Professor Julia Race
Vice Dean (Academic)
Naval Architecture, Ocean and Marine Engineering
Personal statement
Prior to starting my academic career, I worked in industry for over 20 years, latterly in the pipeline industry for 7 years as an integrity consultant for GE Oil and Gas. In this role, I was responsible for providing fitness-for-purpose, remaining life and corrosion assessments for onshore and offshore pipelines. I have also worked as a materials engineer in the petrochemical and power generation industries involved with the operation, maintenance and design of chemical and power plant. My primary research interest, developed since my move to academia from industry, is in the use of pipeline infrastructure to deliver pathways to Net Zero – primarily in the transportation of carbon dioxide (CO2) for Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) schemes and hydrogen as a replacement for oil and gas in the energy mix. In this area my research topics have included: - material and specification requirements for CO2 and H2 pipelines, - techniques for conducting Quantitative Risk Assessments, including pipeline failure frequency and consequence analysis - hydraulic network design and developing system flexibility, techno-economics and wider economy impacts. My wider research interests include the modelling of structural damage and corrosion on structures, particularly relating to onshore and offshore energy infrastructure.
Publications
- Regional employment implications of deploying CO2 transport and storage to decarbonise the UK’s industry clusters
- Calvillo Christian, Katris Antonios, Race Julia, Corbett Hannah, Turner Karen
- Ecological Economics Vol 233 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108587
- Offshore wind-to-hydrogen : the impact of intermittency on hydrogen production and transport
- Summers Eoghan, Race Julia, Mignard Dimitri, Tian Mi, Almoghayer Mohammed Alaa
- Proceedings of ASME 2024 43rd International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering ASME 2024 43rd International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1115/omae2024-131833
- Strathclyde Engineering Scholars – equal outcomes for the most disadvantaged
- Salt Helen, Flockhart Gordon, Race Julia, Thomson Avril, Sypek Kaska
- Diversity Impact Programme Sharing our learning on improving diversity and inclusion in engineering higher education (2024) (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13367333
- Understanding and Addressing Labour Supply Constraints and their Impact on Efforts to Decarbonise UK Industry Clusters and the Wider Economy
- Katris Antonios, Calvillo Christian, Corbett Hannah, Gonzalez-Martinez Paulina, Turner Karen, Race Julia
- (2024)
- Boosting UK-wide value-added and employment without further demands on the public purse : the advantages of developing an export base for Scottish CO2 Transport and Storage
- Turner Karen, Katris Antonios, Corbett Hannah, Race Julia, Zanhouo Abdoul Karim, Karkoutli Anas
- (2024)
- Policy brief : Understanding jobs demand and displacement outcomes of decarbonising UK industry clusters
- Calvillo Christian, Katris Antonios, Corbett Hannah, Race Julia, Turner Karen
- (2024)
Professional Activities
- Ongoing meetings with OEUK, Scottish Government and Storegga
- Participant
- 1/2025
- Learner Station workshop - funded activity as part of British Council project between Strathclyde and Istanbul Technical University
- Organiser
- 29/4/2024
- The challenge of persisting labour supply shortages and constraints on decarbonising the UK’s industry clusters
- Speaker
- 8/3/2023
- Workshop with phase 1 CCUS cluster stakeholders
- Speaker
- 10/2/2022
- Initial meeting wiht reprsentatives of the Wood Group
- Recipient
- 2022
- Meeting with colleagues from AECOM
- Recipient
- 2022
Projects
- Strathclyde Engineering Scholars - Equal Outcomes for the most disadvantaged
- Sypek, Katarzyna (Principal Investigator) Flockhart, Gordon (Co-investigator) Race, Julia (Co-investigator) Thomson, Avril (Co-investigator)
- 31-Jan-2025 - 23-Jan-2025
- Permeation of Vintage Pipeline Materials in Hydrogen Environments - Phase 1
- Sillars, Fiona (Principal Investigator) Marrocco, Tiziana (Co-investigator) Race, Julia (Co-investigator)
- 27-Jan-2025 - 31-Jan-2025
- Empowering Early Career Researchers to advance maritime decarbonisation in Indonesia (International Science Partnerships Fund Early Career Fellowship)
- Kurt, Rafet (Principal Investigator) Gunbeyaz, Sefer Anil (Co-investigator) Race, Julia (Co-investigator) Turan, Osman (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2024 - 30-Jan-2026
- Hydrogen Training Course
- Bhagavathy, Priya (Principal Investigator) Badakhsh, Arash (Co-investigator) Race, Julia (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2024 - 30-Jan-2024
- Green Hydrogen Integration at Sullom Voe (EETF Hydrogen Innovation Scheme)
- Sillars, Fiona (Principal Investigator) Li, Jun (Co-investigator) Marrocco, Tiziana (Co-investigator) Race, Julia (Co-investigator) Roy, Sudipta (Co-investigator)
- 03-Jan-2023 - 31-Jan-2024
- Labour market and other wider economy challenges in decarbonising the UK’s industry clusters [LAB-CLUSTER] (IDRIC Wave 2)
- Turner, Karen (Principal Investigator) Calvillo Munoz, Christian (Co-investigator) Katris, Antonios (Co-investigator) Race, Julia (Co-investigator) Corbett, Hannah (Researcher)
- 01-Jan-2023 - 29-Jan-2024
Contact
Professor
Julia
Race
Vice Dean (Academic)
Naval Architecture, Ocean and Marine Engineering
Email: julia.race@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 3303