Biography
Emma Bailey is a Research Assistant in the Complexity Economics group at the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET Oxford). She is currently working on the MacroCB7 project to use macroeconomic agent-based modelling to analyse policies from the UK's 7th Carbon Budget. This work is in partnership with the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, funded by the Oxford Agile Initiative.
Alongside this project, Emma is completing her PhD at the University of Exeter. Her doctoral research uses agent-based modelling and complex systems science to model sustainable transformations, specifically reducing meat consumption. Emma is interested in improving behavioural realism in models of societal change, her doctoral work highlights the importance of habitual and social behaviours in dietary change. Emma was a lead coordinator for the Global Tipping Points Report 2023, contributing to the Positive Tipping Points Section and Food Systems Chapter.
Emma achieved an MMath (hons) - integrated Masters in Mathematics - at the University of Bath in 2020.
