Julia Barrott

Julia Barrott is the Impact and Learning Officer for SEI and a Research Fellow at SEI Oxford.  

As the institute’s Impact and Learning Officer, Julia supports SEI’s Operations Director and Head of Knowledge Management to promote organizational learning and galvanize environmental sustainability within SEI. Julia leads the delivery of SEI’s internal Annual Results Report, operationalizes and follows-up on SEI’s Results and Learning Framework, supports SEI’s Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) facility, and leads implementation of SEI Environmental Policy. This includes co-leading the development of SEI’s TR2AIL tool, which enables individual users to track, reflect upon, and reduce their air travel. 

This position builds on Julia’s past work on capacity building, research, and tool development to advance climate services, knowledge management, and knowledge brokering for climate action. This included supporting the weADAPT platform; fostering collaborations and interoperability between online climate-related knowledge platforms globally; and developing new tools, systems and approaches to make knowledge more findable, useful and usable. 

Julia joined SEI Oxford in December 2015 and holds an MSci in Environmental Geoscience from Imperial College London and a DPhil in Earth Sciences from the University of Oxford. Her postgraduate research focused on reconstructing past climate change in northwest Africa from speleothem geochemistry.