Dr Joy Garfield

Email: [email protected]

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, 22^nd 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.