Hi there! Thanks for visiting my personal academic website!

I am the Deputy Director and a Senior Policy Fellow at the Development Policy Centre and a Fellow in the Arndt-Corden Department of Economics at the Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University. I am also a Principal Investigator of the Small Firm Diaries and the Remittance Diaries, and an invited researcher at the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

My research lies at the intersection of development economics, labour economics, international trade, and the environment, and I mostly work on Indonesia, Australia, and the Pacific.

At the Crawford School, I lead the ANU’s migration work under the Australian Government’s Pacific Research Program, including the Pacific Labour Mobility Survey with the World Bank and the impact evaluations of the Seasonal Worker Program and Pacific Labour Scheme using the PLMS. I also co-convene the ACDE Seminars, the Pacific Update, and the labour mobility webinars, and edit Asia and the Pacific Policy Studies (AE) and the Development Policy Centre Discussion Papers.

I returned to the ANU in 2019 from academic appointments in the Department of Economics at Dartmouth College and the Department of Earth System Science and the Centre on Food Security and the Environment at Stanford University. I worked in the Australian Government—mostly on federal budgets, school funding reforms, social investment, and impact evaluation policy—global development, finance, and other odd jobs before that.

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I am a single parent with two amazing daughters, Fleur and Willa. Both were born in the US while I was a postdoc. I was born in Sydney, but did most of my growing up in Brisbane, after my parents moved to here from Northern Ireland. Both didn’t go to uni, so I’m also technically a “first-gen” but that’s not particularly novel here in Australia.

I am happy to talk to colleagues and students about balancing parenting with study, work, and leisure, going from policy to academia, separation, mental health (e.g., generalised anxiety, depression), or any of my other non-linear journeys.

Contact

on campus in 7 Liversidge Street

ryan dot edwards at anu dot edu dot au

ryanbarclayedwards at geemail dot com

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