Julie is a chartered architect with significant experience in professional practice, research and teaching. Working as an independent consultant, her work focuses on the influence of building and urban form on background conditions to promote comfortable, healthy environments, that encourage more sustainable and resilient urban practice. Julie is currently developing a planning framework to support climate responsive urbanism. This research is multi-disciplinary in its approach, drawing upon the expertise of architects, engineers, planners, geographers and climatologists, at both academic and practitioner levels.