Staff Profiles
Daniel Edwards
Senior Research Fellow
BA (Hons), PhD Monash
Daniel
Edwards is a Senior Research Fellow in the Transitions and Post-School Education
and Training research program at the Australian Council for Educational Research.
He was appointed in January 2008 to develop ACER’s higher education
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, 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. Additionally, he has experience in conducting survey-based research.
Daniel’s PhD thesis, completed in 2007, explored the increasing competition in the school education market in Victoria and the influence of this competition on pathways to university. Prior to joining ACER, he held a Research Fellowship at Monash University’s Centre for Population and Urban Research. During his time at Monash, he also coordinated the course Issues in Public Policy, which is part of the Masters of Applied Social Research, run by the Department of Sociology.