Emily Williamson

Academic philosopher specialising in aesthetics and philosophy of art. Experienced researcher across fields including philosophy, papyrology and linguistics. Methodical and detail-oriented with experience in data-analysis and proofreading.

Admissions Assistant at Central European University (2026 - 2026)

• Conducting interviews for prospective BA students alongside one faculty member

Teaching Assistant at Central European University (2023 – 2025)

Running weekly seminars and delivering lectures for BA courses: 'Ethics', 'Theories in Metaethics' and 'Ways of Knowing'. Explaining core philosophical topics to first-year students. Holding office hours. Grading assignments.

Student Assistant for project Papyrologischer Kommentar zum Galaterbrief at Department of Theology, University of Salzburg (2021 – 2022)

• Proofreading and editing chapters written in English
• Developing ideas with fellow researchers in weekly meetings
• Writing a chapter on the role of aesthetic judgement in translation

Proofreader at Students' Association, University of Edinburgh (2019 – 2020)

Proofreading the work of non-native English-speaking students, ranging from BA essays to MA dissertations. Meeting with students to explain edits. Received formal training in proofreading and editing.

Research Assistant at Department of Linguistics, University of Edinburgh (2018 – 2020)

Annotating data for the project Pragmatics of Temporal Reference. Using and developing in-depth understanding of syntactic structure and temporal relations.

Data Analyst at Department of Informatics, University of Edinburgh (2019 – 2019)

Analysing data, annotating multi-sentence questions with one of 36 discourse relations for the project AI Question Translation. Discussing annotations with other analysts to resolve disagreements.

PhD in Philosophy – Central European University (2022 - 2026)

MA in Philosophy – University of Salzburg (2020 – 2022)

MA (Hons) in Philosophy and Linguistics – University of Edinburgh (2016 – 2020)