Julia joined DSPI in 2024 as a DPhil Student in Social Policy. Her studies are very generously funded by the Barnett House-Nuffield Joint Graduate Scholarship.
Julia’s research focuses on social inequality, 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.
Julia completed her MSc in Sociology at Oxford with a distinction in 2022. In her MSc thesis, she explored the social origin pay gap among UK higher education graduates. 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. Her wider research interests include education, culture, media, values and beliefs, social history, and sociolinguistics.
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