Funder’s Website

The funder’s website can be found HERE.

Overview

The WSIB Research and Grants Program aims to enhance workplace injury and illness insurance system outcomes by supporting innovative proposals that help advance our strategic mandate. The proposals funded through the program will help to strengthen Ontario’s workers’ compensation system and deliver on our priority of making Ontario a safer place to work.

The WSIB’s 2025 Research and Grants Program will focus on applied research that can help make Ontario the safest place to work. Three considerations for the competition include:

  1. how we work
  2. how we approach health and safety
  3. how we support return-to-work and recovery

The Research and Grants Program is committed to supporting the WSIB’s strategic priority of effective management through the operating practices of the program on an ongoing basis.

Applicants are encouraged to submit proposals that align to the topics of interest identified in the Research and Grants agenda. Highly practical research and training proposals aligned to the four primary considerations are also accepted.

*Note: we are using a new grant management system for our application process this year. For more information about the program and how to register for the grant management system, please visit our website.

Eligibility Criteria

Expert researchers affiliated with an eligible applicant organization:
Publicly-funded universities or colleges
Public hospitals with a specialized research area
Not-for-profit or registered charitable organizations with the capability and capacity to conduct research
Canadian non-governmental organizations with the capability and capacity to conduct research
Other organizations that have the capability and capacity to conduct research and are not private

Internal Contacts

Potential applicants are encouraged to discuss this funding opportunity with their Faculty Research Facilitator.

Deadlines

Faculty Deadline Consult your Faculty Research Facilitator.
OVPRI Deadline (Approval Form and Application) October 4, 2023
Submission to Sponsor October 11, 2024

Submitting Your Application

  • Step 1) Submit an internal Carleton Approval Form
    Submit an internal Approval Form through our central awards management database CUResearch:
    https://ovpri.research.carleton.ca/Romeo.Researcher/Administrator/Default.aspx
    For a user’s guide on submitting an Approval Form, click HERE.
  • Step 2) Submit an external application to the granting agency
    Submit an external application to the corresponding grant or award agency. To navigate to the funder’s website, click HERE