Dr Emma Spiel (she/her) is NEDC’s Workforce Development Lead. Emma supports the NEDC team and facilitates implementation of the National Strategy by leading and consulting on workforce development strategy and initiatives to drive the development of a workforce of adequate size, skill, and diversity positioned across the system of care to meet the needs of all people at risk of or experiencing an eating disorder and their families/supports and communities.

Emma trained as a Clinical Psychologist and has held clinical and supervisory positions across private and public settings. She has led projects and activities aimed at supporting sustainable, integrated and evidence-informed service development initiatives, and draws on a skillset in implementation and evaluation to facilitate data-driven, strategic, and coordinated workforce development.

Emma has lived experience of an eating disorder and is deeply motivated to help build systems and services that support all people experiencing or at risk of an eating disorder to receive the care they need. She has a strong interest in the intersection between food, eating, bodies and gender, neurotypes and marginalised groups and identities and in the structural and systemic influences on people's experience of their body, and how workforce initiatives can help drive change in these areas.