Emily graduated from Cambridge Vet School in 2007 then worked in small animal general practice as a primary-care veterinary surgeon. In 2015, Emily was appointed as Lecturer (and subsequently Senior Lecturer) in Veterinary Nursing Science at the School of Animal, Rural and Environmental Sciences at Nottingham Trent University (NTU). Emily developed and was course leader of the school’s first blended learning course, a BSc (top-up) in Veterinary Nursing Science. Whilst at NTU, Emily completed a Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice and was awarded Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (now AdvanceHE). In 2021 Emily joined the LIVE team at the RVC as a Lecturer in Veterinary Education.

Alongside her teaching Emily researches novel and non-invasive methods of monitoring body temperature and heat-related illness in companion animals. In 2018, supervised and mentored by Dr Dan O’Neill and Dr Anne Carter (SRUC), Emily and the “Hot Dogs” team were awarded a Dogs Trust Canine Welfare Grant to investigate the epidemiology of heat-related illness (heatstroke) in UK dogs using the VetCompass programme. In 2021, an additional Dogs Trust Canine Welfare Grant was awarded to the team to support the evaluation of the VetCompass Clinical Grading Tool for Heat-Related Illness in Dogs, for use in emergency veterinary practice.