Emma is a research associate and provisional psychologist at UWA. Her research is about the mental load and how it affects people's, particularly women's, wellbeing and career outcomes.

Emma researches "the mental load" (also known as mental labour). This refers to thinking work to achieve goals that benefit others (e.g., deciding what to cook your family for dinner or scheduling a meeting for your work team) that is disproportionately shouldered by women. Currently, she is working on a ARC Discovery Grant investigating whether the mental load is related to the leadership gender gap. This grant is in collaboration with Professor Gillian Yeo, Associate Professor Serena Wee, Assistant Professor Laura Fruhen, and Professor Julie Wayne.

Emma's PhD research investigated prosocial mental labour and its relationship with gender , leadership and work-family outcomes. Here, she developed a dual-domain measure of mental labour. This project was supervised by Professor Gillian Yeo, Assistant Professor Laura Fruhen and Associate Professor Serena Wee. To find out more, you can watch Emma's 3 minute thesis here.

Supervised by Dr Lisette Kanse and Associate Professor Serena Wee, Emma completed her Honours thesis at UWA in 2020. Her thesis investigated the relationship between work design and employee voice behaviour (i.e., speaking up with ideas or concerns) in virtual teams.