Julia Scott-Stevenson is a researcher and maker of interactive and immersive media. As a University of Technology Sydney Chancellor’s Research Fellow, she uses practice-led research to explore how immersive media can engage audiences with the climate crisis. Julia directed the collaborative, generative-AI-based screen experience Collective Visions, which showed in its first iteration in the UTS Data Arena during Climate Action Week Sydney in May 2024..

Julia is also lead researcher on MIT Open Documentary Lab’s partnership with IDFA DocLab R&D Network. She authored the 2024 report on embodiment, AI and the perception of the real, and continues as lead researcher in the current investigation into XR distribution. Julia chairs the International Advisory Board for Immersive Arts – a £6 million, three-year scheme supporting immersive makers across the UK, she sits on the advisory board for Frame Documentary, Australia’s first organisation supporting non-fiction artists working with emerging technologies, and she is a member of Create NSW’s Artform Board for Digital, Experimental, Immersive and Light Art.

Julia was creative producer of 'Privy To', an XR project exploring privacy rights, which was one of 14 projects globally showcased at CPH:DOX's 2021 Inter:Active Exhibition. She holds a PhD in interactive documentary and social impact, and she mentors and speaks on XR, nonfiction and AI internationally..