Emma has been a pivotal part of my team for the best part of a year. She’s creative, enthusiastic, unflappable and a lovely person to have around. She has an incredible work ethic and never settles for the easy option where a better path lies ahead. A competent self-shooter, she’ll be adding drone skills to her considerably production arsenal this year. In short, she’s great.

Seb Illis (Series Producer)

I was very lucky to team up with Emma to make an episode of BBC1’s Animals Behaving Badly. As an edit producer I came on board pre-edit to find a show that was already in great shape, thanks to Emma’s hard work and excellent judgement.

Emma scripted, directed and produced the edit for several sequences in my programme - and they’re standout films. Some were sync shoots she directed on location, another, a studio shoot which she ensured had the production values of the best bluechip. Emma is editorially on the ball - she clearly understands how to turn facts into an engaging story with a great narrative. She is full of creative ideas that take a story beyond the ordinary both in terms of visuals and editorial content. Both me and my editor found it a pleasure to put together the material she had directed, which was very well covered.

Emma is an extremely safe pair of hands and a real delight to work with, clearly with the ability to adapt her skills to a range of difference genres. I would wholeheartedly recommend her to anyone.

Emily Taylor, Producer, BBC NHU

Emily Taylor

As a field director and AP on Planet Earth II, Emma provided invaluable support to the crews filming on location, with a thorough knowledge of both the content of the production and the challenges of filming in tricky environments, she was an absolute pleasure to work with - invaluable asset to the production team.

Ryan Atkinson, Science, Expedition & Wildlife Cinematographer

I worked with Emma on the series Planet Earth 2. Emma was a very valued member of the team to successfully researched, arranged and directed a number of key shoots for the Islands and Mountains episodes. Emma was hard working, creative, robust and a good team player. She has a thorough knowledge of the television making process and is very good on location. Emma's keen interest in diving and climbing also means she has excellent experience and qualifications to lead complicated remote shoots. I would recommend Emma to anyone thinking of employing her and would be happy to give a reference.

Tom Hugh-Jones

Emma took on several of the sequences for ‘Islands’ looking after complex logistics for shoots in Madagascar, Komodo and the New Zealand Sub-Antarctic. This involved researching stories, setting up shoots to remote locations, writing risk assessments, dealing with complex permitting processes, liaising with fixers and scientists, and managing small teams on location.

Emma is savvy at directing / delivering a storyline and is also well-versed in technology. She's happy to get 'stuck in' with filming – whether that be operating a MoVi/Ronin-style system, recording sound, or filming additional camera. She has experience in digital and short-form film and directed & shot behind the scenes material and scientist interviews that were really useful for the web.

Emma is particularly at home in the mountains but can also work in jungle conditions, rugged terrain and is prepared to be bounced around at sea - she survived seasickness in the Southern Ocean! She is naturally very personable and gets on well with people on location – cameramen and scientists enjoy working with her. She’s game for anything and brought a huge amount of enthusiasm and fun to all of her Planet Earth 2 shoots, while also creating some stand–out sequences.

Elizabeth White, Producer 'Islands' (Planet Earth II)

It was my absolute pleasure to work with Emma over the 4 yard we were making Planet Earth 2. Emma proved herself to bean imaginative, resourceful, hard working and friendly presence during our filming and post production journey.

Emma field directed several of the sequences in the show and worked well to a brief and had a great imaginative flair for storytelling. She was tough in the face of really demanding remote field locations and all the camera crew reported how much she was a pleasure to work with. Emma also edit produced our making of segment which went on to be really well received by our viewers.

I would thoroughly recommend Emma to anyone, she would be a dedicated, experienced and positive addition to any film making team.

Justin Anderson - Director Planet Earth 2 Mountains BBC

Emma is a wonderfully committed, creative and effective content producer and communicator. She is also one of the few people talented enough to cross the divide between conventional broadcast television and all things digital. Calm under pressure, she doesn’t get distracted and focuses on delivering results, and projects, to tight deadlines. She uses her initiative, and has the rare talent of being able to work alone, or as a key member of a production team. But what really set Emma apart from many, is that she has an eye for how the creative and media industries are changing, and what impactful content will look like in the future. While she is at home shooting on location for blue-chip television, she has also acquired extensive experience in journalism, photography, video and programme production, and web publishing. Crucially that means Emma is skilfully able to tell short-form, or non-linear stories, across the web and social media. And she has a track-record of making such content under the greatest of pressures, yet still delighting the largest of audiences – having applied her talents to supporting and growing the BBC’s science and natural history genres – which includes some of the corporation’s most globally renowned, best-loved and commercially successfully brands. To survive in an increasingly innovative, competitive and fragmented media landscape, it’s no exaggeration to say modern content producers need people like Emma.

Matt Walker BAFTA-nominated digital creative. Winner of three Webby awards, and two Lovie awards, for best website, social media campaign and educational app. Former senior editor at New Scientist, BBC, and now Partner at Fact & Story (www.factandstory.com)

Matt Walker

I worked with Emma between Dec 2010 and Jan 2012 when she was a researcher on a two-part series I directed on animal intelligence. Memorable highlights of that time include filming a skateboarding bulldog on Venice Beach, Los Angeles and having Emma as part of the team. Emma brought a wealth of academic knowledge and considerable story-telling skills to bear; enabling us to craft the best possible sequences and make the most of our on-screen talent. Her relentlessly positive attitude and team skills made her a real asset on the production and the sequences she helped set up and work on helped the programme win a coveted award in our industry's biannual Wildscreen Film Festival. After our time working together Emma quickly landed a coveted role elsewhere in our department on Planet Earth II, a thoroughly deserved and highly sought after position which reflects her great attitude and considerable talents. I'd have no hesitation in working with her again.

Simon Bell