Julia Carroll completed her PhD in psychology at the University of York in 2001. She then completed an ESRC postdoctoral fellowship at York. She took up a lectureship at the Psychology department at the University of Warwick in 2004. In 2014 she joined a research centre at Coventry University, working at the interface of psychology and education, where she was promoted to Professor in 2016. Julia joined the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø School of Education in 2024