Brading earned a bachelor's degree in physics and philosophy from King's College London in 1992.
at St Hugh's College, Oxford in 2001, with the dissertation Symmetries, conservation laws, and Noether's variational problem.
[4] Brading is the author of Émilie Du Châtelet and the Foundations of Physical Science (Routledge, 2019).
[5] With Elena Castellani, she is co-editor of Symmetries in Physics: Philosophical Reflections (Cambridge University Press, 2003).
[6][7][8] She is the coauthor of Philosophical Mechanics in the Age of Reason (with Marius Stan, Oxford University Press, 2023).