Edgar was the first business school recipient of a Bright Futures Top Achiever Doctoral Scholarship.
[1] She completed a PhD titled Regulating for best practice in human resource management: The impact of the good employer obligation at the University of Otago in 2002.
Edgar also researches how human resource management is linked to sustainability and organisational performance.
[4] In 2019, Edgar co-authored research that showed the cost to organisations of lost productivity due to employee alcohol use could be up to $1.65 billion annually.
[10] Edgar's 2009 paper with Alan Geare and Ian McAndrew, "Workplace Values and Beliefs: An Empirical Study of Ideology, High Commitment Management and Unionization", was chosen as one of the 50 best articles out of 15,000 published in the field in 2009.