Laura Shaw has been a script editor on Emmerdale since 2007 and has been one of the show's series producers since 2018.
In April 2018, it was announced that then-producer Iain MacLeod would leave Emmerdale to become the new series producer of Coronation Street in June, following the sudden resignation of Kate Oates. It was then later announced that Laura and Kate Brooks would work as series producers on a rotational basis, with Jane Hudson as executive producer. Laura's first episode was transmitted 25th December 2018.