Her work aims to understand how learning and decision making are shaped by natural selection, using an integrated approach drawing from behavioural ecology, cognitive ecology and evolutionary ecology. She first studied animal innovation during her doctoral work at McGill University on the costs and benefits of innovative foraging behaviours in birds. This research led her to a postdoctoral fellowship at Université du Québec à Montréal, where she studied social foraging games in small passerines. She then joined the Edward Grey Institute of Oxford University as a postdoctoral fellow, working on fitness consequences of individual variation in innovativeness and learning. Her current research examines the links between information use, personality and sociality in wild avian populations.