Director of the Victorian College of Arts (University of Melbourne). 

Emma originally trained as a contemporary dancer performing for companies such as Tranz Dance Company in Hungary and for Rosalind Newman’s company in Hong Kong.

She has played a major role in developing dance science as a recognised field of study at university level, through her research, leadership and international teaching, as a founding partner of the National Institute for Dance Medicine and Science and a past-member of the Board of Directors and Past-President of the International Association for Dance Medicine and Science.

Emma teaches Contemporary Dance Technique, Exercise Physiology and related subjects at Trinity Laban and supervises undergraduate and postgraduate students as well as PhDs in areas such as arts and health, physiology, talent development, dance training and creativity.

She has led and co-led several large cross-institutional projects including most recently, a study into creativity and mental imagery, in collaboration with Plymouth University and Coventry University, and a large Conservatoires UK study into musician health funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.