[1][5] Emily Shuckburgh has led the United Kingdom Research and Innovation (UKRI) centre for doctoral training on the application of AI to the study of environmental risks.

[7] Shuckburgh was a postdoctoral researcher at École normale supérieure in Paris from 2001 to 2003 and at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2005 as a visiting scientist, working in the areas of atmosphere and ocean dynamics.

[11] She joined the British Antarctic Survey in 2006 where she led the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) Ocean Regulation of Climate by Heat and Carbon Sequestration and Transports (ORCHESTRA) project.

She serves as co-chair of the Royal Meteorological Society climate science communications group and chaired their scientific publications committee.

[15] She has also written books, and was co-author of Climate Change for the Ladybird Expert series with the Prince of Wales and Tony Juniper.