Emily has a BSc (Hons) in Palaeontology from the University of Portsmouth (2015 - 2018), in which her undergraduate thesis investigated the taphonomy of Toarcian (Lower Jurassic) ammonites from the Whitby Mudstone Formation, North Yorkshire. She then undertook a stand-alone one-year Masters degree at the University of Manchester (2018 - 2020) and received an MPhil in Palaeontology for a thesis that focused on a revision of Temnodontosaurus crassimanus (Ichthyosauria) from the Toarcian of Whitby, Yorkshire. In 2024, Emily completed a PhD at The Open University, funded by NERC through the CENTA Doctoral Training Partnership, focused on fossil insect assemblages associated with the Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event in northwest Tethys.
In August 2021, Dr Swaby was part of a small team which excavated the largest, most complete marine reptile skeleton ever unearthed in Britain, at the Rutland Water Nature Reserve. In July 2022, Emily was part of an excavation team which unearthed an Early Jurassic marine ecosystem at a newly found site at Court Farm near Stroud, Gloucestershire. In June 2024, she was also involved in the excavation of the largest dinosaur trackway site in the UK, located at Dewars Farm Quarry in Oxfordshire.
Emily is Communications Coordinator for the Geological Collections Group, and a member of The Palaeontological Association.
Publications
Swaby, E. J., Coe, A. L., Ross, A. J. 2024. A new cockroach (Blattodea: Rhipidoblattinidae) from the Toarcian (Lower Jurassic) of Alderton Hill, Gloucestershire, UK, and the earliest unequivocal occurrence of aposematic colouration in cockroaches. Papers in Palaeontology, 10, e1598. https://doi.org/10.1002/spp2.1598
Swaby, E. J., Coe, A. L., Ansorge, J., Caswell, B. A., Hayward, S. A. L., Mander, L., Stevens, L. G., and McArdle, A. 2024. The fossil insect assemblage associated with the Toarcian (Lower Jurassic) Oceanic Anoxic Event from Alderton Hill, Gloucestershire, UK. PLoS ONE, 19, e0299551. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0299551
Swaby, E. J., Coe, A. L., Hutchinson, D., Riva, L. Nel, A. 2023. A new Liassophlebiidae (Odonata: Heterophlebioidea) from strata close to the Triassic-Jurassic boundary in Somerset, UK. Historical Biology, 36, 2478-2484. https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2023.2261957
Swaby, E. J. and Lomax, D. R. 2020. A revision of Temnodontosaurus crassimanus (Reptilia: Ichthyosauria) from the Lower Jurassic (Toarcian) of Whitby, Yorkshire, UK. Historical Biology, 33 (11), 2715-2731. https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2020.1826469
