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Barriers and Facilitators to Older Women's Workplace Well-being: a qualitative analysis (2024)
Presentation / Conference
Edge, C. (2024, April). Barriers and Facilitators to Older Women's Workplace Well-being: a qualitative analysis. Presented at Sustainable HRM - an International Perspective, Warsaw, Poland and Online

Evidence suggests life stress accumulation over the life course disproportionately negatively impacts wellbeing, cognition and health in ageing women. Women across the life course across Europe have been shown to have more diverse and less regular e... Read More about Barriers and Facilitators to Older Women's Workplace Well-being: a qualitative analysis.

Conceptualising Older Women’s Wellbeing at Work Across the Life Course (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Edge, C., & Drew, H. (2023, September). Conceptualising Older Women’s Wellbeing at Work Across the Life Course. Paper presented at British Academy of Management Conference 2023, University of Sussex

This developmental paper outlines planned research on how women across generations of adulthood conceptualise themselves growing old and examines their experiences of externalised and internalised gendered ageism. The study also aims to explore the f... Read More about Conceptualising Older Women’s Wellbeing at Work Across the Life Course.

Emerging findings: a qualitative study of women aged 60 and over (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Edge, C. (2023, June). Emerging findings: a qualitative study of women aged 60 and over. Poster presented at Occupational Health 2023 Conference, Newcastle University

Recent evidence suggests life stress accumulation over the life course disproportionately negatively impacts wellbeing, cognition and health in older women. Older women across Europe have been shown to have more diverse and less regular employment hi... Read More about Emerging findings: a qualitative study of women aged 60 and over.

Barriers and facilitators to extended working life : a qualitative study (2022)
Book Chapter
Edge, C., Coffey, M., Cook, P., & Weinberg, A. (2022). Barriers and facilitators to extended working life : a qualitative study. In L. Fitzgerald (Ed.), Women entrepreneurs and employment : past, present and future perspectives. New York: Nova Science Publishers

Aim: To explore employee experiences of nearing or working beyond state pensionable age, and the factors enabling and inhibit them to work for longer. Specifically, the study explored the health, social, workplace and financial barriers and facilitat... Read More about Barriers and facilitators to extended working life : a qualitative study.

Building back better together (2021)
Journal Article
Edge, C. (2021). Building back better together. Psychologist (Leicester), 34, 90-91

Dr Clare Edge with a review of SICK! Festival Mindscapes.

SICK! Festival, part one (2021)
Journal Article
Edge, C., & Davenport, C. (2021). SICK! Festival, part one. Psychologist (Leicester),

Dr Clare Edge on her involvement in SICK! Festival: Mindscapes, with a contribution from Chloe Davenport, Psychology and Counselling Student at University of Salford.

Barriers & facilitators to extended working life : a focus on a predominately female ageing workforce (2020)
Journal Article
Edge, C., Coffey, M., Cook, P., & Weinberg, A. (2021). Barriers & facilitators to extended working life : a focus on a predominately female ageing workforce. Ageing and society, 41(12), 2867-2887. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0144686X2000063X

Many countries are reforming their pension systems so people stay in work for longer to improve the long-term sustainability of public finances to support an increasing older population. This research aimed to explore the factors that enable or inh... Read More about Barriers & facilitators to extended working life : a focus on a predominately female ageing workforce.

Barriers and facilitators to extended working lives in Europe : a gender focus (2017)
Journal Article
Edge, C., Cooper, A., & Coffey, M. (2017). Barriers and facilitators to extended working lives in Europe : a gender focus. Public Health Reviews, 38(2), https://doi.org/10.1186/s40985-017-0053-8

Background: There is a global imperative to respond to the challenge of a growing ‘old-age dependency ratio’ by ensuring the workforce is healthy enough to remain in work for longer. Currently more than half of older workers leave before the default... Read More about Barriers and facilitators to extended working lives in Europe : a gender focus.

Ageing, health and retirement choices in a diverse workforce : a case study of a large private sector retail organisation
Thesis
Edge, C. (in press). Ageing, health and retirement choices in a diverse workforce : a case study of a large private sector retail organisation. (Thesis). University of Salford

State pension age is due to rise to 68 years in the UK for both men and women by 2046 and the statutory retirement age has been removed. Organisations need to better adapt to the needs of their older employees. Research suggests that a growing number... Read More about Ageing, health and retirement choices in a diverse workforce : a case study of a large private sector retail organisation.