Emlyn is Senior Lecturer in Classical Studies at the Institute of Classical Studies, University of London. He was Assistant Director for Archaeology at the British School at Rome from 2021–23, and is Research Affiliate at the Australian Archaeological Institute in Athens, Research Fellow at the British School at Rome, an Honorary Fellow at Macquarie University and an Elected Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries London, Royal Historical Society and Higher Education Academy, UK. He was named 2023 Early Career Researcher of the Year at Macquarie University and has accumulated over $950,000 in competitive funding and awards for his research, including from the British Academy, Leverhulme Foundation, Australian Academy of the Humanities, British School at Athens, and the Australasian Society for Classical Studies. He also serves on several research and academic boards for UK Research & Innovation (UKRI), the University of London, and Institute of Classical Studies.

Emlyn co-directs the Falerii Novi Project, including major excavations at the Roman urban centre of Falerii Novi in central Italy. He also directs a survey project in the Cyclades, investigating the production of wine and oil, with a focus on the identification and distribution of agricultural technology and knowledge in the Classical to Late Antique eras. He is an active collaborator with the Antiochia ad Cragum Archaeological Research Project (Gazipasa, Turkey) and has previously worked at Delos, the Athenian Agora and Acropolis (Greece); Pompeii, Oplontis, Carsulae and in Sicily (Italy).

Emlyn is also a passionate student equity advocate, practitioner and researcher and has worked closely with widening participation and equity programs at the University of Technology Sydney.

PhD supervision current:

Bertie Handley, Death in the suburbs: developing a new interdisciplinary methodology at Falerii Novi to study funerary landscapes (Principal Supervisor, University of London [AHRC LAHP fully-funded CDA]).

Aksel Breistrand, Movement and connectivity in the Middle Tiber Valley (Principal Supervisor, University of London).

Kim Bell, The identity of children in the community in Asia Minor during the early Roman Empire (Principal Supervisor, University of London).

Elizabeth Koluk, A diachronic analysis of key political structures from the Late Republican era to the Principate based on GIS and space syntax methodologies (Co-supervisor, University of London).

PhD supervision completed:

Stephen Kay, The investigation of Roman urbanism in Italy through archaeological geophysical prospection (Principal supervisor, University of London, 2025).

Masters supervision completed:

Sarah Williams: “The birth and afterlife of wine cooling vessels in Classical Greece” (University College London, 2025).