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Home / Workers’ Compensation / Research and Education

Research and Education

Ontario’s injured worker community have long recognized the need for research into workers’ compensation on topics they define as important and in which they also participate.

Participatory research projects

  • focus on issues that affect injured workers and their families
  • value lived experiences (qualitative data) in addition to statistical, quantitative data
  • identify gaps in current research

Participatory action research uses the collaborative , activist approach for community empowerment. It equitably involves all partners, emphasizes co-learning and knowledge sharing.

Examples include the 2020 Thunder Bay & District Injured Workers’ Support Group (TBIW) / Lakehead University Workers’ Compensation Experience Study; McMaster University & ONIWG’s 2010 “Knowledge Brokering with Injured Workers” study; TBIW’s 2008 “Poverty in Motion” study; the Injured Workers’ History Project (2005- ); 1999-2001 Injured Worker Participatory Research Project led by Bonnie Kirsh, and its “Making the System Better” report.

Education and workshops

Research findings and public education on workers’ compensation and injured workers’ rights are shared in many ways:

  • Injured Workers Speakers Schools , training on the workers’ compensation system, leadership and self-advocacy, held around the provinceThunder Bay & DIstrict Injured Woker Support Group logo
  • published reports & articles
  • webinars, videos and online discussions by injured workers’ groups and community legal clinics (such as Thunder Bay IW Group’s  weekly Tuesday sessions; IWC’s monthly Wednesday iw group meetings)
  • theatre (such as “Easy Money” on stigma research or the Meredith play on origins and principles or workers’ comp
  • community forums and informal discussions at meetings organized by injured workers’ groups, community legal clinics, labour, Bancroft, RAACWI etc
  • workshops and conferences

Updated April 10, 2024

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