Senior Research Assistant
Lucy is a Senior Research Assistant in the Research Facilitation and Delivery Unit at the University of Central Lancashire. She has a special interest in wellness, improving health and wellbeing, health screening and assessment, and illness prevention. Lucy has a degree in Psychology and a master’s degree in Health Psychology. She begun working at the University of Central Lancashire in 2015 as a researcher in the Allied Health Research Unit and later in the School of Dentistry. Lucy now has a dual role at the University. As part of the Research Facilitation and Delivery Unit, Lucy has worked on many different health-related research projects, including psychosocial care in major trauma, the health and wellbeing harms of interpersonal violence, and the screening and assessment of dysphagia. She also works as a Research Associate in the School of Community Health and Midwifery on the NIHR-funded ABA-Feed study, a multicentre randomised controlled trial evaluating a new method of infant feeding support. Additionally, she is Deputy Vice-Chair of the Health Ethics Review Panel. Lucy is a member of the Steering Group and Project Management Group, acting as the Research Associate on the project. Lucy contributes to all aspects of the study delivery. For more information, please visit: https://www.uclan.ac.uk/academics/lucy-hives or email LHives1@uclan.ac.uk .
