Dr Peacock is Senior Research Fellow at the Woolf Institute, a research centre and charity affiliated with the University of Cambridge. Lucy joined the Institute in August 2024 after eight years at the Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations, Coventry University, at which she conducted her PhD and served four years as a Research Fellow. Lucy’s research interests include the role of religion in higher education, the experiences of minoritised religious groups and tackling religion-related hate crime and prejudice. Lucy has a background in monitoring and evaluation in the interfaith sector and has expertise in qualitative and quantitative methods.

Lucy led a 2022-23 research study alongside Dr Tiffani Riggers-Piehl (Assistant Professor of Higher Education, University of Missouri-Kansas City), supported with funding from INSBS, which explored how to foster Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) environments inclusive of belief diversity in UK and USA higher education. You can download a copy of the research report, ‘STEM and Belief UK university STEM students’ engagement in belief diversity, with comparisons across the US higher education context’ at https://pure.coventry.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/74221869/stemandbelief.pdf.