researching wider social issues regarding social stratification and demographic change.
Much of Dr Edwards’ research involves working with large data bases and matrices extracted from the various sources including the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations, the Australian Bureau of Statistics, and other government departments and organisations. Dr Edwards has also been involved in a number of evaluation projects involving widespread stakeholder consultation.
Dr Edwards has experience in conducting survey-based research, having designed administered a number of surveys and analysed larger national survey data such as the Graduate Pathways Survey (GPS), the Australasian Survey of Student Engagement (AUSSE), the Course Experience Questionnaire (CEQ) and the Postgraduate Research Experience Questionnaire (PREQ).
Publications
During his time at CPUR, Daniel contributed to a number of publications produced by the Centre, including Unequal Access to university places: Revisiting entry to tertiary education in Victoria (with Bob Birrell and Fred Smith) 2005 and From Place to Place: School, location and access to university education in Victoria (with Bob Birrell, Virginia Rapson, Ian Dobson and Fred Smith), 2002. Whilst working for CPUR Daniel was also involved in collating information for and writing various consultancy reports produced by the Centre for Population and Urban Research.
See http://works.bepress.com/daniel_edwards/ for further details and links to recent publications.