Bridgette has an undergraduate degree in Animal and Veterinary Bioscience from the University of Sydney, where she completed her honours research in Alpaca meat. She is now a third year PhD student, at Charles Sturt University, working on her thesis entitled ‘Verification of production systems of origin for beef and lamb.’ Her work focuses on discriminating between grain and grass production systems using Raman Spectroscopy. Bridgette is also a student member of the Graham Centre and works closely with the Meat Science team in NSW Department of Primary Industries based in Cowra.