Edwards joined the Open University as a lecturer, working in the Palaeoenvironmental Change team.[8][9] She uses computer models to predict and study climate change,[10][11] with a particular interest in the impact on sea level rise of changes in the Antarctic ice sheet.[12] She studied how a glacier's grounding line (the point at which is separates from a continent's bedrock and floats into the sea) affects the rate of flow of glaciers, and estimated the effects of positive feedback.[13][14] In 2017 Edwards joined King's College London as a lecturer in geography.[15] She will be a lead author for Chapter 9 (Ocean, cryosphere, and sea level change) of the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.[16]
In 2014 she gave a TEDx talk at CERN, How to Love Uncertainty in Climate Science.[21] After fights between climate scientists and sceptics on Twitter in 2014, Edwards was part of a dinner party discussing how they could calm the debate.[22] The dinner included David Rose and Richard A. Betts, and Edwards was the only woman.[22] In 2015 she was celebrated as one of twenty women "making waves" at the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference.[23] She won the 2016 British Science AssociationCharles Lyell Award for Environmental Sciences.[13][24] She discussed how computer models can be used to predict ice sheet collapse and how to communicate uncertainty.[24] In 2017 she was profiled in the HuffPost Australia's Breaking The Ice series.[25] She is a speaker at the 2018 Bluedot Festival.[26][27][28]
On 28 January 2021, Edwards took part in a panel event of international experts called Climate Change: Why should we care?, organised by the Science Museum Group.[35]
↑"Pioneering urban meteorologist is the first female recipient of the Symons Gold Medal". Royal Meteorological Society. 7 June 2021. Retrieved 7 June 2021. Awarded as an outstanding climate scientist who has been a leading and highly respected communicator of climate science for over a decade. She has set the standard internationally for pro-active, open and objective communication with the public on climate change and its scientific basis and has built a huge reputation for clarity and as a trusted voice of authority.
