Dr Armstrong is a senior lecturer in the School of Computer and Security Science since 2002 and the leader of the Edith Cowan University eAgriculture research group. Her research area relates the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) to improve the sustainability of the agricultural industry sector. These research interests include geospatial data mining, wireless sensor networks and agricultural information dissemination. She worked as an agricultural scientist and also as analyst/programmer in Western Australia State government and has a PhD in Agricultural Science from University of Queensland and a Master’s of Science (Software Engineering) completed at ECU in 2002.