Julia Shaw (born January 20, 1987) is a German-Canadian psychologist and popular science writer who specialises in false memories.

[6] She joined London South Bank University as a Senior Lecturer in Criminology in 2015, before becoming an honorary[7] Research Associate in Psychology at UCL in 2017.

[4] In one of her studies, she stated that in a controlled setting she was able to construct false memories of childhood events in 70% of participants using suggestive memory-retrieval techniques.

[20] A review in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung criticised its simplistic writing and felt that it only provided discussion points for small talk at parties.

[21] In July 2020, Shaw started to co-host the true crime podcast Bad People with Danish comedian Sofie Hagen, on BBC Sounds.

A review in The Guardian commented that it was "an impassioned attempt to bring decades of serious academic research out of the shadows" but criticised its use of terms interchangeably such as queer and LGBT+ which could lead to confusion.