Your Fertile Years - What You Need to Know to Make Informed Choices by Professor Joyce Harper
Your Fertile Years - What You Need to Know to Make Informed Choices by Professor Joyce Harper

Your Fertile Years

When Joyce was in her twenties she started working in the field of fertility and she often had conversations with friends about their bodies and their fertility.  At this time she read ‘Ourbody, ourselves’ and felt it was a book that every woman should read…

Your Joyful Years

In Your Joyful Years, Professor Joyce Harper provides an empowering, evidence-based guide to thriving beyond 50. Moving past the menopause, this book reframes later life as a vibrant new beginning—a time to rediscover purpose and prioritise self-care. Combining 40 years of scientific expertise with the candid wisdom of 50 inspiring women, Professor Harper offers a reassuring roadmap to health, happiness, and living authentically. This is the essential second book in her life-stage trilogy, proving that your best years are still to come.

Author, Educator,
Academic, Scientist, Podcaster, Public Speaker

Joyce is passionate about empowering women to live their best lives through good health and happiness.

She is an internationally renowned, award-winning scientist. She is Professor of Reproductive Science at University College London, Institute for Women’s Health. Her publications can be accessed here.

Her last book, Your Fertile Years, published by Sheldon Press, 2021, explores women’s health from puberty to menopause. She is working on her next book, drawing on insights from interviews with 52 inspiring women over the age of 50, who share their wisdom on health and happiness. 

Professor Joyce Harper of University College London

Her podcast, Why didn’t anyone tell me this? is listened to in over 90 countries.

Joyce is co-founder and co-lead of the UK Menopause Education and Support Programme (InTune), the International Reproductive Health Education Collaboration, and SWIMHER, a research network looking at women’s health and cold-water swimming.

She’s worked in the fields of fertility, genetics, reproductive health and women’s health for almost 40 years.  She is passionate about education and discussion of all aspects of women’s health but especially at three key stages: the menstrual cycle, the fertile years and menopause.

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  • Joyce is running a number of retreats in 2025 – got to Talks and Events for more details.
  • Joyce is an ambassador for Wellbeing of Women, Pads on a Roll, and This Girl Can
  • Joyce has run a monthly, free women’s group, The Purple Tent, in her hometown, Saffron Walden, since 2016.
  • She is the mother of three sons born through IVF.
  • Joyce talks at conferences, festivals, retreats and to companies about reproductive health. She regularly appears in the press, on radio and TV.
  • To book Joyce for an appearance or talk, please contact her below. A list of recent appearances can be found under talks and events.
My Podcast

Why didn’t anyone tell me this?

This podcast is about health education with an emphasis on reproductive health. We do not cover these topics enough in school or beyond.  Joyce Harper and her guests want to give you the tools to empower you to live a healthy, happy and fulfilled life. And on the way, we will debunk some of the myths around our health.

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Your Fertile Years - What You Need to Know to Make Informed Choices by Professor Joyce Harper
What You Need to Know to Make Informed Choices

Your Fertile Years

When Joyce was in her twenties she started working in the field of fertility and she often had conversations with friends about their bodies and their fertility.  At this time she read ‘Ourbody, Ourselves’ and felt it was a book that every woman should read, but she also felt that it did not cover all the topics a woman might want to know about.
Joyce started writing a book about women’s health in 1987.  At that time she knew a lot about fertility but was not an expert in the other key women’s health topics.  The idea of the book has been bubbling in Joyce’s thoughts for the last thirty years.
But first Joyce developed Global Women Connected. Through the years of working on Global Women Connected, Joyce has come to realise the topics that women want to know about.  But she also realised the limitations of a web site and so in 2016, she decided that she should finally write the book she thought of 30 years ago.

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Your Fertile Years

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Global Women Connected

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Embryology & PGD Academy

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Reproductive Health Education

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Reproductive Health at Work

Reproductive Health at Work

Academic & Scientific Work

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Talks & Events

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The Big Swim: why women swim

The Big Swim: why women swim

What are you doing for International Women’s Day? One thing I will be doing is heading down to Brighton to meet up with some amazing women. We will be talking about our books and research on cold water swimming in a meet the author event and then taking part in The...