Joy White teaches Research Methods and Media and Social Change: Race, Class and Ethnicity, Internet, Democracy and Society and Creative Entrepreneurship at the University of Bedfordshire.

Joy writes and researches on a range of themes including: social mobility, urban marginality, youth violence, mental health/wellbeing and urban music.

Publications include Terraformed: Young Black Lives in the Inner City(Repeater, 2020), and Urban Music and Entrepreneurship: Beats, Rhymes and Young People’s Enterprise(Routledge, 2017).