Joy is a Senior Research Associate at the Division of Health Research, Lancaster University. Her research focuses on issues of migration, gender, racism and discrimination, UK race relations, social and health inequalities, adult social care, and others.  Much of her work has focused on the positioning of nurses, care workers and domestic workers, in the NHS and the social care sector, in the UK and elsewhere, and more recently on the retention and recruitment of migrant nurses post-Brexit. She has a particular interest in social impact, public engagement and co-creation with stakeholders.