About
Joy is a Postdoctoral Research Associate and Lecturer in Landscape Studies in the Department of Architecture at the University of Liverpool.
Joy is currently carrying out the postdoctoral research project Feminist Cartographies, with residencies at Birmingham Botanical Gardens, The Museum of English Rural Life, and the Landscape Institute. The project maps women’s twentieth-century landscape architectural practice and brings this research into public-facing museum and educational contexts through creative pedagogies.
Joy also leads the Ecological Narratives MArch 5 studio at Liverpool School of Architecture, exploring ecological, political, and infrastructural systems through landscape-led design. Her wider research focuses on women and gender in landscape architecture history, with an emphasis on questions of professionalisation, collaboration, and interdisciplinarity, drawing on feminist and social-historical approaches.
She is a member of the University of Liverpool–based feminist research collective Landscape Gender Environment and the editorial team of the Women’s History Network Journal.