All Stories

  1. Why so serious? The use of menopause humour in UK workplaces

    Article • Employee Relations The International Journal, September 2025, Emerald

    Vanessa Beck

  2. Women’s experiences of menopause at work and performance management

    Article • Organization, October 2019, SAGE Publications

    Vanessa Beck

  3. The remains of the taboo: experiences, attitudes, and knowledge about menopause in the workplace

    Article • Climacteric, September 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Vanessa Beck

  4. The post-re/productive: researching the menopause

    Article • Journal of Organizational Ethnography, September 2018, Emerald

    Vanessa Beck

  5. From annual ritual to daily routine: continuous performance management and its consequences for employment security

    Article • New Technology Work and Employment, March 2018, Wiley

    Vanessa Beck

  6. Capabilities and Choices of Vulnerable, Long-Term Unemployed Individuals

    Article • Work Employment and Society, February 2017, SAGE Publications

    Vanessa Beck

  7. Foreword

    Article • Work Employment and Society, July 2016, SAGE Publications

    Vanessa Beck

  8. Work, employment and society sans frontières: extending and deepening our reach

    Article • Work Employment and Society, March 2016, SAGE Publications

    Vanessa Beck, Professor Shireen Kanji

  9. Older Workers in an Ageing Society: Critical Topics in Research and Policy Edited by PhilipTaylor Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2013. ISBN: 978-1-78254-009-0; £83.00 (hbk).

    Article • Social Policy and Administration, November 2015, Wiley

    Vanessa Beck

  10. Why retirement is not what it used to be

    Article • Industrial Relations Journal, November 2015, Wiley

    Vanessa Beck

  11. Learning providers’ work with NEET young people

    Article • Journal of Vocational Education and Training, September 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Vanessa Beck

  12. A decade of NEET policy in England

    Article • Journal of Education and Work, June 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Vanessa Beck

  13. The (performance) management of retirement and the limits of individual choice

    Article • Work Employment and Society, March 2015, SAGE Publications

    Vanessa Beck

  14. Ageing By Chris Phillipson Cambridge: Polity Press, 2013. ISBN 978-0-7456-3084-7; £50.00 (hbk).

    Article • Social Policy and Administration, November 2014, Wiley

    Vanessa Beck

  15. Employers’ use of older workers in the recession

    Article • Employee Relations The International Journal, April 2013, Emerald

    Vanessa Beck

  16. Employers' views of learning and training for an ageing workforce

    Article • Management Learning, December 2012, SAGE Publications

    Vanessa Beck

  17. Older and younger workers: the equalling effects of health

    Article • Education + Training, September 2012, Emerald

    Vanessa Beck

  18. The Importance of Health in Promoting Employability in the East Midlands

    Article • Sociological Research Online, February 2011, SAGE Publications

    Vanessa Beck

  19. Harold Conrad, Viktoria Heindorf and Franz Waldenberger (eds.) (2008), Human Resource Management in Ageing Societies: Perspectives from Japan and Germany. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. £52.50, pp. 208, hbk.

    Article • Journal of Social Policy, August 2009, Cambridge University Press

    Vanessa Beck

  20. Virpi Timonen (2008), Ageing Societies: A Comparative Introduction. Maidenhead: McGraw-Hill. £21.99, pp. 224, pbk.

    Article • Journal of Social Policy, March 2009, Cambridge University Press

    Vanessa Beck

  21. Unemployment as a community of practice

    Article • November 2007, Taylor & Francis

    Vanessa Beck

  22. Gender, ‘race’ and young people’s perceptions of their opportunities

    Article • British Educational Research Journal, October 2006, Wiley

    Vanessa Beck

  23. Male and female resistance to crossing gender lines in apprenticeships in England and Wales

    Article • Journal of Education and Work, July 2006, Taylor & Francis

    Vanessa Beck

  24. The gendered nature of apprenticeship

    Article • Education + Training, May 2005, Emerald

    Vanessa Beck

  25. Resilience and unemployment: A case study of East German women

    Article • German Politics, March 2005, Taylor & Francis

    Vanessa Beck