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Ellen MacEachen

ResearcherSchool of Public Health SciencesUniversity of Waterloo

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Ellen MacEachen

Researcher

School of Public Health Sciences

Health Sciences

University of Waterloo

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

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Has led research grants, which requires an independent research appointment. Ask their department whether they supervise graduate students.
30 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 8 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 7 research grants (4 CIHR, 3 SSHRC), most recently in 2025.
Supervised 1 trainee who won CIHR awards, most recently in 2024.

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Publications

675

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Research

Occupational Health Coronaviris Disease Transmission Gig Couriers Intervention At-Home Work Digital Service Work Employment Standards

Latest papers

The impact of staffing structures in long-term care homes on the quality of work-life and work outcomes of care-workers: A narrative scoping review
International Journal of Nursing Studies · 2026 · senior author
Capturing the Perspectives of “Laypeople” on Policy Effectiveness: Employers’ and Precariously Employed Workers’ Suggested Improvements for the Workers’ Compensation System and Work Injury Processes
Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation · 2026 · senior author
Factors Associated with Negative Experiences and Mental Ill Health During a Workers’ Compensation Claim: A Mixed Methods Study
Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation · 2026

All 51 publications

Latest funding

At-home Digital Service Work: Examining Employment Risks in a Post-pandemic Low Wage Sector
SSHRC · 2025 · Principal investigator
$226,822
At-home digital service work in a post-COVID-19 lockdown world: mapping occupational health risks and identifying health and safety strategies
CIHR · 2024 · Nominated PI
$100,000
Working behind the closed doors: Examining policy and research needs for digital platform workers in the private households sector
SSHRC · 2024 · Co-investigator
$46,981

All 15 grants and awards

51 publications.

The impact of staffing structures in long-term care homes on the quality of work-life and work outcomes of care-workers: A narrative scoping review

Miller M, Almomani Y, Hopwood P, Haghighi P, Davis A, Littler E, Daly TJ, Foebel AD, MacEachen E

International Journal of Nursing Studies20265 citationsSenior author

DOI: 10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2025.105304

Capturing the Perspectives of “Laypeople” on Policy Effectiveness: Employers’ and Precariously Employed Workers’ Suggested Improvements for the Workers’ Compensation System and Work Injury Processes

Billias N, MacEachen E

Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation20261 citationsSenior author

DOI: 10.1007/s10926-025-10287-2

Factors Associated with Negative Experiences and Mental Ill Health During a Workers’ Compensation Claim: A Mixed Methods Study

Sanatkar S, Pritchard E, Callaway L, Cruickshank G, Grant G, Godic B, MacEachen E, Thompson J, Di Donato M, Gray S

Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation20261 citations

DOI: 10.1007/s10926-026-10364-0

Home-based telework and worker health and well-being across service occupations: A critical interpretive synthesis

Lee J, Almomani Y, Davis A, Miller M, Li P, Cockayne D, Premji S, MacEachen E

SSM: Population Health2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1016/j.ssmph.2026.101951

"If She's Anything Like Me…": Exploring the Use of Verbally-Prompted Storytelling Techniques in Research With People Living With Dementia.

Conway E, MacEachen E, Middleton L, McAiney C

Dementia2026

DOI: 10.1177/14713012261476735

How Do Self-Employed Workers Navigate Illness? A Gender-Based Analysis of Informal Support Systems

Khan TH, MacEachen E

Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1007/s10926-026-10403-w

‘How can you worry about employment and survival at the same time?’: employment and mental health among precariously employed cisgender and transgender sexual minority adult men in Toronto, Canada

Kinitz DJ, Ross LE, MacEachen E, Gesink D

Culture, Health & Sexuality20259 citations

DOI: 10.1080/13691058.2024.2408349

Unequal Occupational Conditions When Work Turns Digital: The Case of Schoolteachers

MacEachen E, Whitson J, Premji S, Aurini J, Hopwood P, Miller M, Almomani Y, Sultana I

New Solutions20252 citationsFirst author

DOI: 10.1177/10482911251360367

What Are the Determinants of the Sex/Gender Difference in Duration of Work Absence for Musculoskeletal Disorders? A Mixed-Studies Systematic Review

Stock S, Nicolakakis N, Cullen K, Dionne CE, Franche R-L, Lederer V, MacDermid JC, MacEachen E, Messing K, Nastasia I

Healthcare2025

DOI: 10.3390/healthcare13243228

The Struggle for Sustainable Return to Work Among Injured Workers in Situations of Vulnerability: Policy, Practice and the Canadian Context

Premji S, Neis B, MacEachen E, Shor G

New Solutions2025

DOI: 10.1177/10482911251317582

At-home Digital Service Work: Examining Employment Risks in a Post-pandemic Low Wage Sector

Principal investigatorSSHRC2025Insight Grants

Principal investigators: MacEachen, Ellen

$226,822

At-home digital service work in a post-COVID-19 lockdown world: mapping occupational health risks and identifying health and safety strategies

Nominated PICIHR2024Project Grant - PA: Sex and Gender in Health Research (Bridge funding)

Principal investigators: MacEachen, Ellen

Keywords: At-Home Work; Digital Service Work; Employment Standards; Low Wage; Mental Health; Occupational Health; Policy; Surveillance; Telework; Women

$100,000

Working behind the closed doors: Examining policy and research needs for digital platform workers in the private households sector

Co-investigatorSSHRC2024Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Lee, Juyeon

Keywords: gig economy; digital labour platforms; private households sector; platform-mediated domestic work; intersectionality; gender

$46,981

Training personal support workers for sustainable careers in long-term care: An in-depth examination of factors related to job expectations and retention

SupervisorCIHR2024Health System Impact Fellowships - Doctoral Central Canada 1-year

Principal investigators: Hopwood, Pamela J

Keywords: Aging; Capacity-Building; Evaluation; Health Services; Knowledge Translation; Long-Term Care; Pandemic Preparedness; Qualitative Research; Workforce Development; Workforce Retention

$35,000

Claim suppression of occupational injuries and illnesses: Connecting workers' compensation policy and practice to workers' lived experiences

Co-investigatorSSHRC2024Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Premji, Stephanie

Keywords: claim suppression; workers' compensation; occupational health and safety; injured workers; inequities

$40,001

Carbon Tax Policy Impacts on Firms and Workers

Co-investigatorSSHRC2024Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Moon, Seok Min

Keywords: environmental policy;carbon tax;firms; investment; growth; workers; wages

$62,255

PAIQ: Partnership for artificial intelligence and quality of working lives and worker well-being

Co-investigatorSSHRC2024Partnership Grants

Keywords: Artificial intelligence; machine learning; work environment; worker well-being; job quality; labour market inequities; living review; labour force data analysis; ethnographic research; integrated knowledge transfer and exchange

$20,000

Job quality and well-being in Canada: using national longitudinal data to generate insights on the new world of work

Co-investigatorSSHRC2023Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Shahidi, Faraz

Keywords: Employment; Work; Labour; Job quality; Well-being; Social inequality; Quantitative research; Longitudinal research

$69,790

Economic recovery policies for sustainable and equitable digital school teaching and tutoring in Canada and Bangladesh

Principal investigatorSSHRC2022New Frontiers in Research Fund - Special Calls

Principal investigators: MacEachen, Ellen

Keywords: school teachers digital technology occupational well-being gender urban-rural informal vs formal economy tutors

$249,625

Economic recovery policies for sustainable and equitable digital school teaching and tutoring in Canada and Bangladesh

Principal investigatorSSHRC2022New Frontiers in Research Fund - Special Calls

Principal investigators: MacEachen, Ellen

Keywords: school teachers; digital technology; occupational well-being; gender; urban-rural; informal vs formal economy; tutors

$249,125

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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Ellen MacEachen

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

The impact of staffing structures in long-term care homes on the quality of work-life and work outcomes of care-workers: A narrative scoping review

Capturing the Perspectives of “Laypeople” on Policy Effectiveness: Employers’ and Precariously Employed Workers’ Suggested Improvements for the Workers’ Compensation System and Work Injury Processes

Factors Associated with Negative Experiences and Mental Ill Health During a Workers’ Compensation Claim: A Mixed Methods Study

Home-based telework and worker health and well-being across service occupations: A critical interpretive synthesis

"If She's Anything Like Me…": Exploring the Use of Verbally-Prompted Storytelling Techniques in Research With People Living With Dementia.

How Do Self-Employed Workers Navigate Illness? A Gender-Based Analysis of Informal Support Systems

‘How can you worry about employment and survival at the same time?’: employment and mental health among precariously employed cisgender and transgender sexual minority adult men in Toronto, Canada

Unequal Occupational Conditions When Work Turns Digital: The Case of Schoolteachers

What Are the Determinants of the Sex/Gender Difference in Duration of Work Absence for Musculoskeletal Disorders? A Mixed-Studies Systematic Review

The Struggle for Sustainable Return to Work Among Injured Workers in Situations of Vulnerability: Policy, Practice and the Canadian Context

At-home Digital Service Work: Examining Employment Risks in a Post-pandemic Low Wage Sector

At-home digital service work in a post-COVID-19 lockdown world: mapping occupational health risks and identifying health and safety strategies

Working behind the closed doors: Examining policy and research needs for digital platform workers in the private households sector

Training personal support workers for sustainable careers in long-term care: An in-depth examination of factors related to job expectations and retention

Claim suppression of occupational injuries and illnesses: Connecting workers' compensation policy and practice to workers' lived experiences

Carbon Tax Policy Impacts on Firms and Workers

PAIQ: Partnership for artificial intelligence and quality of working lives and worker well-being

Job quality and well-being in Canada: using national longitudinal data to generate insights on the new world of work

Economic recovery policies for sustainable and equitable digital school teaching and tutoring in Canada and Bangladesh

Economic recovery policies for sustainable and equitable digital school teaching and tutoring in Canada and Bangladesh

Frequent collaborators

Ellen MacEachen

Shannon Majowicz

Stephanie Premji

Elena Neiterman

Ellen MacEachen

Katherine Lippel

Samantha Meyer

Laura Middleton

Carrie McAiney

Bonnie Kirsh

Dionne Gesink

Emile Tompa

Kimberley Cullen

Emile Tompa

Marie Laberge

Karen Messing

Anne Hudon

Marie Laberge

Margaret MacNeill

Paul Stolee

Veronique Boscart

Joy MacDermid