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Lucy's research interests centre around animal behaviour, and more specifically an understanding of the relationship between behaviour and welfare. She is currently working on an BBSRC animal welfare initiative which is run jointly between the RVC, and Oxford and Bristol Universities. The part of the project she is involved in concerns using complex analyses to score the behaviour of domestic hens. Previously she studied decision-making processes in choice tests using captive starlings, was involved in the development of new methodologies for measuring both affective state and the stress hormone corticosterone in captive starlings, and investigated the rationality of decision-making in rufous hummingbirds.