As a University of Technology Sydney Chancellor’s Research Fellow, she uses practice-led research to explore how immersive media can address the climate crisis. Julia directed the collaborative, generative-AI-based screen experience Collective Visions, which showed in its first iteration in the UTS Data Arena during Climate Action Week Sydney in May 2024.

Julia is also lead researcher on MIT Open Documentary Lab’s partnership with IDFA DocLab R&D Network. She authored the 2024 report on embodiment, AI and the perception of the real, hosted the 2024 IDFA panel on AI and doc titled ‘The Humans Have Entered the Chat’, and continues as lead researcher in the current MITxIDFA investigation into XR distribution.

Julia was creative producer of ‘Privy To’, an XR project exploring privacy rights, which was one of 14 projects globally showcased at CPH:DOX’s 2021 Inter:Active Exhibition. She holds a PhD in interactive documentary and social impact, and has taught, mentored and given talks on XR/VR/AR, nonfiction media and digital cultures at UTS, UWE Bristol (UK), AFTRS, the BBC, Dok Leipzig and more.