Julia is Co-Executive Director at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, where she has led projects on online radicalisation, terrorism, conspiracy myths and hatespeech. She is also the Leader of the Violent Extremism Lab at Oxford's Centre for the Study of Social Cohesion and a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Calleva Centre for Evolution and Human Science at the University of Oxford (Magdalen College). Julia is an award-winning and internationally bestselling author of several books, including The Rage: The Vicious Circle of Islamist and Far-Right Extremism, Going Dark: The Secret Social Lives of Extremists and Going Mainstream: How Extremists Are Taking Over.