Edmund Handby

Edmund Handby

Position: Graduated PhD Student
School and/or Centres: School of Politics & International Relations

Email: Edmund.Handby@anu.edu.au

Location: Level 3, RSSS Building, 146 Ellery Crescent

Thesis title: Evaluating Models of Conceptual Change

Edmund began his PhD at the School of Politics and International Relations in February 2018. He graduated from the ANU with an undergraduate degree in International Relations with first class honours, and is completing a Bachelor of Laws.

My research agenda, broadly conceived, is concerned with various questions and themes under the broad umbrella of methods in political theory, politics, philosophy, and economics, and the history of political thought. In pursuing this research agenda, I employ an interdisciplinary approach, drawing on principles from the history of political thought, quantitative political science, cognitive psychology, and politics, philosophy, and economics.

Supervisors: Distinguished Professor Keith Dowding (primary supervisor), Professor John Uhr (associate supervisor), and Dr April Biccum (associate supervisor).

Research Interests:

  • Political theory methods
  • History of political thought
  • Political representation
  • Politics, philosophy and economics
  • Political theory pedagogy

Handby, Edmund. Semantic Externalism and the History of Ideas: A Critical Review, Journal of the Philosophy of History (forthcoming).

Handby, Edmund. Assessing the Use of Intuitions in Contemporary Political Theory, The Journal of Politics (2022) vol. 84(3), pp. 1595-1606.

Handby, Edmund. Classroom Games to Teach Contemporary Political Theory, Journal of Political Science Education (2021) vol. 17(S1), pp. 23-31.

Handby, Edmund. The survival and tenure of Australian Attorneys-General, Commonwealth and Comparative Politics (2020) vol. 58(2), pp 162-183.

POLS1002 - Introduction to Politics

POLS1008 - PPE Integration 1

POLS1009 - Research and Writing in Politics

POLS2063 - Contemporary Political Theory (as convenor/lecturer)

POLS2119 - Ideas in Politics

POLS 2130 - Public Choice and Politics

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