Edwin Atitsogbui is a PhD researcher at the University of Glasgow's School of Education. He holds a Master’s degree in Economics from the University of Ghana. His research focuses on early childhood education and its impact on future educational outcomes in Ghana, utilizing a quasi-experimental design.

Edwin has served as a Tutor in Economics and Statistics at Glasgow International College, University of Glasgow. Before joining the University of Glasgow, he taught and served as a research assistant at the University of Ghana Business School, where he primarily taught Health Economics and provided research support in the field of Health Economics.

Edwin has contributed to scholarly discussions on the impact of COVID-19, including co-authoring a book chapter titled The Effect of Pandemics on Trade: The Case of COVID-19. He has also worked on several projects for the International Growth Centre (IGC) at the London School of Economics as a Research Assistant. Furthermore, he has provided research support on language and livelihoods in Ghana for researchers at the University of Glasgow’s School of Education and the Centre for Research on Globalisation and Education Policies (GEPS) at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain.

Currently, Edwin works as a Research Assistant at the Robert Owen Centre for Educational Change, under the School of Education at the University of Glasgow. He is engaged in a project funded by GPE KIX and IDRC, which aims to understand why innovative education projects on gender equality and inclusion are not being scaled up in Ethiopia, Malawi, and Uganda.

He has published extensively on topics including education, skills development, and unemployment duration in Ghana, as well as the impact of multilingualism on the labor market in the country. In addition, he has a draft paper in which he estimated education inequality over a 10-year period and examined its effects on the labor market, including its spatial impact. Having worked with Fab Inc on developing AI products for education, he is also interested in exploring the impact of AI products on educational outcomes, particularly in developing countries. 

• GPE KIX and IDRC research grant. "Scaling-up Innovative Gender, Inclusion and Safeguarding Approaches: Evidence from Malawi, Uganda and Ethiopia" (Co-I, 2024-2027).