Dr Daniel Edwards
Daniel Edwards is a Research Fellow in the Centre for Population and Urban Research as well as a subject coordinator and a PhD student within the Department of Sociology at Monash University.
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 his current position. His current work involves research into school, university and other education sectors, as well as analysis of demographic and socioeconomic trends in Australia. Daniel also coordinates the course Issues in Public Policy, which is part of the Masters of Applied Social Research, run by the Department of Sociology at Monash.
Research
Daniel's research interests include education related issues such as school student aspirations and achievement, educational choice and education policy, as well as wider social issues regarding social stratification and demographic change.
His work involves providing advice on a wide range of issues to government departments, universities, schools, businesses and social service providers. Much of this research involves working with large data sources and matrices extracted from the Census and other datasets provided by the Australian Bureau of Statistics, government departments and private clients. He has also conducted survey-based research for CPUR clients.
His PhD thesis explores the increasing competition in the school education market in Victoria and the influence of this competition on pathways to university.
Publications
Daniel has contributed to a number of publications produced by the Centre for Population and Urban Research, 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.
He has written for People and Place and has presented his work at a number of national and international conferences.
Daniel has also been involved in collating information for and writing various consultancy reports produced by the Centre for Population and Urban Research.