Rebecca graduated as a veterinary surgeon from the RVC in 2003. She worked for 16 years in clinical practice in various roles, predominantly involved in Thoroughbred racing and breeding in the UK and Middle East. During which time she worked as a treating veterinarian at Lingfield Park Racecourse and the Olympic and Paralympic games in London, and was head of veterinary services at the Rashid Equestrian and Horseracing Club in Bahrain. In 2018 she returned to the RVC, to undertake a PhD investigating the epidemiology of disease and injury in Thoroughbred foals and yearlings, which she was awarded in July 2022. She is currently a Horserace Betting Levy Board funded Post-Doctoral Research Fellow investigating early-life determinants of performance and the economics of Thoroughbred breeding and the epidemiology and genetics of congenital muskuloskeletal dissorders in neonatal Thoroughbreds.