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Julia Moreland is a Lecturer in Social Sciences at Moray College, University of the Highlands and Islands (UHI). She has researched the use of the Internet in Healthcare and, while still an undergraduate student, was invited to an International Conference at Harvard Medical School to give a presentation on her research.

In 2012, while in her final year in Social Sciences as a mature student at UHI, she was invited to give a presentation at the Medicine 2.0 conference, held at Harvard Medical School. Her presentation topic was her research on how online health information was used by patients. It aimed to show the potential impact of online tools on GP and health providers. Julia said of her experience "This is like winning the academic lottery for me. I am totally excited." She subsequently contributed to conference in Brazil in 2013 and Canada in 2014 and went on to publish research on this topic. She is currently undertaking a PhD.

Julia is also an active Trade Unionist and chairwoman of EIS FELA in Moray.