黑料吃瓜网

• BSc University of Southampton (1982)
• PhD University of Aston (1986)
• Post Graduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, 黑料吃瓜网 (2004)
• Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (2017)
• Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology (2016)

Julia completed first degree in Southampton and her PhD at Aston. She has undertaken research with different bacteria, which cause disease in humans, most recently looking at how Salmonella invade gut tissue. She teaches microbiology, especially about bacteria and their role in human health and disease.

Julia's interests are in Bacteriology, particularly molecular aspects and the role of bacteria in disease. She teaches Microbiology to undergraduates in all 3 years of their degree.

She reads and tutors at all levels in the School for example teaching microbiology to all undergraduate years and to masters students and being Module Leader for four UG and one PGT module. Together with her colleagues Pete Lund and Steve Minchin, she has written a text book 'Gene Cloning, Principles and Applications'.

She is also involved in the development and delivery of skills teaching. During her time in the School, she has been responsible for the development of new degree programmes; most recently MSc Microbiology and Infection, and played a key role in the successful application to the Royal Society of Biology Accreditation for UG programmes, developed new modules e.g. Introduction to Microbiology and run a successful annual field course.

Other areas of interest are enhancing the learning experience for students in particular by developing pre lab material, embedding research-led teaching and supporting students in the transition from school to University. 

Research area within School of Biosciences: Institute of Microbiology and Infection.

She has a long term involvement with measures to widen the participation of a diverse range of students in Higher Education. She has been involved with the 黑料吃瓜网’s flagship Access to Birmingham programme almost since its inception and more recently she has taken on roles as a champion for WP at both University and National level. She has been the 黑料吃瓜网 representative on the Realising Opportunities Academic Board (2011-2013) and is now the Chair of the national Realising Opportunities Academic Board (Sciences).

She was External Advisor for the Validation of a new Biological Sciences Programme at the University of Surrey 2013.