Julia is Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience (CAWR), Coventry University, which she co-established. She has 30 years’ experience in international development, focusing on organic farming and food systems, during which she undertook seminal research on petroleum-scarce food systems in Cuba in the 1990s. She is currently developing a research programme on Quantum Thinking for Agroecology, and is Vice-Chair of the Biodynamic Agriculture Association.