After marriage and four children, Joan Davies took a degree in Politics. Joan was appointed as a Senior Lecturer at Sandhurst Military Academy, making history as the first woman lecturer. She was responsible for the pastoral care for overseas students and cadets, which was a fascinating challenge.

Joan was interested in politics since schooldays, becoming a District Councillor, and standing for Parliament and the European Parliament. She believes that caring for and speaking for the interests of your fellow citizens is a role well suited to women.

Over and above party politics, Joan campaigns for electoral reform, following in the footsteps of great women like Nancy Seear and Enid Lakeman. Joan believes this to be vitally necessary for Britain to become a valid democracy. She was first woman Chairman of the Electoral Reform Society.

As a member of the Anti-Slavery Society and Amnesty International, Joan became an activist and represented ASI at International Fora, such as the annual Conference on World Affairs in Colorado (over several years) and the UN Conference on Population and Development in Cairo 1992, where she made a presentation on the perils of early marriage (her poster "Children shouldn't have Children" went world-wide).

Through Anti-Slavery International Joan first encountered one of the world's dark secrets: Female Genital Mutilation, shrugged off by UN as mere traditional practice, and meeting with sheer disbelief in Britain and Europe. She formed a British Support Group of the Inter-African Committee against Harmful Traditional practices. Joan had some success with the Commonwealth Secretariat for whom she wrote papers for distribution to professional bodies and special conferences.

Joan is currently involved in seeking influential allies in challenging fundamentalist reinterpretations of religions, and their misuse of religious power, as inimical to Human Rights.