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Emma joined the University of Glasgow as a Research Associate on the GALLANT project, focusing on active travel work, and has been promoted to Research Fellow in 2024. Her projects include evaluating the walking and cycling bridge in Glasgow and community-based cycling programs. She won the Carnegie Research Incentive Grant to study the Clyde Metro and is currently participating in the Horizon Europe program in Porto to enhance public transport usage. Prior to this, Emma worked as a Research Associate at the MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, where her research involved evaluating environmental policies promoting active travel. She also has experience developing weight management interventions for high-risk groups and recently worked on evaluating low traffic neighbourhood schemes in London. Emma is co-convening the MSc Global Health module and lectures on the MSc Sport, Exercise Science, and Medicine course. She actively participates in committees related to behavioral nutrition and serves on the editorial board for the journal 'Active Travel Studies'. Emma holds a BSc (Hons) in Occupational Therapy from the University of Ulster, an MSc in Public Health from Queen’s University Belfast, and completed her PhD in 2018 at the Centre for Public Health at Queen’s University Belfast, focusing on physical activity interventions in deprived communities.