Tyldesley is President of Bolton Archaeology and Egyptology Society and a former trustee of the Egypt Exploration Society. She is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA) and a Research Associate of the Manchester Museum. In 2011 Tyldesley was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Bolton in recognition of her contribution to education. Mumford the Mummy is a series of lessons aimed at Key Stage 2 primary school children, freely available via Nearpod. She has devised, writes, directs and teaches a suite of on-line Short Courses in Egyptology, and has created several free online Egyptology courses (MOOCS), working in conjunction with the Manchester Museum. She is currently Professor of Egyptology in the Department of Classics, Ancient History, Archaeology and Egyptology where she is tutor and Programme Director of the three-year online Certificate in Egyptology programme, the two-year online Diploma in Egyptology programme and the two year part-time online MA in Egyptology programme. In 2007 Tyldesley joined the University of Manchester, working as a joint appointment between the Manchester Museum and the Faculty of Life Sciences. Philippa works as a civil servant, and her son Jack is a freelance wall-painting conservator who also works for the Royal Institute of British Architects. Tyldesley has 2 children, Philippa and Jack. Tyldesley then worked as a freelance Egyptologist/archaeologist writing books, working with television companies, and teaching in further and higher education and online. Tyldesley then joined the staff of Liverpool University, teaching Prehistoric Archaeology.

Her thesis was written about Mousterian bifaces (handaxes) in Northern Europe.

In 1986 she was awarded a doctorate in Prehistoric Archaeology from Oxford University. Her doctoral studies were undertaken at Oxford University first at St Anne's College then, following the award of a scholarship, at St Cross College. In 1981 she earned a first-class honours degree in the archaeology of the Eastern Mediterranean from Liverpool University. Tyldesley was born in Bolton, Lancashire and attended Bolton School. Joyce Ann Tyldesley (born 25 February 1960) is a British archaeologist and Egyptologist, academic, writer and broadcaster who specialises in the women of ancient Egypt.

Joyce Tyldesley holding a replica Nefertiti bust.

Daughters of Isis by Joyce A. Tyldesley