Valerie Egdell is Professor of Work and Employment at Newcastle Business School. She is an interdisciplinary researcher with a background in social gerontology, social policy, and social geography. Her research focuses on age management in the workplace; youth and older worker transitions; and dementia and the workplace. She has applied the Capability Approach to examine careers guidance practice and the scarring effects of unemployment. She has undertaken research funded by a range of funders including the European Commission, the Scottish Government and the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland

Valerie is editorial board member for the journal Ageing & Society and on the Executive Committee of the British Society of Gerontology. She is convenor of the Sustainable Working Futures Research Interest Group at Northumbria University.

Valerie has a degree in Geography from Durham University; and an MA in Human Geography Research and a PhD from Newcastle University. Her PhD examined how carers of people living with dementia mobilise their support networks and draw on their social, cultural and emotional resources.

• Age management in the workplace
• Older worker transitions
• Dementia and the workplace
• Young people's expectations of the workplace
• The Capability Approach
• The scarring effects of unemployment and/or a poor start in the labour market