Emily is a Research Fellow at the European Centre for Environment and Human Health (ECEHH) with an interest in global nutrition. She has a background in nutrition and dietetic research and practice and is a Registered Dietitian (HCPC) and Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (ASPIRE).

Emily has an interest in sustainable food systems, the health, social and environmental impacts of global shifts in dietary patterns and, in particular, food source practices and how the consumption of locally produced food effects diet and health. She is currently based in the Global Health Research Group on Community Food for
Human Nutrition and Planetary Health in Small Islands (Global CFaH) which is a four-year project funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR). Emily has previously worked on the Community Food and Health Project (2017-2020) and the ICoFaN project (Intervention Co-creation to Improve Community-based Food Production and Household Nutrition in Small Island Developing States 2020-2022). Emily was also part of the Active Travel Synthesis Project, where she published papers on novel approaches to qualitative data synthesis. She has also contributed to reports for the World Health Organisation Collaborating Centre on Natural Environments and Health.