Email: j.garfield@aston.ac.uk

Joy is a Senior Teaching Fellow and the Operations and Information Management Learning and Teaching Convenor.  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)

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, Programme Director BCIT (2022 - 2024), and OIM Learning and Teaching Convenor (March 2024 - to date), Aston Business School, Aston University, Birmingham.

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.