[5] The daughter of Michael Edwards,[6] she completed A-Levels in Physics, Chemistry and Maths at St Margaret's School, in Exeter.
[1] Her thesis investigated the production of Z bosons, detected by their subsequent decay to muons, using data collected at the Tevatron.
[17][18][19] Working with the Met Office, Edwards created educational resources about sea level rise for the 2017 United Nations Climate Change Conference ("COP23").
[21] After fights between climate scientists and sceptics on Twitter in 2014, Edwards was part of a dinner party discussing how they could calm the debate.
[22] In 2015 she was celebrated as one of twenty women "making waves" at the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference.
[34] On 28 January 2021, Edwards took part in a panel event of international experts called Climate Change: Why should we care?, organised by the Science Museum Group.