Julia joined Nuffield in 2024 as a DPhil Student at the Department of Social Policy and Intervention. Her studies are very generously funded by the Barnett House-Nuffield Joint Graduate Scholarship.

Julia's current research focuses on social stratification, social mobility, and wellbeing in the UK. Her doctoral project, supervised by Professor Erzsébet Bukodi, examines the impact of upward social class mobility on mental health over the life course. Previous research projects focused on parental socio-economic status and children's education in Switzerland, the social origin pay gap among UK higher education graduates, social class and dialect variation in British television, sociodemographic factors and religious beliefs in Germany, and value change in Swiss state school curricula since 1838. Her wider research interests include education, culture, media, values and beliefs, social history, and sociolinguistics.

Julia completed her MSc in Sociology at Oxford with a distinction in 2022. Before joining Oxford, she obtained a BA in Social Sciences (major) and English Literature and Linguistics (minor) at the University of Zurich, where she worked part-time as a tutor and research assistant at the Department of Sociology. She also holds a BA and MA in Secondary Education and has had a professional career teaching German, English, and social studies in Switzerland. Outside of academia, she is passionate about the performing arts, visual media, literature, and creative writing.