Emily’s main research interests are families, households and kin and social networks in later life, especially in relationship to health, associations between family life courses and health and well-being at older ages, and trends and differentials in later life health, disability and mortality. She has been awarded numerous UK and international grants including an ERC Advanced Grant (2013-2018). She currently leads an ESRC funded project on Families, households and health in ageing populations: Projections and Implications (2020–2023) and is a co-investigator in the Research Centre on Micro-Social Change (MiSoC; PI Emilia Del Bono).
Emily is also involved in collaborative projects on urban environments and mental health at older ages and on long-term care in Europe.
She is past Chair of the Population Investigation Committee, past President of the British Society for Population Studies, a and past Council member of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population. She currently serves on a range of national and international review committees and on the Editorial Board of the Journals of Gerontology (Social Sciences) and Population, Space and Place. Emily is a Fellow of the British Academy and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.