Lucy is the Teaching Program Director for the Self-Regulating Health Professions (Audiology, Disability, Exercise Science/Physiology, Nutrition and Dietetics, Speech Pathology) in the College of Nursing and Health Sciences at Flinders University. She is a registered physiotherapist and is the Academic Lead for Physiotherapy at the university. She is an experienced educator in physiotherapy, and loves to find new and interesting ways to teach students about physiotherapy and health.

Lucy is a member of the Caring Futures Institute and the Sport, Health, Activity, Performance and Exercise (SHAPE) Research Centre. She is interested in investigating ways to help children and adults to sit less and move more to improve their health. She has research skills in the use of accelerometers to objectively measure activity. Lucy is currently completing projects investigating activity of older adults in residential care, an intervention to reduce sitting time in people with type 2 diabetes, and activity of older adults during walking sports. Lucy has supervised Honours, Masters by Research and PhD students to completion and is registered to supervise students both as Principal and Associate Supervisor.