BC Environmental and Occupational Health Research Network

Research Training Awards are intended to enable highly qualified Masters and PhD students to undertake full-time research training with a focus on preventing and/or reducing occupational illness, injury and disability in British Columbia.  Research projects must address WorkSafeBC’s current research priorities to be eligible for consideration.

There are two sets of awards available to highly qualified graduate students at the master’s and doctoral level, who are undertaking full time research on the prevention and/or treatment of occupational illness, injury and disability:

1. WorkSafeBC Research Training Awards administered through the WorkSafeBC Research Secretariat,
2. MSFHR/WorkSafeBC Research Training Awards administered by the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research (MSFHR).

Please be reminded that the research project applications whose themes are related to health research and eligible for funding under the MSFHR/WorkSafeBC Research Training Awards should be submitted to MSFHR.  (Prospective applicants are advised to check the MSFHR website for information on its competition and deadlines.) WorkSafeBC’s Research Training Awards will only consider those projects whose themes are not eligible under MSFHR/WorkSafeBC Research Training Awards but still fall under the following research priorities:

• Occupational disease, injury and health services
• Intervention research
• Compensation, disability management and return-to-work
• Changing nature of work and work environment
• Transferring research knowledge to the workplace