Emma is currently the Director of national education charity Thoughtful, the Society for Philosophical Enquiry. Prior to joining Thoughtful she was co-founder and co-CEO of The Philosophy Foundation, Emma running every aspect of the charity, taking it into the SE100 Index (top 100 Social Enterprises in the UK) in 2016. Emma was named as one of the top 100 Women in Social Enterprise in 2017 and 2020 was also highly-commended for her leadership role in the Social Enterprise 100 Awards. She is President of SOPHIA: The European Foundation for the Advancement of Philosophy with Children.
Emma is a Non-Executive Director of Thinking Space CIC, she has also been a business mentor for the Young Foundation’s Accelerator Programme and is on the Advisory Board for the Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science at the LSE.
Emma has been an invited Keynote and Speaker at many national and international conference, including the PESGB Conference, Centre for Engaged Philosophy at the RSA, Bologna University, International Council for Philosophical Inquiry for Children, and the Victoria Association of Philosophy in Schools.
She has been widely interviewed about her work doing philosophy in schools including by Cranfield University and Aeon magazine.
Emma was awarded an MBE for services to innovation in the 2020 New Year Honours.