Ben Edwards

• Professor, Child and Youth Development and Longitudinal Studies, Australian National University

Professor Ben Edwards is a Senior Fellow at the ANU Centre for Social Research and Methods. He is Principal Investigator of GENERATION, a new decade long study following over 15,000 students as they transition to life beyond school. He is Director of the ANU partnership with Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker (OxCGRT) subnational project that has collected detailed data on government policy responses to the pandemic.

He is scientific advisor to several internationally significant longitudinal studies (the Longitudinal Study of Australian Youth, Ten to Men and a new longitudinal of children in the Philippines). Previously at the Australian Institute of Family Studies, he had leadership role in the development of Growing Up in Australia: The Longitudinal Study of Australian Children, Australia's national longitudinal study of children of over 10,000 children and Building a New Life in Australia: The Longitudinal Study of Humanitarian Migrants. Internationally, Ben is an Executive member of the Society of Longitudinal and Life Course Studies (SLLS) and established the Refugees across the Lifecourse Group.

• –present Associate Professor, Child and Youth Development and Longitudinal Studies, Australian National University
• 2023–present Professor, Australian National University

• 2004 Deakin University, Doctor of Philosophy (Psychology)

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