University Research Professor, Department of Sociology
Memorial University of Newfoundland, 232 Prince Phillip Drive, St. John’s, NL Canada
bneis@mun.ca
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- Former President of the Canadian Association for Research on Work and Health, 2012-2014
- Trudeau Foundation Fellow, 2006-2009
- Principal Investigator with the Community-University Research for Recovery Alliance http://www.curra.ca/
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- Senior Research Associate in the SafetyNet Centre for Occupational Health and Safety Research at Memorial University
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
- Project Director, 7-year Partnership (SSHRC): On the Move: Employment-Related Geographical Mobility in the Canadian Context, http://www.onthemovepartnership.ca/people/co-investigators/barbara-neis /
- Co-Investigator, theme co-lead and member, Research Management Committee of the Marine, Environmental, Observation, Prediction and Response Network of Centres of Excellence
- Co-Chair of the Newfoundland node, SSHRC-funded Centre for Research on Work Disability Policy
- Co-Principal Investigator for a WorkSafe BC Project on preventing occupational disease
- Research interests: Maritime sociology, Sociology of work, Gender and society, Occupational Health and Safety, Local Ecological Knowledge and Science, Political economy, Employment-related geographical mobility
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- Human capital and Migration
- Governance
- Natural Resources
- Research and Exchange
- Publications
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Memorial University
Vanier Institute
Yaffle
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