Jocelyn joined the Adcock lab in the winter of 2021 and defended her PhD in Spring 2025. She is now continuing as a postdoc in the Adcock lab.

Her PhD research was on how tail docking lambs impacts their social development through social network analysis and behavioral monitoring. She also examined how tail docking affects wound healing, disease risk, short and long term pain development, and the pain sensitivity of the next generation.

Jocelyn is from the west suburbs of Chicago, Illinois and earned her B.S. in Psychology with a minor in Biology at DePaul University. After graduating, she completed two internships at the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago. Prior to her arrival in Madison, she was a research assistant at the Brookfield Zoo evaluating zoo animal welfare. In this position, she conducted studies examining how visitors impact primate behavior, the influence of giraffe social housing on stereotypic behavior, how preference assessments can be used as a tool to evaluate environmental enrichment, among many other studies.

Follow her on Twitter @AnimalWelfarist