Acknowledgements

The On the Move Partnership was supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council through its Partnership Grants funding opportunity (Application ID 895-2011-1019), InnovateNL, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, and numerous community partners. This book was also partially supported by the Policy and Practice in Return-to-Work After a Work Injury: Challenging Circumstances and Innovative Solutions research partnership funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (895-2018-4009), the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (159064), the University of Ottawa’s Office of the Vice-President, Research and Innovation, and multiple universities and partners.

This book and the core research on which it draws would not have been possible without the insight, guidance, and careful engagement of Katherine Lippel in her roles as the policy component lead of the On the Move Partnership for almost ten years and as lead researcher and author of the original partial manuscript that the coauthors have developed since her death. There was no more accomplished and knowledgeable Canadian sociolegal researcher in the areas of occupational safety and health and workers’ compensation in Canada at the time of her passing. As coauthors, we have done our best to remain true to her high standards, methodological rigour, and deep sociolegal insights. We can only hope she would approve of the final product.

On the Move coinvestigator David Walters worked with Katherine on conceptualizing the relationship between employment-related geographical mobility and occupational safety and health and its implications for policy effectiveness on some of the early research and coauthored at least one publication. Many other On the Move researchers, graduate students, and postdoctoral fellows did focused work on occupational safety and health (OSH) policy and work-related mobility that resulted in publications we have cited in this book. We thank these researchers for their engagement with On the Move and relevant topics. Janet Oliver was the project manager for On the Move and, in that role, managed the finances and helped organize many of the key meetings and dialogues that helped On the Move achieve its goals and objectives. Lesley Butler provided tremendous editorial support in formatting and proofing the manuscript. Ellen MacEachen and Stéphanie Premji took over responsibility for Katherine’s Policy and Practice in Return-to-Work After a Work Injury partnership grant after she passed and continue to lead that initiative. We thank them for providing some financial support from that partnership to help carry the manuscript over the finish line and for support for some of the research on return to work within the mobile labour force cited in this book. We also thank Monique Lefebvre, project manager for Policy and Practice in Return-to-Work After a Work Injury, for her dedication to this project. Fred Sweet provided gentle and engaged support in his role as friend and as the late Katherine Lippel’s partner and manager of her estate. Connor Houlihan at Athabasca University Press demonstrated amazing patience while we found a way to turn a rough and incomplete draft report into a finished book. Geneviève Richard, Majda Lamkhioued, Guillaume Trifiro, Jérôme Bélanger, and Jean-Paul Dautel did some of the background legal research needed to update the policy and case law information from the original research. The two anonymous reviewers, along with Karyn Wisselink at AU Press and copyeditor Danny Constantino, provided extremely helpful comments and suggestions for improvements to the original submitted draft. Thanks to all.