PEPR's Projects

Our research aims to improve the understanding and inclusion of people with lived experience of chronic pain and marginalization (PWLECPM) in research. Our team will explore how and in what ways engagement can be made more inclusive, safe and equitable through a series of interrelated projects.

Our Goals

Enhance the mobilization and utilization of chronic pain research for decision making in health and public policy.

Advance sociological research of chronic pain that critically highlights institutional and social power and oppression.

Facilitate the collaborative engagement of community partners and PWLECPM in all aspects of research on chronic pain, marginalization, and health equity.

Support Canadian academic and non-academic partners conducting research on chronic pain and marginalization.

Create relationships of trust between funders, policymakers, service providers, researchers, and PWLECPM.

Boost Canada’s profile as a leader in participant engagement and chronic pain research.

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Research Projects

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Interpretive synthesis of patient engagement frameworks

Exploring what is being said about patient engagement and what types of frameworks, guidelines, tools, and models exist to guide and support patient engagement.

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Situating Meaningful Engagement Within Contexts of Precarity

Examining how precarious status noncitizen populations have been incorporated within patient engagement in chronic pain research initiatives

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Weaving Indigenous Knowledge into Pain Research: Cultural Pathways to Meaningful Engagement

Developing a culturally responsive framework

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EDI Approaches to Knowledge Mobilization and Patient Engagement​

Exploring how equity, diversity, inclusion and decolonization principles are applied to knowledge mobilization and patient engagement

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Setting the Foundation through Community Consultations

Eliciting input from marginalized communities or groups both within health care and broader social settings about approaches to “patient” engagement.

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The Social Organization of Patient Engagement

Conducting an Institutional Ethnography (IE) of Participatory Engagement (ParE) that begins in the standpoint of PWLECPM and begins to identify the institutional interests underpinning pain research in Canada.

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