A Rhodes Scholar, Professor Edwards has held a Harkness Fellowship, based at Duke University in the United States, a Harold White Fellowship at the National Library; a Research Fellowship and a Visiting Fellowship at the Australian National University; a Visiting Scholarship at the John Curtin Prime Ministerial Library; a Visiting Professorship at the University of New South Wales, Canberra and a part-time professorship at Flinders University.

He recently gave a keynote address to an Australian Institute of International Affairs forum on Foreign Ministers 1972 – 1983. An edited version of his paper, on Senator Don Willesee, has just been posted on The Strategist, the Australian Strategic Policy Institute’s blog.