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Research
Latest papers
Workplace Injuries and Return-to-Work Challenges Among Immigrants in Canada: Implications for Occupational Health Policy and Practice.
New solutions : a journal of environmental and occupational health policy : NS · 2026
Mental health challenges of recent immigrants in precarious work environments - a qualitative study.
Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024 · first author
Exploring community- and systemic-level gender-based violence in visible minority women across five countries from an intersectionality lens: protocol for a mixed-methods systematic review.
BMJ open · 2024
Latest funding
- $60,853
Supporting Employers in the Safe Work Integration of New Immigrants
SSHRC · 2025 · Principal investigator
- $61,806
Une histoire littéraire mondiale de la presse en français (1830-1930)
SSHRC · 2024 · Co-investigator
- $44,158
Unpacking Systemic Barriers Faced by Internationally Trained Health Professionals in their Pursuit of Alternative Careers
SSHRC · 2024 · Co-investigator
12 publications.
Workplace Injuries and Return-to-Work Challenges Among Immigrants in Canada: Implications for Occupational Health Policy and Practice.
Chen SP, Shankar J, Turin TC, Joseph S, Narayanan R, Suleman Z, Asante B, Kharat P
Mental health challenges of recent immigrants in precarious work environments - a qualitative study.
Shankar J, Chen SP, Lai DWL, Joseph S, Narayanan R, Suleman Z, Ali HMA, Kharat P
Exploring community- and systemic-level gender-based violence in visible minority women across five countries from an intersectionality lens: protocol for a mixed-methods systematic review.
Chowdhury N, Erman D, Raihan M, Marshall Z, Datta R, Aghajafari F, Shankar J, Sehgal K, Rashid R, Turin TC
Participatory Action Research Among People With Serious Mental Illness: A Scoping Review.
Thomas E, Benjamin-Thomas TE, Sithambaram A, Shankar J, Chen SP
"It's Just a Checklist": Examining the Needs of Occupational Health and Safety Training for New Immigrant Workers in Canada.
Adams A, Joe C, Klinger N, Laforest E, Shankar J, Chen SP
Highly Educated Immigrant Workers' Perspectives of Occupational Health and Safety and Work Conditions That Challenge Work Safety.
Shankar J, Lai D, Chen SP, Turin TC, Joseph S, Mi E
Immigrant women's food choices in pregnancy: perspectives from women of Chinese origin in Canada.
Higginbottom GMA, Vallianatos H, Shankar J, Safipour J, Davey C
Care Experiences of Adults With a Dual Diagnosis and Their Family Caregivers.
Nicholas DB, Calhoun A, McLaughlin AM, Shankar J, Kreitzer L, Uzande M
The experiences of emergency department use by street-involved youth: Perspectives of health care and community service providers.
Nicholas DB, Newton AS, Kilmer C, Calhoun A, deJong-Berg MA, Dong K, Hamilton F, McLaughlin AM, Shankar J, Smyth P
The Experiences and Perceptions of Street-Involved Youth Regarding Emergency Department Services.
Nicholas DB, Newton AS, Calhoun A, Dong K, deJong-Berg MA, Hamilton F, Kilmer C, McLaughlin AM, Shankar J
Supporting Employers in the Safe Work Integration of New Immigrants
Principal investigators: Shankar, Janki
Keywords: Employers; New immigrant workers; Safe Work Integration
Une histoire littéraire mondiale de la presse en français (1830-1930)
Principal investigators: Pinson, Guillaume
Keywords: Littérature; journalisme; genres médiatiques; culture médiatique; histoire mondiale; transferts et circulations
Unpacking Systemic Barriers Faced by Internationally Trained Health Professionals in their Pursuit of Alternative Careers
Principal investigators: Chowdhury, Tanvir
Keywords: Job Market; Internationally Trained; Health Professionals; Alternative Careers; Newcomer; Immigrant
Job retention and career development for people with serious mental illnesses: A Participatory Capacity Building project
Principal investigators: Chen, Shu-Ping
Keywords: employment; job retention; job advancement; serious mental illness
Occupational safety and workers' rights among new working age immigrants: The role of settlement organizations
Principal investigators: Chen, Shu-Ping
Keywords: workers' rights; occupational safety; immigrants; social justice; empowerment
Immigrant worker, service provider and employer perspectives on occupational safety and work conditions of immigrant workers and their return-to-work experiences after occupational injury or illness
Principal investigators: Shankar, Janki
Keywords: occupational safety; return to work; illness; injury; immigrants
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Shu-Ping Chen and Janki Shankar: 5 shared papers
- Ruksana Rashid and Nashit Chowdhury: 5 shared papers
- Kathryn Dong and Janki Shankar: 2 shared papers
- Nashit Chowdhury and Mohammad Raihan: 2 shared papers
- Fariba Aghajafari and Ruksana Rashid: 1 shared paper
- Fariba Aghajafari and Nashit Chowdhury: 1 shared paper
- Fariba Aghajafari and Mohammad Raihan: 1 shared paper
- Fariba Aghajafari and Ranjan Datta: 1 shared paper
- Fariba Aghajafari and Janki Shankar: 1 shared paper
- Fariba Aghajafari and Zack Marshall: 1 shared paper
- Ruksana Rashid and Mohammad Raihan: 1 shared paper
- Ruksana Rashid and Ranjan Datta: 1 shared paper
- Ruksana Rashid and Janki Shankar: 1 shared paper
- Ruksana Rashid and Zack Marshall: 1 shared paper
- Nashit Chowdhury and Ranjan Datta: 1 shared paper
- Nashit Chowdhury and Janki Shankar: 1 shared paper
- Nashit Chowdhury and Zack Marshall: 1 shared paper
- Mohammad Raihan and Janki Shankar: 1 shared paper
- Ranjan Datta and Janki Shankar: 1 shared paper
- Janki Shankar and Zack Marshall: 1 shared paper
- Janki Shankar and Linda Kreitzer: 1 shared paper
- Community Health Sciences
- Social Work
- Occupational Therapy
- Humanities
- Other
Co-authors at University of Calgary, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.
Shu-Ping Chen
Occupational Therapy
5 shared papers, latest 2026
Kathryn Dong
Faculty
2 shared papers, latest 2016
Linda Kreitzer
Social Work
1 shared papers, latest 2017
Zack Marshall
Faculty
1 shared papers, latest 2024
Nashit Chowdhury
Community Health Sciences
1 shared papers, latest 2024
Mohammad Raihan
Community Health Sciences
1 shared papers, latest 2024
Ranjan Datta
Humanities
1 shared papers, latest 2024
Ruksana Rashid
Community Health Sciences
1 shared papers, latest 2024
Fariba Aghajafari
Faculty
1 shared papers, latest 2024
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