[2][10] Bridle's research investigates climate change, focusing on a quantitative approach to helping transform food systems.

[2][12] Following her PhD, Bridle was a postdoctoral researcher at the Laboratoire d'Astrophysique of the Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP) in Toulouse and Selwyn College, Cambridge.

She leads the greenhouse gas and dietary choices open-source toolkit (GGDOT)[13][9] Bridle has supervised several PhD students.

[2] In 2003 Bridle was awarded a Royal Society University Research Fellowship (URF) for early career scientists which she held until 2012.

[14] A recipient of the Royal Astronomical Society's 2009 Fowler Award,[15] Bridle was nominated one of the "Top 10 UK Scientists under 40" by the Times Eureka Magazine in 2010.