He is especially interested in the role the environment plays in shaping normal and deviant biological and behavioural systems development and is the principal investigator on the ESRC/MRC funded English and Romanian Adoptees study. Edmund holds guest chairs at Ghent and Aarhus Universities and the University of Sussex. His is the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. He is a husband (Funke), father (Pascale and Julien), a lifelong Derby County supporter, soul music aficionado and a Roman Catholic. In 2016 he was elected Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences.