Emma is primarily a cell biologist with research interests that cover a range of musculoskeletal diseases from osteoporosis to rare inherited neuromuscular diseases. Emma is a member of the Bone Research Society and is the academic for lead the Metabolic Bone Research Group based at Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital in Gobowen. The hospital unit has 12,000 patients a year and is developing research projects focused on drug-induced metabolic bone disease and diabetic bone disease. Emma has collaborated with researchers based at Keele University on projects focusing on osteoarthritis (being involved in clinical trials that advanced the development of stem cells based therapies for osteoarthritis) and on patients with inherited neuromuscular diseases, and with the University of Liverpool on projects related to ageing and osteoarthritis.