About
Julia Ross has dedicated her life to social work, rising up the ranks to become a director of social services and chief executive of an NHS primary care trust.
She was national lead for social care at the Department of Health before moving into the field of technology and artificial intelligence.
She spent a decade as chief strategist (care and health) for PredictX, a company specialising in AI and predictive analytics.
Julia is currently chair of the British Association of Social Workers which has 22,000 members across the UK. She is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine Digi-Health Council, and chair of the Organ Donation Committee for the Isle of Wight NHS Trust.
In 2022, she published a memoir, Call the Social, about her career in the social work sector. She has since branched out into fiction with The Laughing Robot, a timely novel exploring the implications of AI for adult social care.
“I wanted to explore the very real questions we’re facing about the future of ageing and care in our increasingly technological world.
“Through Anna’s journey, readers will confront their own assumptions about what it means to grow old with dignity in a society that often seems eager to side-line its older people.”
— Julia Ross
Interview
Julia speaks to Andy McClenaghan, host of the Let’s Talk Social Work podcast, about the themes contained in The Laughing Robot…
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