Sorrel Langley-Hobbs graduated from The Royal Veterinary College, London (RVC). She gained her RCVS Diploma in Small Animal Surgery (Orthopaedics) in 1997 and her ECVS Diploma in Small Animal Surgery in 1999. She spent six months at the University of Pennsylvania before working at Cambridge University and then moving to the University of Bristol where she has been a Professor in Small Animal Orthopaedic Surgery since 2013. She was awarded the BSAVA Simon Award in 2012 for outstanding contributions in the field of small animal surgery. She has a particular interest in feline orthopaedics and runs a feline orthopaedic clinic at Bristol. She has co-edited a textbook on Feline Orthopaedic Surgery and Musculoskeletal Disease in 2009 and Feline Soft Tissue and General Surgery in 2013. She continues to publish and lecture widely on feline orthopaedics.