During nursing’s transition to a tertiary-qualified profession, Julia worked as a degree-qualified registered nurse at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in the major trauma centre’s busy Accident & Emergency Department. During this time, Julia also served as a part-time soldier in the Royal Australian Army Medical Corps. Joining NSW Ambulance in 2001, Julia has also witnessed the evolution of paramedicine as profession and the emergence of females in a previously male-dominated field. Her clinical experience has been across vastly contrasting settings: from busy metro, to regional centres, to remote towns in outback NSW.

Julia is currently the subject coordinator for CLS311 and acts as the Indigenous Academic Link for paramedic students at Bathurst campus. Whilst working as a casual academic Julia earned the Creativity and Innovative Teaching Award in the 2019 School of Biomedical Sciences Excellence Awards. Her areas of interest are the intrinsic and extrinsic factors affecting paramedic longevity, the challenge of remote paramedicine and its future as a distinct specialty, and barriers facing female paramedics past and present.