Emma Cheatle is an architect and architecture researcher, senior lecturer as well as Director of Research and Innovation at the School of Architecture and Landscape, University of Sheffield. Her interdisciplinary research aims to examine the political, cultural and social implications of architecture and urban space, particularly through questions of domesticity, care, gender, health (maternity, disability and early childhood), decoloniality, and common rights. Her PhD thesis resulted in a monograph Part-Architecture: The Maison de Verre, Duchamp, Domesticity and Desire in 1930s Paris (Routledge) in 2017; her second monograph Lying in the Dark Room: Architectures of British Maternity (Routledge, 2023) examines the role of architecture and space in historic and contemporary constructions of the maternal body and maternity practices. She has also analysed feminist spaces in the writing of Simone de Beauvoir and bell hooks. In collaboration with Hélène Frichot (University of Melbourne) she assembled a major retrospective on the feminist theorist Jennifer Bloomer for the Journal of Architecture (2024); and serves as the UK Editor for the Bloomsbury Global Encyclopaedia of Women in Architecture 1960–2015 (2025, forthcoming).