Postdoctoral Research Associate
Emily is an evolutionary morphologist, working at the intersection of archaeology, biological anthropology, and evolutionary biology. She is interested in quantifying patterns of shape variation and evolution, both in biological and cultural settings, and has been involved in research on the shape of micromammalian postcranial bones, the lower jaw of limbed vertebrates, carnivoran lower jaws, salamander pelves, and Cycladic figurines.
She studied Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Southampton (2019), during which she was also a Visiting Researcher at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa (2018), and worked predominantly on the faunal collection from Sterkfontein and the hominid collections from across the Cradle of Humankind. She completed an MSc in Quaternary Science at Royal Holloway University of London (2020) and was a 2019-20 Bedford scholar. Her PhD (Environmental Science, 2025) research was in the field of evolutionary biology, and was joint-hosted by the Natural History Museum, London and UCL and funded by the London NERC DTP.
As a Research Associate of the ‘Small Performances’ project, she will explore the variation of the shapes of the Baskerville punch faces and printed characters from Baskerville manuscripts.
She is interested in diverse topics, including morphological evolution, heritage science, vertebrate anatomy (across palaeoanthropology, archaeology, palaeontology, and biology), evolutionary morphology, Palaeolithic archaeology, palaeoenvironmental science, and digital archaeology.