Christine is Professor of Animal Welfare at the Royal Veterinary College. Widely respected for her scientific work on animal welfare, she is the recipient of the 2001 Prince Laurent Foundation prize for equine welfare, the 2012 Universities Federation for Animal Welfare medal for outstanding achievements in animal welfare science and the 2016 EAAP medal for scientific achievement. She is a member of the Morris Animal Foundation animal welfare advisory board. She wrote and presented an acclaimed and accessible BBC Radio 4 series on animal ethics “Would you eat an alien?”