Emily Gray is a feminist scholar of gender, sexuality and education, with 2 interconnected programmes of work: inequalities for LGBTIQ+ educators in schools and higher education, and everyday sexisms in higher education. As a researcher, Emily's work is theoretically informed and grounded in critical epistemology. As a queer feminist, she works collaboratively and seeks to understand and address complex and pressing problems relating to gender and sexuality diversity and everyday sexisms. Emily's work as an academic is driven by a feminist ethic of care that seeks to make a generous, generative and impactful contribution to research and to engage the wider public in innovative and participatory ways. 

Emily's work, with Mindy Blaise (ECU) and Jo Pollitt (ECU) as co-founder and co-convenor of #FEAS Feminist Educators Against Sexism has had national and international impact. #FEAS is a feminist collective committed to disrupting everyday sexism within the academy and other places. Using humour, irreverence, public pedagogies, and collective action, #FEAS generate a consciousness raising for our times that is responsive, affirmative, experimental, and insistent. What makes #FEAS distinctive is the relationship between academia, activism and the arts. #FEAS have developed creative interventions into everyday sexisms that are performed, exhibited and co-created. #FEAS publish 'traditional outputs', including journal articles, and develop creative works including live public performances in theatres. In 2023 #FEAS received the Australian Association for Research in Education, Raewyn Connell Award, from the Gender Sexualities and Cultural Studies SIG, an award that recongnises significant leadership in and contribution to building the fields of sexuality, gender and queer research in education within the Australian context. 

With Mindy Blaise (ECU) and Jaqueline Ullman (WSU) Emily is Co-editor of the Gender and Education journal. 

Emily is Co-chair, with Carli Rowell (University of Sussex) of the international feminist Gender and Education Association, a registered charity in the UK.

With Drew Pettifer (RMIT University), Emily co-convenes the LGBTIQA+ Research Network, an interdisciplinary network run by and for researchers who identify as LGBTIQA+ or who research in the field.