Bridget is a Principal Scientist at UKCEH and leads the inter-disciplinary and multi-partner Environment and Rural Affairs Monitoring and Modelling Programme (ERAMMP) funded by the Welsh Government. Bridget is the current president of the British Ecological Society and is a Member of the EU Mission Board for 'A Soil Deal for Europe'.

Bridget was awarded Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for her Services to Soil and Ecosystem Sciences in 2023 and the Marsh Award for her Climate Change Research by the British Ecological Society in 2016. 

She sits on a wide range of number of advisory boards both national and international for governments and research organisations and is a Trustee for Rothamsted Research and the Ecological Continuity Trust. She served as the Specialist Adviser for the UK Parliamentary Inquiry into Soil Health in 2016.