Joseph is Lecturer in the Graduate Tourism program and Director, Australia & International Tourism Research Unit (AITRU), Faculty of Arts. He recently become a board member of the International Geography Union (IGU) Tourism Commission also know as Commission on the Geography of Tourism and Leisure and Global Change. He is also a representative on the Faculty of Arts Early Career Research (ECR) Network Committee and has served on a number of other committees and research student assessment panels.

Joseph is also 2016 Visiting Research Fellow, Wakayama University, Japan. Joseph’s doctorate research project was titled Tourism and the Neotraditional Modernity: An Ethnography of Tourism & Traditional Culture in Vanuatu.