Professor Richard Edwards

Richard Edwards is Emeritus Professor within the Faculty of Social Sciences. He has researched and published extensively on adult and further education, and lifelong learning drawing upon post-structuralist and socio-materialist theories. His academic background was in the areas of philosophy and history before beginning a career in adult education. Prior to joining the University of Stirling in 2001, he worked at the Open University, UK. Between 2006 and 2013 he was Head of the School of Education. He retired in 2016, but his publications live on and he is active on social media.

Richard Edwards is Emeritus Professor of Education and has researched extensively in the areas of post-school education and training and lifelong learning. Specific projects have focussed on literacies for learning, curriculum making, the use of new technologies in higher education , and citizen science and learning. He is particularly interested in theory development in education and draws extensively on post-structuralism and actor-network theory.