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Dr Clare Edge's Outputs (21)

Demands and resources in the elderly home-care job: A qualitative study in the Italian context (2024)
Journal Article
Martini, M., Viotti, S., Bacci, G., Edge, C., & Converso, D. (2024). Demands and resources in the elderly home-care job: A qualitative study in the Italian context. #Journal not on list, 31(4), 569-588. https://doi.org/10.4473/TPM31.4.9

Home-care of the elderly is often neglected among the care professions, despite the fact that it can be exposed to a high level of stress due to prolonged contact with suffering and often in solitude at home.
In the theoretical framework of the Job... Read More about Demands and resources in the elderly home-care job: A qualitative study in the Italian context.

Wellbeing of Older Women@Work: a short bite size video (2024)
Digital Artefact
Edge, C. (2024). Wellbeing of Older Women@Work: a short bite size video

This video showcases the findings from a qualitative study exploring the wellbeing of women aged 60 and over in work (funded by FoSS) and the importance of collaboration between researchers and stakeholders globally.

Digital Age video as part of FoSS (2024)
Digital Artefact
Edge, C. (2024). Digital Age video as part of FoSS

This session highlighted research through a presentation including a short film, and Q and A exploring ageing women’s experiences of the barriers to digital engagement in the workplace. Intergenerational barriers and perceptions of older women being... Read More about Digital Age video as part of FoSS.

Presentation as part of FOSS (2024)
Digital Artefact
Edge, C. (2024). Presentation as part of FOSS

This session highlighted research through a presentation including a short film, and Q and A exploring ageing women’s experiences of the barriers to digital engagement in the workplace. Intergenerational barriers and perceptions of older women being... Read More about Presentation as part of FOSS.

‘You feel a little bit invisible really’: A Thematic Analysis Exploring Self-Perceptions and Stereotypes Experienced by Working Women aged 60 and over with a focus in Lower Paid Roles (2024)
Journal Article

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 ‘You feel a little bit invisible really’: A Thematic Analysis Exploring Self-Perceptions and Stereotypes Experienced by Working Women aged 60 and over with a focus in Lower Paid Roles.

Video Full Loop DigitalAge 221024 (2024)
Digital Artefact
Edge, C. Video Full Loop DigitalAge 221024

Full launch of video 'Digital Age' and bitesize promotional video on Tech Dresses as part of the Festival for Social Sciences.

A Qualitative Study exploring the Barriers and Facilitators to Older Women’s Workplace Wellbeing in the UK (2024)
Presentation / Conference
Edge, C. (2024, June). A Qualitative Study exploring the Barriers and Facilitators to Older Women’s Workplace Wellbeing in the UK. Presented at Gender Diversity Across Europe – Devising Solutions from Interdisciplinary & Intersectoral Perspectives, Bern, Switzerland

Theory/Research Question: Recent evidence suggests life stress accumulation over the life course disproportionately negatively impacts wellbeing, cognition and health in older women (Gómez-Gallego & Gómez-García, 2019; Miller et al., 2021). Older wom... Read More about A Qualitative Study exploring the Barriers and Facilitators to Older Women’s Workplace Wellbeing in the UK.

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.

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

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.

Invited speaker to NHS England Health Champion’s Network entitled ‘Women’s Wellbeing at Work across the Lifecourse: a focus on the Menopause’.
Presentation / Conference
Edge, C. Invited speaker to NHS England Health Champion’s Network entitled ‘Women’s Wellbeing at Work across the Lifecourse: a focus on the Menopause’

I was invited to talk to a network of health champions (approximately 400 in attendance) for NHS England presenting preliminarily findings from a systematic review in progress and findings from the network I lead exploring women's workplace wellbeing... Read More about Invited speaker to NHS England Health Champion’s Network entitled ‘Women’s Wellbeing at Work across the Lifecourse: a focus on the Menopause’..