| Self, belonging and social change V May Sociology 45 (3), 363-378, 2011 | 643 | 2011 |
| Connecting self to society: Belonging in a changing world V May Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013 | 410 | 2013 |
| On being agood'mother: the moral presentation of self in written life stories V May Sociology 42 (3), 470-486, 2008 | 311 | 2008 |
| Sociology of personal life V May, P Nordqvist Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019 | 186 | 2019 |
| Belonging from afar: Nostalgia, time and memory V May The sociological review 65 (2), 401-415, 2017 | 185 | 2017 |
| Ambivalence and the paradoxes of grandparenting J Mason, V May, L Clarke The Sociological Review 55 (4), 687-706, 2007 | 181 | 2007 |
| Narrative analysis and interpretative phenomenological analysis A Griffin, V May Researching society and culture 3, 441-458, 2012 | 124 | 2012 |
| Narrative identity and the re-conceptualization of lone motherhood V May Narrative Inquiry 14 (1), 169-189, 2004 | 91 | 2004 |
| Broadening the debate on creativity and dementia: A critical approach S Bellass, A Balmer, V May, J Keady, C Buse, A Capstick, L Burke, ... Dementia 18 (7-8), 2799-2820, 2019 | 90 | 2019 |
| Being there yet not interfering: The paradoxes of grandparenting V May, J Mason, L Clarke Contemporary grandparenting, 139-158, 2012 | 78 | 2012 |
| Everyday belonging and ageing: Place and generational change V May, S Muir Sociological Research Online 20 (1), 72-82, 2015 | 70 | 2015 |
| 20.Residence and Contact Disputes in Court? C Smart, V May Family Law 34, 2004 | 64* | 2004 |
| Childcare and parental work schedules: a comparison of childcare arrangements among Finnish, British and Dutch dual-earner families M Verhoef, M Tammelin, V May, A Rönkä, A Roeters Community, work & family 19 (3), 261-280, 2016 | 62 | 2016 |
| Lone motherhood in Finnish women's life stories: creating meaning in a narrative context V May Abo Academy Press, 2001 | 59 | 2001 |
| What does the duration of belonging tell us about the temporal self? V May Time & Society 25 (3), 634-651, 2016 | 58 | 2016 |
| Why can't they agree? The underlying complexity of contact and residence disputes C Smart, V May The Journal of Social Welfare & Family Law 26 (4), 347-360, 2004 | 54 | 2004 |
| Just one? Solo dining, gender and temporal belonging in public spaces K Lahad, V May Sociological Research Online 22 (2), 176-186, 2017 | 47 | 2017 |
| Lone motherhood as a category of practice V May The Sociological Review 58 (3), 429-443, 2010 | 45 | 2010 |
| Mothers’ non-standard working and childcare-related challenges: A comparison between lone and coupled mothers S Moilanen, V May, E Räikkönen, E Sevón, ML Laakso International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy 36 (1/2), 36-52, 2016 | 38 | 2016 |
| Belonging across the lifetime: Time and self in Mass Observation accounts V May The British Journal of Sociology 69 (2), 306-322, 2018 | 37 | 2018 |
