A full list of conference, workshop and other presentations by On the Move Partnership team members is included in our Knowledge Mobilization document available here. The presentations available online are also listed below.
2020
• Lippel, Katherine and B. Neis (2019). “Invisible Workers and Unacknowledged Risks: Strategies to Ensure Voice and Protections for the Mobile Workforce – an Example of Current Challenges for Organising around OHS.” Presentation as part of the Presentation at the International Symposium – What about the Workers? Cardiff, UK. January 29, 2020.
2019
• Fitzpatrick, Kathy (2019). “On the Move: Issues facing Newfoundland home care workers.” Keynote speaker at the National Union of Public & General Employees Home Care Meeting. Ottawa, ON. October 28, 2019
• Lippel, Katherine (2019). “Occupational health and safety challenges for the mobile workforce: policy and practice in Canadian jurisdictions.” Presentation as part of the Health and the Mobile Workforce Webinar Series organized by the Work Wellness and Disability Prevention Institute and the On the Move partnership. July 4th, 2019.
• Nourpanah, Shiva. (2019). “‘I feel all my skill is lost in this waiting’: The Challenges Facing Foreign Registered Nurses on Temporary Work Permits in Nova Scotia.” Doing Immigration Differently. 21st National Metropolis Conference. Halifax, NS. March 21-23, 2019.
• Neis, Barbara and K. Lippel (2019). “The Changing World of Work in Canada and Worker Health: Innovation Requirements for Research and Treatment.” Presentation to the International Forum XVI on Back and Neck Pain Research in Primary Cary, Quebec City, July 3-6, 2019.
• Gesualdi-Fecteau, Dalia and A. Perry (2019). “Temporary Foreign Workers: Health and Wellness.” Presentation as part of the Health and the Mobile Workforce Webinar Series organized by the Work Wellness and Disability Prevention Institute and the On the Move partnership. June 10, 2019.
• Lippel, Katherine (2019). “Workers’ compensation challenges for the mobile workforce: policy and practice in Canadian jurisdictions.” Presentation as part of the Health and the Mobile Workforce Webinar Series organized by the Work Wellness and Disability Prevention Institute and the On the Move partnership. May 30th, 2019.
• Gesualdi-Fecteau, Dalia (2019). “Who, How and How Much? Private Recruiters and the Temporary Foreign Worker Program in Canada.” Presentation to the Mobilities and Transnationalism in the 21st Century Conference, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, April 29-30, 2019.
• Perry, Adam (2019). “No white picket fences? Transnational labour migration and the affective renegotiation of ‘home’.” Presentation to the Mobilities and Transnationalism in the 21st Century Conference, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, April 29-30, 2019.
• Bedford, Shannon, L. Walters and J. Gosselin (2019). “Mobile Relationships and Motherhood: A Portrait of Newfoundland and Labrador. ” Poster presented at the Families Satellite Conference. Memorial University. St. John’s, NL. March 27-28, 2019.
• Neis, Barbara (2019). “On the Move : Employment-related geographical mobility in the Canadian context.” Presentation to the Rotary Club, Clarenville, NL. March 18, 2019.
• Vodden, Kelly, L. Butters and Community Impacts team. (2019). “The Community Impacts of E-RGM in the Clarenville-Isthmus Region .” Presentation to the Rotary Club, Clarenville, NL. March 18, 2019.
2018
• Nourpanah, Shiva (2019). “‘We are the weather-proof employees’: Labour Mobility Challenges for Temporary Foreign Nurses in Halifax.” Work, Migration and Health Forum. Toronto, ON. May 8-9, 2018.
• Perry, Adam (2019). “Negotiating ‘false hope’: Advocacy Responses to Migrant Worker Aspirations in Alberta.” Presentation to 20th National Metropolis Conference, Calgary Alberta. March 21-24, 2018.
2017
• Fitzpatrick, Kathy (2017). “Gender, interprovincial commutes and labour market inequalities: A comparison of St. John’s and Southwest Newfoundland. ” EPresented at the Canadian Research Data Centre Network Conference, Toronto, ON, November 14, 2017.
2016
• Fitzpatrick, Kathy (2016). “Southwest Newfoundland Interprovincial Home Care Workers’ Health and Safety Experiences.” Employment-Related Geographical Mobility and Workers’ Health and Access to Workers’ Compensation in Canada (panel organized by Barbara Neis) at the Advancing Research to Improve Work and Health: Canadian Association for Research on Work and Health Conference, Toronto, ON, October 16-18, 2016.
• Barber, Lachlan and Barbara Neis (2016). “On the road again: Mobility and momentum in Newfoundland and Labrador’s construction industry.” Presentation to the Canadian Association of Work and Labour Studies, Calgary Alberta. June 1, 2016.
• Barber, Lachlan (2016). “Between home and work:Towards a living heritage of labour and mobility” Presentation to the Association of Critical Heritage Studies, Montreal, Quebec. June 6, 2016.
• Barber, Lachlan (2016). “Trucks as ‘toys’: Masculinity,work and mobility in Newfoundland and Labrador.” Presentation to the American Association of Geographers, San Francisco, CA. April 1, 2016.
• Barrett, Joshua (2016). “Money Matters: Mobile Workforces and Local Economic Development in Source Communities.” Presentation to the Canadian Rural Revitalization Foundation Annual Conference, Quelph, Ontario. October 14, 2016
• Barrett, Joshua. (2016). “Social Development and Source Communities: How Mobile Workers Spend Time in their Permanent Place of Residence.” Canadian Association of Geographers Annual Conference. Halifax, NS. June 3, 2016
• Barrett, Joshua (2016). “ Regional Sustainability in a Mobile World: Reflections from Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.” Presentation to the Regional Studies Association Annual Conference, Graz, Austria. April 2016.
2015
• Barber, Lachlan (2015). “Special Projects, Extended Commuting and the Precarious Production of Value in Newfoundland and Labrador.” Presentation to the Canadian Association of Work and Labour Studies, Ottawa, ON. June 5, 2015. (Presented by Barbara Neis).
• Fitzpatrick, Kathy (2015). “Rhythms of Newfoundland Home Care Workershttps://www.onthemovepartnership.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2020/03/K-Fitzpatrick-Rhythms-of-Newfoundland-Home-Care-Workers-OTM-Meeting-May-31-2015.pdf.” Presentation to the On the Move Partnership Team Meeting, Gatineau, Quebec, May 31-June 2, 2015.
• Barber, Lachlan (2015). “Who meets the mobility imperative? Uneven engagements with Employment-Related Geographical Mobility in Newfoundland and Labrador’s industrial construction workforce.” Presentation to the Canadian Association of Geographers, Vancouver, BC. June 5, 2015.
• Barrett, Joshua. (2015). “Commuters and Communities: How Employment Mobility Affects Community Development in Source Communities.” Canadian Rural Revitalization Foundation’s Building Resilience Conference. Summerside, PE. September 17, 2015.
• Barrett, Joshua (2015). “Resource town to no towns?: The evolution of commute work from the 1950s to present and how it impacts communities.” Presentation to the Canadian Sociological Association Meetings, Ottawa, Ontario. June 5, 2015.
• Barrett, Joshua. (2015). “Commuters and Communities: How Employment Mobility Affects Community Development in Source Communities.” On the Move Partenrship 2nd Team meeting, Gatineau, Quebec. May 31, 2015.
2013
• Fitzpatrick, Kathy (2013). “On the Commute and In the Home: Safety Issues Facing NL Home Care Workers.” Canadian Association of Geographers Annual Conference, St. John’s, NL August 11-15, 2013.