Emily is a mixed methods researcher focusing on the epidemiology of violence against children and violence prevention within schools. She is a member of the Child Protection Research Group (CPRG), the International Centre for Evidence in Disability (ICED), and the Gender Violence and Health Centre (GVHC).
Emily currently works on projects across CPRG and ICED. This includes a cluster randomised controlled trial and process evaluation of an intervention targeting the prevention of violence in primary schools in Tanzania as part of the Programme for Evidence to Inform Disability Action (PENDA), and formative research on a child protection intervention for children in kindergartens in Latvia. Emily was a key contributor to the Global Disability Inclusion Report. Emily is a staff PhD candidate, examining disability-inclusive school-based violence prevention.
Emily joined the LSHTM in September 2019. Prior to joining the LSHTM, Emily worked in project management in various NGOs focusing on improving child health.
Affiliations
Teaching
Emily is currently a seminar lead for the Foundations of Health Promotion module. She is also an Early Career Researcher (ECR) Rep for the Gender Violence and Health Centre. She has previously worked on the Global Mental Health module, the Researching Gender-based Violence Short Course, Disability Issues Short Course, and Adolescent Health Short Course.
Emily is interested in supervising MSc students on work relating to the prevention of violence against children, with a particular preference for systematic review or qualitative methodologies.
Research
Emily's research primarily focuses on how behaviour change interventions in schools can prevent violence against children, addressing inequities within violence prevention, and advancing the inclusion of children with disabilities within violence prevention efforts.
Her current projects include:
- A cluster randomised controlled trial and process evaluation of a school-based violence prevention intervention in Tanzania, examining the effectiveness for children with disabilities as part of the Programme for Evidence to Inform Disability Action (PENDA) project
- Formative research on a school-based child protection intervention for children in pre-primary education in Latvia
- Systematic review on school-based violence prevention interventions evaluated in randomised controlled trials (PROSPERO 2024 CRD42023463384)
- Systematic review on the exposure, impact, and responses to climate change hazards for people with disabilities (PROSPERO 2025 CRD420251164844)
- Scoping and umbrella review on the experiences of refugees with disabilities in the UK
Emily is undertaking a staff PhD, linked to the Programme for Evidence to Inform Disability Action (PENDA) project, which aims to synthesise evidence on the inclusion of children with disabilities in violence prevention interventions and examine disability-targeted violence.
Selected Publications
