I am currently on leave from my British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship to spend the 2025–2026 academic year at the University of Notre Dame, while remaining an Associate Member of DPIR and a Research Fellow at Keble College. My work sits at the intersection of (sub)national regime change studies, historical political economy, and institutional design. My BA project uses mixed methods and leverages evidence from Latin America to comparatively explore how and why taxes, social policies, and market regulations vary inside countries.

My DPhil thesis is a study of central-local relations among China's domestic security agencies.

Lucy is a doctoral candidate in International Relations at St Antony’s College, University of Oxford. Her doctoral thesis explores how global gender equality norms travel and are implemented in post-conflict contexts, with a focus on Kosovo. The project examines how international commitments to gender equality have been implemented by international organisations, focussing particularly on women’s socio-economic empowerment.