Research

Participants needed for a study on at-home digital service workers

October 15, 2026

The University of Waterloo School is conducting a study about online work and health of home-based digital service workers. Do you: Do work that involves talking with customers? Is your work online? If this sounds like you and you are interested in…

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Participants needed for study on workplace injuries and illnesses

October 9, 2026

Have you had a work-related injury or illness that forced you to miss work anytime within the last 3 years? Participate in a 1-2 hour interview & receive $50 for your participation. Interviews (over zoom, phone or in person) will be audio…

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Research study on family impacts of work injury/illness seeks participants

January 26, 2026

The Thunder Bay Injured Workers is partnering with Lakehead University to document the experiences of family members of injured workers following work-related injury or illness. The study is looking for family members of injured workers who are (or have been) off work…

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New research project on claims suppression

April 6, 2025

[Oct. 9, 2026 update: The McMaster research team has issued a call for participants for a new phase (2) of their project. See a presentation on the research findings from Phase 1.] Claims suppression (employer actions to discourage or hinder appropriate reporting…

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Researchers looking for digital platform workers in the private household sector

October 21, 2024

In recent decades, law and policy reform has become increasingly based on what “research shows” rather than what seems fair and just. The School of Public Health Sciences at the University of Waterloo has published research on many issues of importance the…

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Who killed Sir William?

July 1, 2024

The recently released Who Killed Sir William delivers an engrossing, frank appraisal of a community-university research alliance (CURA) project, the Research Action Alliance on the Consequences of Work Injury (RAACWI) from its origins in 2003 to completion in 2012. The collaborative project,…

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Opportunity for experienced practitioners to participate in survey on work-related suicide

December 7, 2023

Researchers at the University of Ottawa have begun a study of work-related suicide among Canadian workers. Many of us in the injured worker community have met workers who have contemplated taking their own lives or know people who have done so. The…

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Calling on injured workers to take part in Human Rights Commission survey on poverty

November 18, 2022

The Ontario Human Rights Commission is doing a survey of people who are experiencing poverty, or have experienced poverty in the past, and also family members, friends or service providers who know someone who has experienced poverty. This is part of a…

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University of Waterloo seeks injured workers for study on retirement & poverty

October 17, 2022

A University of Waterloo-based study focused on injured worker poverty in retirement years would like to hear from injured workers who have engaged with the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board’s Loss of Retirement Income (LRI) benefits. As a part of their investigation,…

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Remembering Katherine Lippel

October 5, 2021

Injured Workers Community Legal Clinic was saddened to learn of the death of Dr Katherine Lippel, Distinguished Research Chair in Occupational Health & Safety Law at the University of Ottawa, widely respected for her commitment to employment law that advanced workers’…

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