Course: Geospatial Social Science Analysis (2025)

Edward Goldring teaches quantitative research methods, alongside comparative politics, at the University of Melbourne. He was educated in the UK and US, and has taught in Australia, Brazil, Hong Kong, the UK, and the US. While working as a lobbyist in the UK before entering academia, Edward volunteered in the North Korean human rights area, and this helped inspire him to pursue a PhD related to authoritarian politics. Edward takes a pragmatic approach to research methods, drawing on whatever tools are necessary to answer theoretically interesting and policy relevant questions. This approach led Edward to draw on spatial econometric tools for various research projects, including to understand how democracy has (and has not) spread across the world. Edward has taught spatial econometrics at various universities, including at the IPSA-NUS Summer School in Sao Paulo. His work has been published or is forthcoming in journals including the British Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, and World Politics, as well as with outlets including Cambridge University Press and Cornell University Press. Edward is passionate about working with students to help them come up with appropriate research designs so that their work can have significant impact on academic and policy audiences.

You can read more about Edward here.