Julia Shaw (psychologist)

Julia Shaw (born 1987) is a German-Canadian psychologist and currently a senior lecturer in criminology at the London South Bank University.

Shaw was born in Cologne, Germany but grew up in Canada. There she studied psychology at the Simon Fraser University and completed her studies with a bachelor's degree. Afterwards she moved to the Netherlands to pursue a master of science in psychology and law at Maastricht University. Back in Canada she continues her studies at the University of British Columbia and was awarded a PhD in psychology. After working as a lecturer at the University of Waterloo and the University of British Columbia Shaw moved 2013 to the United Kingdom to assume a position as lecturer in forensic psychology at University of Bedfordshire. 2015 Shaw switched to the London South Bank University to become a senior lecturer in criminology.

Among others Shaw researches false memories and in 2015 she published together with Stephen Porter a study in which she succeeded to get 70% of the participants to falsely remember a crime, they've committed in their past.

Shaw is regular contributor to the MIND guest blog of the Scientific American and in 2016 she published her first book entitled The Memory Illusion.