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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

These projects use the collaborative methodology and activist approach of participatory action research to empower the community. It is a model which equitably involves all partners, is grounded on experience and social history, emphasizes co-learning and knowledge sharing of the findings.

Examples include the 1999-2001 Injured Worker Participatory Research Project led by Bonnie Kirsh, and its “Making the System Better” report; the 2002 community research project initiated by Thunder Bay & District Injured Workers’ Support Group (“Connecting for Change: Injured Workers in Northwestern Ontario and the Effectiveness of Peer Support” ) and its 2008 “Poverty in Motion” study; the Injured Workers’ History Project (2005- ); Windsor’s Legacy Costs: Burden or Benefit? project; McMaster University & ONIWG 2010 “Knowledge Brokering with Injured Workers” study.

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 and articles ( search the IWC library catalogue )
  • webinars, videos and online discussions (such as Thunder Bay IW Group’s  weekly Zoom information & advocacy sessions)
  • 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 August 10, 2022

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