Maude Ouellette-Dubé was awarded, together with her co-author Friederike Zenker, The Karen Dalke Early Career Prize for Excellence in Equine Research on June 5^TH 2025 during the Equine Cultures in Transition Conference hosted at the Manchester Metropolitan University. 

This prize is awarded by the scientific committee of the Equine Cultures in Transition Conference. The prize is in loving memory of Dr. Karen Dalke, who dedicated her life and career to improving the lives of horses. She was an active member of the equine social science community and an engaged supporter of the Equine Cultures in Transition Conference. This award has been created in her memory to bolster the careers of junior scholars and early career researchers specialising in equine-human ethics and wellbeing. The award recognises top quality scholarly work that represents solidarity with equines, as well as active academic community participation. The award recognises the importance of supporting emerging scholars, emphasising the importance of developing future generations of equine researchers. In 2025 the prize was awarded to Maude Ouellette-Dubé and Friederike Zenker for their collaborative work, as well as to Emily Haddy for her research. The prize was presented by Prof. Lynda Birke and Dr. Nora Schuurman.

Maude and Friederike collaborate to bolster philosophical research in equine studies and equine social science. They organised the international conference Discussing Equine Ethics: Taking Stock from Theory and Practice at the University of Fribourg in September 2022, they are currently in the process of writing a book titled Equine Ethics: a Philosophical Introduction and they presented the paper “Emancipatory Education for a Shared Equine-Human Community” at Equine Cultures in Transition 2025. Moreover, Maude’s paper “What are good multispecies relations?” published in Feminist Animal Studies (Routledge, 2023) provides a feminist ethics of care analysis of four kinds of equine–human relations: asymmetrical relations, relations of utility, work relations, and friendship.