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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.  

Research Interests

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.  

Teaching Activity

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

Membership of Professional Bodies

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

Employment

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.

Education/Academic qualification

PhD, Informatics (Requirements Elaboration for System Co-development), University of Manchester

Sept 2004Jul 2009

PG Cert, Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, Coventry University

Sept 2001Jul 2002

MSc, Computer Science, University of Birmingham

Sept 1999Sept 2000

BSc, Geography, Coventry University

Sept 1994Jul 1997

External positions

External Examiner (Uzbekistan), University of Westminster

Nov 2024Nov 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 2023Oct 2027

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