Research output per year
Research output per year
United Kingdom
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Joy is a Senior Teaching Fellow and the Deputy Head of Department for the Business Analytics and Information Systems Department. She has over 20 years of teaching experience at a number of UK universities at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
Joy’s research focuses on the early stages of systems development, particularly systems modelling, requirements engineering, business IS/IT alignment and also the learning and teaching of information systems in higher education.
Digital Apprenticeship
Introduction to Business Organisations (BNI101)
Undergraduate modules
Agile Practices in IT and Management (BN2220) - Module leader
Managing IT in a Global Context (BN3380) - Module leader
Postgraduate modules
Effective Management Consultancy (BNM817 and BNM817J)
Effective Management Consultancy (BNK517) (October and May cohorts) - Module leader
Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (2019)
Member - Society for Research into Higher Education (SRHE)
Governing Body member - Society for Research into Higher Education (SRHE) - January 2025 - December 2027
Associate member - Association for Learning Technology
Member - Women’s Higher Education Network (WHEN)
Member - ACM SIGMIS (Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Management Information Systems)
Member - British Academy of Management
September 2021 - Present: Senior Teaching Fellow in Business Information Systems, Aston Business School, Aston University.
- Deputy Head of Department - Business Analytics and Information Systems (March 2025 - To date)
- OIM Learning and Teaching Convenor (March 2024 - March 2025)
- Programme Director BCIT (2022 - 2024)
September 2013 - August 2021: Senior Lecturer (and course leader - 2014-2021), Worcester Business School, University of Worcester.
September 2012 - August 2013: Senior Lecturer and course leader, Wolverhampton University.
September 2011 - August 2012: Lecturer, Wolverhampton University.
February 2010 - August 2011: Academic Practice Research Officer, University of Birmingham.
September 2005 - August 2007 (part time): Lecturer, Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester.
September 2001 - August 2005: Lecturer (and course leader - 2003-2004), Newman University, Birmingham.
March 1998 - September 1999: Commercial underwriter and new business developer, Royal and Sun Alliance.
Nigel Slack Teaching Innovation Award - Singh, A. and Garfield, J. (2025) Understanding complex ambiguous problems using Soft Systems Methodology and empathic discourse in the classroom, Euroma Conference, Milan, 17 June 2025.
Best Presentation Award - Garfield, J. O’Hare, B. and Bell, V. (2020) Winning consumers and influencing them using social media: A cross generational impact case study, ICESM 2020, 22nd International Conference on Effects of Social Media, Istanbul, Turkey (online), 24-25 September 2020.
Best Paper Award - Garfield, J., Warren, V. and Wiid, R. (2019) The role of Communities of Practice in creative projects, British Academy of Management (BAM), Aston University, Birmingham, 3-5 September 2019.
PhD, Informatics (Requirements Elaboration for System Co-development), University of Manchester
Sept 2004 → Jul 2009
PG Cert, Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, Coventry University
Sept 2001 → Jul 2002
MSc, Computer Science, University of Birmingham
Sept 1999 → Sept 2000
BSc, Geography, Coventry University
Sept 1994 → Jul 1997
External Examiner (Uzbekistan), University of Westminster
Nov 2024 → Nov 2028
PhD External examiner (Coventry University) - A Systems Approach to Environmental, Social and Economic Sustainability in Circular Economies.
Jan 2024
External Examiner, Sheffield Hallam University
Oct 2023 → Oct 2027
Research output: Chapter in Book/Published conference output › Chapter
Research output: Chapter in Book/Published conference output › Conference publication
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review